The Process of Conducting Educational Research * Definition of Research and Research Process * Steps in the Process of Research * Characteristics of Quantitative and Qualitative Research * Types of Research Designs * Skills Needed in Designing and Conducting Research

1. The Process
of Conducting
Education
Research
SEMINAR IN THESIS WRITING
1st Trimester AY 2020-2021
Presented by:
CARLO JUSTINO J. LUNA
RICARDO V. MALLARI

2. THE MATHEMATICIAN’S PRAYER
Heavenly Father, thank You for all the blessings You gave unto us.
Add joy to the world;
Subtract evil from our lives,
Multiply the good things for us.
Divide the gifts and share them to others.
Convert badness to goodness.
Help us raise our needs to You.
Extract the roots of immoralities
and perform our different functions in life.
Tell us all that life is as easy as math.
Help us all to solve our problems.
These we ask in Jesus’ name,
the Greatest Mathematician who ever lived on earth,
Amen!

3. The Process
of Conducting
Education
Research
SEMINAR IN THESIS WRITING
1st Trimester AY 2020-2021
Presented by:
CARLO JUSTINO J. LUNA
RICARDO V. MALLARI

4. INTENDED LEARNING
OUTCOMES
• Define and describe the importance of
educational research
• Describe the steps in the process of
research
• Identify the characteristics of quantitative
and qualitative research
• Identify types of research designs
associated with quantitative and
qualitative research
• Recognize skills needed to design and
conduct research

5. RESEARCH
Using the letters in the word
what other words can you create?
WORD FACTORY

6. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Research is to see what
everybody else has seen, and to
think what nobody else has
thought.”

7. Question:
What is
Research?

8. RESEARCH
 Research is the process of discovering new
knowledge.
 Research is a systematic search for
knowledge through method of study,
observation, comparison and experiment.

9. RESEARCH
 Research is a process of systematic
inquiry that entails collection of data;
documentation of critical information; and
analysis and interpretation of that
data/information, in accordance with
suitable methodologies set by specific
professional fields and academic
disciplines.
(Hampshire College https://www.hampshire.edu/dof/what-is-research)

10. RESEARCH
 Research is a systematic inquiry to
describe, explain, predict, and control the
observed phenomenon. It involves
inductive and deductive methods.
American sociologist Earl Robert Babbie

11. RESEARCH
 Research is a process of steps used to
collect and analyze information to
increase our understanding of a topic or
issue.
John W. Creswell

12. Question:
What is the
Purpose of
Research?

13. PURPOSES OF RESEARCH
1. Exploratory
 problem that has not yet been clearly defined
 aims to gain a better understanding
2. Descriptive
 expands knowledge of a research problem by
describing its characteristics
 focuses on the ‘how’ and ‘what’, but not on the ‘why’
3. Explanatory
 is conducted to determine how variables
interact
 deals with the ‘why’ of research questions
and is therefore often based on experiments

14. Question:
What is
Research
Process?

15. RESEARCH PROCESS
“Scientific method” of inquiry
(Kerlinger, 1972; Leedy & Ormrod, 2001)
• Identify a problem that defines the
goal of research.
• Make a prediction that, if confirmed,
resolves the problem.
• Gather data relevant to this prediction.
• Analyze and interpret the data to see if
it supports the prediction and resolves
the question that initiated the research.

16. Question:
What are the
steps involved
in a research
process?

17. STEPS IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS
• Define the Research Problem
• Review of Literature
• Formulate hypothesis
• Prepare the research design
• Collect data
• Analyze the gathered information
• Interpret the results and present the final report

18. STEP 1:
Define the Research Problem
• Most important step in research
 “A problem well-defined is half-
solved.”
• Selecting a research topic
• Specifying a problem
 needs, issues, controversies
• Justifying the study
 providing evidence about the
importance of the study
• Suggesting the need to study it for
audiences
• Establish research objectives

19. Establish Research Objectives
• “If you do not know what you are looking
for, you won’t find it.”
• In establishing research objectives, the
researcher must answer the following
questions:
i. What specific information should the
project provide?
ii. If more than one type of information will be
developed from the study, which is the most
important?
iii. What are the priorities?

20. STEP 2:
Review of Literature
• Locating resources
 summaries
 books
 journal articles
 indexed publications
• Selecting resources
• Summarizing resources

21. STEP 3:
Formulate Hypothesis
• Assumptions are drawn to test its logical
or empirical consequences
• Hypothesis is guiding force of a
researcher.
• Hypothesis should be very specific and
limited to the piece of research in hand
because it must be tested.
• The role of the hypothesis is to guide the
researcher by delimiting the area of
research and to keep him on the right
track.

22. STEP 4:
Prepare the Research Design
• Outline or a conceptual structure
• Collection of relevant evidence
• There are a number of alternative
research designs. The choice will
largely depend on the
research purpose.
RESEARCH
QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH
EXPLORATORY
(Focus Group;
Observation)
QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
DESCRIPTIVE
(Survey Research)
CAUSAL
(Laboratory
Experiment; Field
Experiment)

23. STEP 5:
Collecting Data
• Selecting individuals to study
• Obtaining permissions
• Determining the methods of accessing data
• Primary information
 telephone / mobile phone interview
 mail
 online / personal interview (Quantitative)
 observation studies / focus groups
(Qualitative)
• Secondary information
 internet
 Library
• Design data collection forms (e.g.,
questionnaires, observation study forms)

24. STEP 6:
Analyze Data
• requires several closely related operations
such as establishment of categories
• includes coding, editing, tabulation, and
conducting various statistical tests
• involves drawing conclusions about the
data
• explaining the conclusions in words to
provide answers to the research
questions

25. STEP 7:
Interpretation and Report
Writing
• The researcher must submit a written
report and often make an oral
presentation.
• Writing of report includes:
 the preliminary pages
 the main text
 the end matter

26. Question:
What are the
characteristics
of research?

28. Quantitative Research Characteristics
• Describing a research problem through a description
of trends or a need for an explanation of the
relationship among variables
• Providing a major role for the literature through
suggesting the research questions to be asked and
justifying the research problem and creating a need
for the direction (purpose statement and research
questions or hypotheses) of the study

29. Quantitative Research Characteristics
• Creating purpose statements, research questions, and
hypotheses that are specific, narrow, measurable, and
observable
• Collecting numeric data from a large number of
people using instruments with preset questions and
responses

30. Quantitative Research Characteristics
• Analyzing trends, comparing groups, or relating
variables using statistical analysis, and interpreting
results by comparing them with prior predictions and
past research
• Writing the research report using standard, fixed
structures and evaluation criteria, and taking an
objective, unbiased approach

31. Qualitative Research
Characteristics
• Exploring a problem and developing
a detailed understanding of a
central phenomenon
• Having the literature review play a
minor role but justify the problem
• Stating the purpose and research
questions in a general and broad
way so as to the participants’
experiences

32. Qualitative Research
Characteristics
• Collecting data based on words
from a small number of individuals
so that the participants’ views are
obtained
• Analyzing the data for description
and themes using text analysis and
interpreting the larger meaning of
the findings

33. Qualitative Research
Characteristics
• Writing the report using flexible,
emerging structures and evaluative
criteria, and including the
researchers’ subjective reflexivity
and bias

34. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative Research Qualitative Research
Research Problem
• is used to direct the types
of questions or
hypotheses asked in the
study.
Research Problem
• is typically used to
establish the importance
of the central idea.

35. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative Research Qualitative Research
Use more closed-ended
approaches in which the
researcher identifies set response
categories (e.g., strongly agree,
strongly disagree, and so forth),
Qualitative approaches use more
open-ended approaches in
which the inquirer asks general
questions of participants, and the
participants shape the response
possibilities (e.g., in an interview
with a teacher, a qualitative
researcher might ask: What does
professional development mean
to you?)

36. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative Research Qualitative Research
The investigator relies on
statistical analysis
(mathematical analysis)
of the data, which is
typically in numeric form.
Statistics are not used to
analyze the data; instead,
the inquirer analyzes
words (e.g.,
transcriptions from
interviews) or images
(e.g., photographs)

37. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative Research Qualitative Research
Structure
• introduction, literature
review, methods, results,
and conclusion sections
Structure
• Some of these sections may be missing
(e.g., the literature review in the Shelden
et al., 2010 study)
• The format may be more of a literary
opening with a personal vignette or
passage, an unfolding story, the use of
extensive quotes from participants, and
personal reflections from the researcher.

38. Question:
What are the
types of research
designs?

40. Question:
What are the
skills needed to
design and
conduct research?

41. SKILLS NEEDED TO DESIGN AND CONDUCT
RESEARCH

42. SEMINAR IN THESIS WRITING
1st Trimester AY 2020-2021
Presented by:
CARLO JUSTINO J. LUNA
RICARDO V. MALLARI