RESEARCH DESIGN

DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH

Defined as a purposive process of gathering, analyzing, classifying, and tabulating data about prevailing conditions, practices, beliefs, process, trends, and cause-effect relationships and then making adequate and accurate interpretation about such data with statistical methods.

CASE STUDY

A type of detailed and in-depth research involving few respondents, ranging from one to a small size of less than 10, over a considerable period of time.

SURVEY RESEARCH

Used to gather relatively limited data from relatively large number of cases. It seeks to gather information about the prevailing conditions or about the variables under study.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION STUDIES

Refer to the study on the efficiency or effectiveness of policies, instruments, or the variables that may be considered.

COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Refer to comparing the result in the differences in certain characteristics according to variable considered

CORRELATIONAL STUDIES

Examine the relationship between two or more variables which are the predictor and criterion variables. One variable is X and the other variable is Y.

TRACER STUDIES

Used when one wants to follow up the development of certain conditions or particular sets of people

TRENDS AND PROJECTION

Used for projects that are forward looking and it is also called feasibility study.

DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS

Involve the gathering of information by analyzing written records and documents to solve a problem. It uses secondary data from the archives, or records.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGNS

are future-oriented type of research and it basically seeks to answer the question: “what will be?”. It is also said to the most prestigious and sophisticated method since it deals with the actual cause and effect of certain variables and/or intervention.