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Guidelines in The Selection of A Research Problem or Topic

The document provides 13 guidelines for selecting a research problem or topic: 1. The topic must be chosen by the researcher and within their interest and specialization. 2. The researcher must have the competence and ability to tackle the topic, as well as the means to finance it. 3. The topic must be researchable and manageable - it should have available data that can answer the research questions and testable hypotheses, and the researcher must have equipment to collect valid and reliable results. 4. The research should be able to be completed within a reasonable timeframe and contribute to national development goals and the growth of human knowledge.

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Guidelines in The Selection of A Research Problem or Topic

The document provides 13 guidelines for selecting a research problem or topic: 1. The topic must be chosen by the researcher and within their interest and specialization. 2. The researcher must have the competence and ability to tackle the topic, as well as the means to finance it. 3. The topic must be researchable and manageable - it should have available data that can answer the research questions and testable hypotheses, and the researcher must have equipment to collect valid and reliable results. 4. The research should be able to be completed within a reasonable timeframe and contribute to national development goals and the growth of human knowledge.

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GUIDELINES IN THE SELECTION OF A RESEARCH PROBLEM OR TOPIC

1. The research problem or topic must be chosen by the researcher himself. This is to avoid blaming
others offering excuses for any obstacle encountered.

2. It must be within the interest of the researcher. This is to make sure that the researcher will focus his
full attention on the research work.

3. It must be within the specialization of the researcher. This will in some way make the work easier for
him because he is working on familiar grounds. Besides, this may improve his specialization skill, and
competence in his profession.

4. It must be within the competence of the researcher to tackle. The researcher must know the method of
research and other research procedures applicable to his problem and he must know how to apply
them. He must have a workable understanding of his study.

5. It must be within the ability of the researcher to finance, otherwise he must be able to find funding for
his research. Research involves not a small amount of expense and the researcher must be able to foot
the bills until his study is completed. There must be a budget which he must be able to shoulder.

6. It is researchable and manageable, that is,

6.1 Data are available and accessible. The researcher must be sure that the participants in his
investigation possess the needed data and that they are within his reach. So, one must not choose a
problem in which the locations of the data are too far away, say foreign lands.

6.2 The data must meet the standards of accuracy, objectivity, and verifiability. This is important. The
data gathered must be accurate, objective, and not biased, and can be verified if there arises a
need, otherwise, the results of the study will not be valid and the generalizations formulated will be
faulty.

6.3 Answers to the specific questions (subproblems) can be found. The data to be collected must
supply the necessary answers to the specific questions. Suppose the question is “How qualified are
the teachers handling Science?” The data to be gathered are the educational attainments and the
fields of specialization of the teachers to be checked against the regulations of the school system.
This way, the answer to the question can be found.

6.4 The hypotheses formulated are testable, that is, they can be accepted or rejected. Hypotheses are
not proved, they are only determined as true or not. If the findings from the data do not conform to
the hypotheses, the later are rejected. If the findings conform to the hypotheses, the latter are
accepted as true ad valid.

6.5 Equipment and instruments for research are available and can give valid and reliable results. The
construction and validation of research instruments are fully discussed in the later chapter.

7. It can be completed within a reasonable period of time unless it is a longitudinal research which takes a
long time for its completion. Although research is unhurried, there must be a timetable for its
completion. The graduate students engaged in social and educational research, a research project for a
master’s thesis must be completed within three years from the time the academic work has been
completed and for a doctoral dissertation, five years. This is according to regulation.

8. It is significant, important, and relevant to the present time and situation, timely, and of current
interest. This means that the research project must be able to make a substantial impact upon
situations and people it is intended for or addressed to. If must be able to arouse the interest of the
people concerned. It the study about drug abuse, it must be able to draw attention of those engaged in
the habit and those assigned to stop it.

9. The results are practical and implementable. If the investigation is about drug addiction, are the
recommendations for its eradication applicable with the expected effectiveness?

10. It requires original, critical, and reflective thinking to solve it. To be able to apply these, the research
project must be novel, new or original. The study is considered novel and new if it has not yet been
studied before and the data are gathered from new and original sources. However, the study may be a
replication, that is, the study has already been conducted but in another place, not in the place where it
is intended to be studied again. The purpose of study replications is to determine if conditions in one
place are also true in other places so that generalizations of wider application can be formulated.

11. It can be delimited to suit the resources of the researcher but big or large enough to be able to give
significant, valid, and reliable results and generalizations. The area and population may be reduced but
only to such an extent that generalizations can be considered true and useful.

12. It must contribute to the national development goals for the improvement of the quality of human life.
This is the ultimate aim of research, to improve the quality of human life. Resource must improve or
show how to improve unsatisfactory conditions.

13. It must contribute of the fund of human knowledge.

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