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LESSON: SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

Identifying the coverage and limitation of a study is important in research. Doing this would help in
narrowing down the focus of the study prevent the researcher from including things that are not relevant or
even confusion on what to cover because of many possible areas to investigate.
Some studies use scope and limitation while other studies use scope and delimitation to present the
parameters or boundaries of a research study. Are the two the same?
Let’s define the terms scope, limitation and delimitation.
1. SCOPE – this describes the coverage of the study. It specifies what is covered in terms of concept
(could be the general problem), subjects or the population included in the study, as well as the timeline when
the study was conducted.
Based from the previous activity, let’s determine where is the scope.
The study only focused in knowing the level of proficiency in Science among the Grade 11 students of
Baguio City National High School as well as the factors that affect it
(GENERAL PROBLEM/TOPIC). The study considered the personal information of the students
which include their sex (Male of Female) and strand- DEMOGRAPHIC (STEM, ABM, GAS, I.C.T., H.E., and
Automotive).
The presented scope only includes the topic of investigation as well as demographics or
the personal information of the students.
2. DELIMITATION – This presents the factors or variables that are not to be included and the
boundary in terms of time frame, number of subjects, participants or respondents who are excluded (Faltado,
et al.,2016). As opposite, it contains those that you would include in your study.
Going back to our previous activity,
The researcher assessed the level of proficiency of 180 respondents
(POPULATION/RESPONDENTS/SAMPLES) enrolled in the school year 2019-2020
(TIME FRAME). Each of the respondent was given a test paper (TOOL) to answer. The students
selected came from 11 sections of Grade 11 (SAMPLING METHOD) to prevent bias and get objective
results.
the researcher sets the boundary on what he/she would include in the study and this would include the
population, time frame, setting, research tool, and sampling method.
3. LIMITATION – this defines the potential weakness of the study (Bueno, 2016). These are also the
constraints that cannot be avoided during the conduct of the study which are beyond the capability of the
researcher to address.
The three could be presented as follows:

Points to remember:
1. Don’t be afraid to acknowledge the limitation of your study. Again, no research is
perfect, ALL studies have their limitations. Limitations are there to be used for further studies. If other
researchers will know of these on your research, they will put importance to it as they conduct their own
studies.
2. Focus the limitations only on your problem. The limitations/delimitations that you are to
place must be aligned or related only on the research problem not on any other things not covered by your
study.
3. Present acceptable limitations only. Present limitations which are beyond your capacity
as the researcher. Do not present something to reason out why you were not able to do such procedure, step,
or others. Doing so would diminish the credibility of your paper and even you, the researcher.
For the sole purpose of the research study, we will be utilizing the term scope and
delimitation.
Important note: Scope and delimitation/limitation is not usually presented as a separate portion in
a research paper especially published research journal. Why is this so? This is because the contents are
integrated in some other parts of the research paper like the methodology. The scopes are already presented
in the statement of the problem and the methodology part as well. The respondents, sampling procedure, data
gathering tool are being presented in the methodology section of the paper. Just like the significance of the
study which is integrated in the background of the study. This is to easily see the importance of the study to be
conducted. If it does not have any relevance or significance, it will not be studied any longer.
Activity 1: Reach the destination by answering the given question in each station. One box is
equivalent to one letter. For answers containing two words, leave one box after the first word.

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