PR 3

• Methodology is the third chapter of a research paper. It includes the research designs, locale of the study, respondents/participants of the study, sampling technique, research instrument, data gathering procedures and analysis procedures.
• Research Design It discusses the research approach you used in study (either qualitative or quantitative).
• Grounded Theory uses primarily interviews and existing documents to build a theory based on the data.
• Phenomenological Study explores the lived-experiences of the participants on how they feel about things during an event or activity.
• Ethnographic immerses the researcher to learn and describe the culture's characteristics much the same way anthropologists observe the cultural challenges and motivations that drive a group.
• Case Study provides an in-depth look at one test subject where the subject can be a person or family, business or organization, or a town or city.
• The historical method of qualitative research describes past events in order to understand present patterns and anticipate future choices.
• Discourse Analysis considers the larger discourse context in order to understand how it affects the meaning of the sentence.
• Sampling Technique/Sources of Data discusses the process of selecting the participants/respondents of the study
• There are two (2) types of sampling methods namely probability sampling and non- probability sampling.
• Probability sampling involves random selection, allowing you to make statistical inferences about the whole group.
• Non-probability sampling involves non-random selection based on convenience or other criteria, allowing you to easily collect initial data.
• Thematic analysis is the most commonly used process in analyzing qualitative data. It uses participants’ responses, identify its meaning until themes emerge from the data.