Practical research

• Research Designs


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  • Case Study
  • Grounded Theory
  • Phenomenology
• Narrative

  • Nature of Question: Story-oriented
  • Focus of Question: Story
  • Selection/Population: 1-2
  • Product Realized: Moderatum generalization
• Case Study Design


  • Nature of Question: In-depth descriptive
  • Focus of Question: issue
  • Selection/Population: 1 to many
  • Product Realized: lessons
• Grounded Theory Design


  • Nature of Question: Process
  • Focus of Question: Process
  • Selection/Population: 20 or more
  • Product Realized: Theory (Use theory of Saturation Point)
• Phenomenology Design


  • Nature of Question: Essence
  • Focus of Question: Meaning
  • Selection/Population: 3-13
  • Product Realized: Collective description
• Moderatum generalization


  A modest, practical generalization based on personal experience that makes daily life possible through the resemblance of order and consistency to social interaction
• The appropriate research design should be specified and described. Explain why this particular research design or procedure was chosen.
• Qualitative Research


  Focuses on the description and interpretation that might lead to development of new concepts or theory, or to an evaluation of an organizational process which cannot be adequately expressed numerically (Hancok et al, 2009). It aimed to get a better understanding about one's personal experiences that are to be interpreted for the formulations of solutions that may be imposed.
• This approach is appropriate to the study since utilized qualitative techniques such as interview and observation to identify the struggles of the drop-out students