The following steps are provided to give you a general guideline, which may slightly vary depending onyour study.
1. First of all, you should briefly re-state the measurable objectives of your study to remind the
audience of what you would do in your study. Look at your problem statement and see what you
defined as the goal of your study. The objectives of your study must be aligned with the goal of
your study.
2. It is then followed by the type of research, which is named “purpose of study” in your textbook.
You do not have to explicitly mention your study is exploratory study, descriptive study, or
causal study, but your description should show your study is one of those types of research.
3. With the first two steps mentioned above in your opening statements, now you are getting into the
main portion of your research methodology. In your problem statement, you said how you would
deal with your research problems. Now, the language you used in your problem statement should
be further expanded in detail in your methodology. Therefore, the main elements of your
methodology should include 1) investigation type, 2) study setting, and 3) procedures of your
research method which altogether should describe how you would deal with your research
problems in your proposed study. Look at the textbook and see what investigation type should
match your proposed study.
4. Once you described the method of investigation, you would then need to “briefly but clearly”
describe the method of data collection and the type of data to be used in your study. This should
serve as an introduction. Depending on the methodology you have chosen, you must have a
variety of ways of collecting the data via classroom testing, lab testing, survey, interview, or filed
observation. At this point of time, you just need to briefly introduce the method of data collection,
which will be detailed later in your next assignment.
5. You should also introduce the method of analysis at the end of your research methodology. The
method of analysis varies a lot dependent on your study and the method of investigation. Some
examples may include a comparative analysis (simulation vs actual measurement, group A vs
group B, pre-test vs post-test, etc.), cause-and-effect analysis, correlational analysis, hypothesis
testing, cost analysis, regression analysis, or trend analysis. Again, same as the method of data
collection, you do not have to detail each step of your data analysis here. It will be detailed in
your next assignment.