OLORES, Sarah HUMSS 12-6 Mr.

Macrin Macky Abril

HRE 111: Research in Daily Life (Qualitative Research)

ACTIVITIES MADE FOR GRADE IMPROVEMENT PURPOSES

A C T I V I T Y #1

1. A Phenomenological Study into How Students Experience and Understand the

University Presidency

The Research Design used in this study is Phenomenology in which the

researchers are enabled to explore the experiences and the different perceptions
about the phenomenon. Furthermore, the researcher used Purposive Sampling as a
technique to organizationally select the involved student’s responses. This strategy
was used to develop a sample where multiple perspectives would offer both depth
and diversity. The chosen students were persons who were involved in activities that
includes leadership, such as student government, club and organizations, and
extracurricular activities. Next, is a modified snowball sampling in which it efforts to
connect with those potential participants that could be involved. These are the
students who were active and involved with the University’s extracurricular activities.
The snowball sampling basically refers to a strategy in sampling where the proponent
chooses a person and that person will refer another individual that could participate in
the said study. The purpose of the study is to discover and explore how the college
students experience and understand the university presidency. The significance of the
research is also to explore how students involved with extracurricular activities
perceive their leadership and how they experience it by giving certain situations.
There were no certain institutions or persons mentioned that could benefit the study.
The problems stated were how the students experience and understand the university
presidency and how does interaction with a president shape student meaning of the
college experience. In order to validate regarding the questions, the researcher
discussed with different student affairs experts and higher education researchers.

2. Youth Perception on Social Media as a Platform for Advocacy Communication

The researchers used phenomenology as their research design because they

wanted to know the perspective of the youth regarding the social media as a platform
for advocacy and communication. On the other hand, they conducted an online survey
that gathers demographic information of the respondents. According to our lessons, it
is identified as volunteer sampling in which the participants will be able to decide
whether they will participate or not in the said study when they are asked. The next
used was by interviewing the respondents in which the proponents will ask for the
specific interview questions that they have prepared. I believe that this strategy is also
a volunteer sampling technique because the respondents are able to decide whether
they want to be interviewed or not. The beneficiaries that was mentioned are the
following: communication field because Facebook itself is an online platform that is
characterize by its ability to support information sharing and collaborations between
individuals. Next is, to the Facebook features because as more and more advocacy
groups turn to Facebook as an avenue to disseminate information about their cause,
Facebook can create features which are more adept to the needs of advocacy groups
such as the addition of a “Donate to this Cause” button, and other similar features.
Lastly, it significantly impacts the Filipino youth. It will identify how the youth today
communicate among their peers and others to gain insights and information. Its
general objective is to determine the perception of the youth on social media as a
communication platform for advocacy. However, the specific objectives are, to
measure the youth’s perceived ease of use on Facebook as a communication platform
for advocacy, to measure the youth’s perceived ease of use on Facebook as a
communication platform for advocacy, and to determine whether the youth has a
positive or negative perception on Facebook as a communication platform for
advocacy.

3. Me, myself and i: What makes Filipino millennials narcissist?

In the middle of me doing this, Alpino, John Harvey messaged us that you
may not accept this activity so I decided not to continue and proceed to the
next activity.

A C T I V I T Y #2

1. Developing a Research Question

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLYCYeCFak

Content:

The video basically discussed about formulating a good research question. At first,
the narrator identified first what is a research question. It is also said that you must
first search about the background before settling into specific question. Simply looking
at an article or a few recent news articles related to your topic will be enough to give
you some ideas for directions that you want to explore. It discussed about what
makes a question a good question. There are several answers are: it should not be too
narrow and too broad. Next, your question needs to be specific because it would give
directions for your research. Finally, the question should have significance. It should
interest you because you’ll spend time doing it.

Lesson learned:

I learned that developing a research question is one of the most difficult steps in
making of a research. In my experience, me and my group mates really had a hard
time formulating one. In addition to that, I learned some of the strategies that should
be used in order to formulate an effective research question. It was not much of a
great help to me because we have already discussed it in class. However, it made me
more interested and challenged into really working hard in order to formulate a good
research question.

2. How to write a statement of the problem in three steps by Prof. Henry M.

Bwisa

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNv3G6vAFEI

Content:

At first it gave meaning about what research is. You can look for a problem in the
library, in the market, in the industry, in the farm, in short, there is a problem
everywhere. A problem statement is a description of a difficulty or lack that needs to
be solved or at least researched to see whether a solution can be found. It can also be
described as either a gap between the real and the desired or a contradiction between
principle and practice. The video gave some different suggestions on what problems
should be focused on. According to the video, the format or parts of a problem
statement are: the ideal, the reality and the consequences. Finally, it discussed about
the simple three steps on how to write a statement problem. First, construct
statement b describing a goal of desired state of a given situation, phenomenon, etc.
Next, describe a condition that prevents the goal, state or value discussed in step 1
from being achieved or realized at the present time. This will build the reality, the
situation as it is and establish a gap between what ought to be and what is. Finally,
state the possible consequences should the situation not improve.

Lesson learned:

Of course, I have learned it the simpler way. I thought that writing a statement of
the problem requires complex understanding about it, but the video made me realize
that it should not be complicated but should be an in-depth one. In addition to that, I
have also learned that you can write and formulate a problem just by looking at the
surroundings. There could be problems everywhere and you can find a lot of them just
by looking around you. Lastly, I learned that the statement of the problem could be
simply made with just the three steps that was proposed by Professor Henry M. Bwisa.

3. Lesson 2- Problem Statements and Research Questions

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTbRB3g8gY

Content:

The lesson was a combination of the two lessons that I have watched. It stated
that the Problem Statements contextualize an issue for readers and introduce a
problem that needs to be solved. While the research questions are the center of your
research, on what you are trying to answer. The narrator gave a lot of examples and
I presume that I should not go deep into it. There are four components that was said
in order to make a good research question. 1) Focus, the specific variable of the
phenomena to be explored or measured. 2) Scope, a specified time, place, population,
genre. 3) Value, the significance of the study. 4) Feasibility, asking if your study is
do-able with the resources or the time that you have.

Lesson learned:

I have learned that in order to create a professional problem statement, you

should have investigated 3-5 research papers according to your topic. However, the
narrator gave so much examples that made me think deeply on how to create a
research question and the statement of the problem. Because of the components that
was mentioned, I’ve learned that I should also consider it in order to create a good
research question. Watching these videos made me understand more about the
difference of the research question to the significance of the study. Therefore, I
conclude that the two should really be taken differently but it should be
interconnecting.