Designing a research is similar to making a house, car, bag, dress, cake, etc.
which needs appropriate materials and necessary process or steps to follow.
Then, you have to consider whether what you intend to make or invent has
significance to you as a person. Otherwise, your efforts will not be put to
use.
In designing your qualitative research, you have to consider whether the
topic you have chosen is relevant to you as a learner, as a constituent in
your barangay, and as a citizen of this country.
Therefore, the first question you should answer is, “What is the issue,
phenomenon or problem in my school, at home, and in the community that needs
my special attention by conducting a research?”
Examples:
1. In School
Based on observation, what are the issues and problems I encounter inside
the classroom? Is it the lesson, teachers, learners’ attitude and
hindrances to graduation?
2. At Home
Considering my life on a daily basis, what are the things that bother me
at home?
3. In the Community
What are the usual complaints of my neighbor regarding ordinances,
practices and activities in the barangay? Or, what are the situations in
my community that need to be improved?
Once you have decided on area where you can focus on, you need to remember
the design of the qualitative research you will venture into.
Design of Qualitative Research
Qualitative research is an emergent design which means that it emerges as
you make ongoing decisions about what you have learned.
As a design, qualitative research requires researcher’s decision-making
like how to gather data, from where and whom to collect, when to gather,
and for how long is the process will be.
To have a holistic picture of qualitative research project, you have to
remember that in deciding on a topic, you have to consider the kind and
the field it belongs, as well as its relevance to your daily life.