Eastern Visayas State University

Burauen Campus
Burauen Leyte

Summary Report
in
Prof. Ed.353
Educational Research

(Subject Matter of the Inquiry or Research)

Submitted by:
Marilou M. Mica
BSED TLE III - A

Submitted to:
Ma. Socorro C. Gicain, Ph.D.
Campus Director
 Subject Matter of the Inquiry or Research

Research
Research is defined as a careful consideration of study regarding a particular
concern or a problem using scientific methods. It is also a systematic inquiry to
describe, explain, predict and control the observed phenomenon.

Subject Matter
Begin the research with work problem.
Topic must be researchable if the knowledge and information about it are
supported by evidence that is observable, factual, and logical.

Guidelines in Choosing a Research Topic

1. Interest in the Subject Matter

Your interest in a topic may be caused by your rich background knowledge about
it and by its novelty; meaning, its unfamiliarity to you. Your real interest in a
subject pushes you to research, investigate, or inquire about it with full
motivation, enthusiasm, and energy.

2. Availability of Information
Collecting a lot of information as evidence to support your claims about your
subject matter from varied forms of literature like books, journals, and
newspapers. Your topic should have available resources and make it sure that
when you look for any books or materials as your reference, the dates of the
materials should be new or updated.

3. Timeliness and Relevance of the Topic

The topic must be relevant and should be timely related to present.

4. Limitations on the Subject

Your topic should have a limit, your research must be accurate to the subject or
to your objectives it must be related and should base through your interest on the
topic.

5. Personal Resources
In making a research you have to assess first in terms of financial standing,
health condition, mental capacity needed facilities and time allotment that
enables you to complete your research.
 Guidelines in Choosing a Research Topic

1. Controversial Topics

These are topics that depend greatly on the writer’s opinion, which may tend to
be biased or prejudicial. Facts are not supported in topics like these.

2. Highly technical Subjects

Researching on topics that requires an advanced study.

3. Hard-to-investigate Subjects

A subject that is hard to investigate if there are no available resources or

materials that is up dated for the said topic.

4. Too Broad Subjects

Topics that are too broad that will prevent you from giving a concentrated subject
matter.

5. Too Narrow Subjects

These subjects are limited or specified with thorough searching or reading of the
information of the topic.

6. Vague Subjects

Choosing topics like these will prevent you from having a clear focus on your
paper. Like choosing those indefinite adjectives such as several, many, some,
etc.