Sacred Heart College

Lucena, City

LEA O. DULAY
SOCIAL SCIENCE

TOPIC:
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

WHAT IS IT?
Scope

 Scope refers to how far the research area has explored and parameters in with the study
will be operating in.
 Scope of investigation defines where and when the study was conducted and who the
subjects were
 The type of information to be included in the scope of a research project would include
facts and theories about the subject of the project.

Limitations

 Limitations, also known as the bounds, are influences that the researcher cannot control.
They are the shortcomings, conditions or influences that cannot be controlled by the
researcher that place restrictions on your methodology and conclusions. Any limitations
that might influence the results should be mentioned.
 The limitations of the study are those characteristics of design or methodology that
impacted or influenced the application or interpretation of the results of your study. They
are the constraints on generalizability (extension of research findings and conclusions
from a study conducted on a sample population to the population at large) and utility of
findings that are the result of the ways in which you chose to design the study and/or the
method used to establish internal and external validity.

GUIDELINES IN WRITING SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

The scope and limitations should include the following:
1. A brief statement of the general purpose of the study.
2. The subject matter and topics studied and discussed.
3. The locale of the study, where the data were gathered or the entity to which the data belong.
4. The population or universe from which the respondents were selected.
5. The period of the study. This is the time, either months or years, during which the data were
gathered.

CONCLUSION:
Scope and limitations are two terms that address the details of a research project. The
term scope refers to the problem or issue that the researcher wants to study with the project.
Limitations are the term used for constraints that impact the researcher’s ability to effectively
study the scope of the project. One of the first tasks you need to do when completing research is
to identify the scope of the project. When identifying the scope, you need to address not only the
problem or issue that you want to study but the population that you want to examine. When
compiling a research paper, the researcher should state as soon as possible (usually in the
introduction) what he or she intends to do and plans to avoid in the study. This entails stating the
scope of study and outlining, one by one, any limitations. This eliminates confusion for readers
and takes them through the researcher's mental process when he or she performed the research.
Regardless of discipline, the research paper should follow roughly the same format. Papers
should begin with an introduction that concisely states the main problem to be addressed. This is
usually accomplished in a thesis statement. It tells the audience what topic is being studied and
why it is important that the researcher studies it. This is where the limitations go, too...

REFERENCES:
Jose F. Calderon, Ed. D. , Expectacion C. Gonzales (1993) Methods of Research and Thesis
Writing
Amadeo Pangilinan Cristobal, Jr.,Ed.D. Practical Research for Senior High School
Pedrito Jose V. Bermudo Ph.D., Aurora E. Araojo Ed.D. (1997) Research Writing Made Simple
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