basalo benigay chapter 4

Chapter 4 comments
1. Research Design should come first
2. A focus (ed) group discussion (did you employ this?)
3. Express all in past tense

CHAPTER IV
METHODOLOGY
Respondents and Locale of the Study
The respondents are 56 first year college students or 20% of the whole first year population of the University of the Philippines Cebu enrolled in all courses offered by the university. This study covers the whole population consisting of 266 enrollees for the 2nd semester of the SY 2010-2011 only. The population is divided into eight courses with these corresponding enrollees: 54 in BS Management, 35 in BS Biology, 17 in BS Math, 50 in BS Computer Science, 21 in BA Political Science, 35 in BA Psychology, 31 in Mass Communication and 23 in Fine Arts.
Sampling Procedure
A stratified random sampling technique is utilized in this study. This is a method of a sampling in which the population is divided into smaller groups. In stratified random sampling, the groups are formed based on members' common characteristics. A random sample from each stratum is taken in a number proportional to the population’s size. These subsets of the strata are then pooled to form a random sample. The respondents are randomly selected from a master list of the University of the Philippines Cebu first year students provided by the University’s College Secretary Office (CSO). The researchers select 20% of the whole first year population or 56 respondents from the university.

Research Design
This study adopts the correlational survey design. This design uses survey questionnaires that are distributed to the respondents. Its main objective is to determine the relationship between the economic status and the choice of course of first year University of the Philippines Cebu students. This study also aims to identify the other factors which have possibly influenced their choice of course.
A focus group discussion is then conducted to support the initial data gathered by the questionnaire. The discussion is also used to gather more information from the respondents that are not revealed in their answers.
Data Collection
Each of the randomly selected respondents is given a questionnaire which they are tasked to fill up and to provide with accurate information.
The respondents are then divided into groups of five for the focus group discussion. The researchers decided that it is essential to conduct a focus group discussion limited to five people in order to create a more personal and comfortable atmosphere within the group. This has also prodded the respondents to provide more information than what they have initially provided in the questionnaire. The allotment for the collection of data will be for two weeks.
Having gathered all the necessary data, the researchers classified the responses according to the relationship of their economic status to their choice of course.

Instrumentation
In order to determine the relationship of the students’ economic status with their choice of course, questionnaires are distributed for the respondents to answer. The questionnaire is divided into three parts; personal information, financial background and choice of college course accordingly.
The first part of the questionnaire determines the personal information of the respondents which comprises name, age, sex and their course and year. The second part determines their financial background basing from their STFAP bracket assignment. The third part is in Likert Scale form, wherein the respondents indicated whether they strongly agree, agree, are undecided, disagree, or strongly disagree to the given statements. The statements given in the questionnaire are factors which are broken down to further emphasize the relationship between the students’ economic status and their choice of college course and to promote consistency as regards to the respondents’ answers.
Data Analysis
In order to determine the relationship between the economic status and the choice of course of first year University of the Philippines Cebu students, the answers in the questionnaires coupled with the focus group discussion are grouped accordingly.
The respondents’ STFAP bracket assignment and their answers in the Likert Scale on the questionnaires are duly compared and analyzed with the aid of The Statistical Package for the Social Science Software (SPSS).
The respondents’ answers in the focus group discussion are also classified under these factors: economic factor, others’ influence, prestige of the college, skills and abilities related and uncertainty.