RPRO

Personal Resources

Before sticking fully to your final choice, assess your research abilities in terms of your financial standing, health condition, mental capacity, needed facilities and time allotment to enable you to complete your research.

Vague Subjects

Choosing topics like these will prevent you from having a clear focus on your paper. For instances, titles beginning with indefinite adjectives such as several, many, some, etc., as in " Some Remarkable Traits of a Filipino" or "Several People's Comments on the RH Law, are vague enough to decrease the readers interest and curiosity.

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 among others is a part and parcel of any research works. Hence in choosing a research topic, visit your library to check the availability of reading materials on your chosen topic.

Highly technical subjects

For a beginner, researching on topics that require an advanced study, technical knowledge, and vast experience is a very difficult task.

Historical quantitative research

It is a type of research that make use of historical data to predict the behavior of a variable and traces patters.

Based on Types of Data Needed

The kind of data you want to work on reflects whether you wish to do a quantitative or a qualitative research

Controversial topics

These are topics that depend greatly on the writer's opinion, which may tend to be biased or prejudicial. Facts cannot support topics like these.

Too narrow subjects

These subjects are so limited or specific that an extensive or thorough searching or reading for information about these is necessary

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

empowers community members to learn and apply research techniques in order to discover solutions to issues in their community.

Timeliness and Relevance of the Topic

if it yields results that are instrumental in societal improvement. It is related to the present.

Quantitative research

involves measurement of data thus, it presents research findings referring to the number or frequency of something in numerical forms.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

is when youth and adults partner to improve the conditions of youth lives and communities using this research technique. The information that comes out of the YPAR process is meant to be used to advocate for change in communities.

Causal research

looks into the cause and effect relationship between variables.

Correlational

looks into the degree of association between variables looks at the effect

Interest in the subject matter

may be caused by your rich background knowledge about it and by its novelty; meaning its unfamiliarity to you. Being curious about a subject, like a conundrum or a puzzle, makes you determined to unravel the mystery or intriguing thing behind it. Pushes you to research, investigate, or inquire about it with full motivation, enthusiasm, and energy.

Qualitative research

requires non numerical data, which means that the research uses words rather than numbers to express the results, the inquiry, or investigation about peoples thought, beliefs, feelings, views, and lifestyle regarding the object of the study.

Hard to investigate subjects

there are no available reading materials about it and if such materials are not up-to date.

Limitation on the subject

this makes you link your choosing with course requirement. For example, to make you complete the requirements, your teacher instructs you to submit a paper that will apply the key principles you learned in business, psychology, education and so on. In this case, you have no freedom to choose your topic based on your interest but has to decide on one topic to finish your course.

Descriptive research

uses questionnaires and interviews to gather data

Experimental

where a group of respondents are randomly selected to undergo a particular researcher-imposed treatment to determine the effect of such treatment.

Too broad subjects

will prevent you from giving a concentrated or an in-depth analysis of the subject matter of the paper