It illustrates the expected relationship between the variables. It defines the relevant objectives for your research process and maps out how they come together to draw coherent conclusions (Swaen & George, 2022).

It provides details to the reader on how the study will contribute such as what the study will offer and who will benefit from it. It is also referred to as the rationale.

It presents the reasons why certain areas are not covered and how the study will be narrowed in scope. This part shows the weaknesses of the study which are beyond the control of the researchers.

It is a complete sequency of steps or procedures that need to be followed when obtaining the needed data during an investigation (Caintic & Cruz, 2008).

It is a plan or course of action which the research follows to answer the research question/s or solve the research problem (Sanchez, et al., 1996).

It is manipulated to determine the value of a dependent variable; most important ingredient in a study

It is the one being measured in an experiment or evaluated in a mathematical equation

It remains constant or unchanging

Investigation done to find out pertinent variables.

Investigation done to find out the relationship of two variables.

Investigation done to find out the effect of one variable to another.

The experiment should be repeated several times to find an estimate of variations among observations on the group of subjects treated alike.

It refers to the assignment of the experiment subjects to the treatments by chance.

It is done when balancing, grouping, and blocking of experimental units are employed in the adopted design.

No outside variables may affect the experimental subjects.

It introduces the overview of the study

It is the target of the study

It is indirect and implicit

A statement in which there is no relationship between two variables.

It is direct and explicit

A statement in which there is some statistical significance between two measured phenomenon.

The treatments are randomly assigned to the experimental subjects without restriction.

Blocking is done to make sure that the experiment subjects in a group have similar characteristics so that the observed differences among the groups will be largely due to treatments.

It refers to the extent to which you plan to study/research your topic. This is done to mainly keep your research practical and feasible.

These are influences that the researcher cannot control.