Chapter III Sample Study No. 2
Chapter III Sample Study No. 2
respondents of the study data gathering instrument, data gathering procedure and
Research Design
handling children in conflict with the law (CICL).This method was used because it
is deals with gathering, classifying, presenting data and collecting the summarize
collection of relevant data for the purposes of describing and interpreting existing
given population in an attempt to explain the issues that will lead to whatever the
subject of the research, without covering “why” it happens. In relation to the topic
at hand, the present study specifically aimed to provide a vivid description of the
modes applied by the chosen respondents in processing children in conflict with
The main source of data for this study came from the selected police
researcher considered the personnel of the Investigation Section and Patrol Section
of the mentioned city police station. The personnel of the Patrol Section were
selected because they usually occupied the position of having the initial contact
with the children in conflict with the law (CICL). The other set of respondents
came from the Investigation Section which includes the personnel of the Women
and Children Protection Desk (WCPD) of the subject police station. They were
undertaken once the CICL were taken into the custody of the investigating police
station. Using convenience sampling, this study included 51 personnel from the
believed that these police personnel can impart important insights and
justifications to the results and findings generated in this study. Lastly, the
expertise of the chosen personnel in handling CICL can better assist the researcher
by the researcher is composed of two (2) major parts. The first part determined the
personal and demographic profile of the respondents such as the age, sex, civil
The second part of the instrument was constructed to determine the modes
questionnaire are further divided into three (3) parts in order to identify how the
respondent police personnel process CICL during their initial contact with them,
during interview, and during their turn over to other concerned government
agencies.
relevant data and information that can be the bases of the items included in the
the researcher before it was totally approved by the research instructor and
research adviser. Upon the approval of the two (2) mentioned mentors, the
researcher subjected the instrument into content validation among the three (3)
provided the researcher with important suggestions that will further improve the
quality of their data gathering instrument. After integrating these suggestions and
getting the approval of the experts, the researcher also subjected the questionnaire
into a dry run to measure statistically the reliability of constructed data gathering
instrument. The researcher conducted the said process among the 20 personnel of
tallied and submitted to a statistician for reliability test. The result of the test
yielded a reliability coefficient of .90, which means that the data gathering
Taking into consideration the result of the reliability test, the researcher
The objectives of the study were explained to chosen police personnel of BCPS,
BCPS personnel in their initial contact with CICL, in conducting interview and in
turning over the CICL to concerned agencies of the government. The scale is as
follows :
Verbal Interpretation
Scale Range
Negative Items Positive Items
WCPD section was used to determine the policies of handling the CICL. Turning
over of CICL to other agencies was detailed to the researcher. The facts collected
during the interview were added to the result of the study and supported the
accomplish this study. As the researcher was enrolled in Research 101, she was
asked to submit a topic of her choice that can be a subject of a research work. She
presented the topic to her research adviser and upon approval, the researcher
that can be the bases of her chosen topic. The researcher even collected several
gathering instrument that was validated by a panel of experts and further tested for
reliability using a statistical process. This marked the start of the data gathering
letter addressed to the Chief of Police of Batangas City Police Station (BCPS),
asking permission to utilize the selected personnel of the station as the respondents
of the study. The Chief of Police of BCPS granted such request and the researcher
questionnaire. The researcher spent almost one (1) month to gather all the
necessary data due to different shifts of work and work assignments of the chosen
the instrument and she tried her very best to answer all the queries raised by the
statistician sent back the results of her computations one (1) day after the
researcher submitted the data for statistical treatment. And from that point, she
started to accomplish the last two chapters of her study which are focused on the
To analyze the data gathered the following statistical tools were used.
distribution of the profile of the respondents with respect to age, sex, civil status,
personnel in processing children in conflict with the law in terms of initial contact
length of service.