CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the researchers will present and discuss the method and procedure

that will be used in the study. It will include the sampling scheme, the respondents, and

the data collection

Research Methods Used

Quantitative research is the systematic empirical investigation of observable

phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques. The objective of

quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories, hypotheses

pertaining to phenomena.

This study will use the correlational method for the research. The main focus of

this research method is the effects of the being part of the volleyball varsity team to their

grade in the Mathematics subject, in which the researchers can figure out the solution.

Correlation means association – more precisely it is a measure of the extent to

which two variables are related. If an increase in one variable tends to be associated with

an increase in the other then this is known as a positive correlation. If an increase in one

variable tends to be associated with a decrease in the correlation.

Correlation is not a research method bit a way of analyzing data gathered by other

means. A correlation identifies variables and looks for a relationship between them
Sampling Scheme

The researchers will be creating a survey test related to the topic, will have the

questions approved by the teacher, and will give the test to the selected respondents for

this research.

The researchers will get the total number of high school volleyball varsity

students in the school and will use simple random sampling to avoid biases.

In a simple random sample of a given size, all subsets of the frame are given an

equal probability. Furthermore, any given pair of elements has the same chance of

selection as any other such pair. This minimizes bias and simplifies analysis of results. In

particular, the variance between individual results within the sample is a good indicator

of variance in the overall population, which makes it relatively easy to estimate the

accuracy of results.

Description of the Respondents

The respondents of the survey will be the high school Volleyball Varsity students

from Philadelphia High School; There will be a number of 14 students, 2 males and 12

female students ranging from ages 12 to 17 will be answering the survey that will be

given to them. In addition to this, the respondents will be coming from both the junior

and senior high school.

Statistical Treatment of the Data

The survey tests will be answered and given back to the researchers. The results

will be recorded, classified, tabulated and interpreted by the researchers using the

following statistical tools in answering the problems raised in Chapter I.

The data will be computed statistically by using correlational statistical tool. The

method could help find the relationship between the two variables: their first semester

grade in Mathematics and their participation in the Volleyball Varsity team.

The statistical tool to be used will be the Pearson Correlational Statistical Tool.

Correlation helps identify whether the variables are related and how related they are to

each other.

The formula of the Pearson Correlation Statistical Tool is as follows:

Where:

 n is the sample size

 xi, yi are the single samples with i


 A statistical hypothesis, sometimes called confirmatory data analysis, is

a hypothesis that is testable on the basis of observing a process that is modeled via a set

of random variables. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference.

Commonly, two statistical data sets are compared, or a data set obtained by sampling is

compared against a synthetic data set from an idealized model. A hypothesis is proposed

for the statistical relationship between the two data sets, and this is compared as

an alternative to an idealized null hypothesis that proposes no relationship between two

data sets. The comparison is deemed statistically significant if the relationship between

the data sets would be an unlikely realization of the null hypothesis according to a

threshold probability—the significance level. Hypothesis tests are used in determining

what outcomes of a study would lead to a rejection of the null hypothesis for a pre-

specified level of significance. The process of distinguishing between the null hypothesis

and the alternative hypothesis is aided by identifying two conceptual types of errors (type

1 & type 2), and by specifying parametric limits on e.g. how much type 1 error will be

permitted.