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d. Instrumentation – selection or development of the criterion
measures.
7. Specify the data collection procedures.
8. Select the data analysis methodology.
9. Execute the research plan.
10. Evaluate the results and draw conclusions.

Qualities of a Researcher
These qualities can be developed if he is interested to become one. To
greatly facilitate the recall of these qualities, an acronym PEACH ORCHIDS
can be used which stands for these traits.

Punctuality. Time is a crucial element in research work. When to do
things in the research work is not much of the choice of the researcher.
Research does not provide much allowance to the researcher when should
one activity be done. It has to be performed when it demands it should. This
is punctuality, which simply means doing and accomplishing things on time.

Experience. Sufficient academic preparations are not enough to make
one a good researcher. Together with his educational background, he needs
working experiences on how to conduct scientific studies. Oftentimes, there
is a great deal of difference that exists between what books tell and what exists
in the real environment. For a researcher to become one, he needs to be
exposed and immersed in actual research activities. The amount of experience
one has can either make or unmake him as a researcher.

Ability to reason. This refers to the actual and potential capability of
the researcher to rationalize, provide insights and reasons on his work or
findings as a researcher. A researcher must be critical in his thinking. He
must have that ability to point out strong and weak points of an issue, and
capable to defend or exert an idea through logical or scientific reasoning.

Competence. This trait means that the researcher has sufficient
knowledge, skill, and ability to do things where he claims proficiency. That is,
he has adequate knowledge, practice, and experience in his field of
specialization and is able to apply these in research work.

Health. Research involves energetic and tedious activities for both the
body and the mind. For a researcher to

achieve his aims, he must be physically and mentally healthy, stable, and
has the ability to sustain endurance and hard work.
Originality. Coming up with a new thing or idea is just one of the
objectives of the researcher. He must be imaginative, innovative, creative, or
inventive, and must always attempt to create an authentic or novel work in
his field of concern. By being original means the work and the findings the
researcher claims his own have been generated by none other than himself.