PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

WORKSHEET – WEEK 1

Week 1 Target Learning Competencies:

✓ shares research experiences and knowledge
✓ explains the importance of research in daily life
✓ describes characteristics, processes, and ethics of research
✓ differentiates quantitative from qualitative research
✓ provides examples of research in areas of interest

ACTIVITY 1. Recall a particular research assignment that any of your subject teachers assigned you to accomplish.
This particular research assignment should be something that teaches you the methods of discovery, investigative
skills, critical thinking, and logic.

Complete the following to express your answer:

1. When I was in grade__, my teacher assigned me/us to ___________________________________.
2. The main objective of this task is for me/us to __________________________________________.

After recalling the challenging task that your teacher asked you to accomplish, answer the following questions.
1. While doing the assigned task, how do you feel?
2. How did you accomplish the task? List.
3. After accomplishing the research task, what have you realized?
4. How does the research experience develop you as a person?

ACTIVITY 2. Read each statement or question carefully before choosing your answer. Write your answers on your
own paper.

1. Research is undertaken because of some importance it has and does for individuals and the society. Which of
the following statements support the underlying reason behind the companies doing research before manufacturing
a product?
a. Research explores history.
b. Research gathers information.
c. Research seeks to know the truth.
d. Research improves standard of living.
2. Which significance of research is being exhibited in this situation? Because of the research, people have known
that the present Taal Volcano was not the original one, and the existing is just a fragment of a much larger one.
a. To explore history
b. To understand art
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
3. Which of the following characterizes a theory?
a. Definite and proven
b. Set of hypotheses
c. Law
d. None of the above

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4. In which of the following research is least important?
a. Health
b. Economics
c. Education
d. None of the above
5. Which of the following part of the research will most probably give laymen the most understandable and
beneficial information about the study conducted?
a. Title
b. Statement of the Problem
c. Methodology
d. Conclusion

ACTIVITY 3. Read analyze the situation below. Is it ethical or not? Explain your answer in not less than three
sentences. Write your answer on your notebook/answer sheet.

Carl is a researcher from Utopia City. He wants to research about the good traits the
city has and the factors that contributed to the attainment of these traits. The results of the study
will be presented into international for a and will be subjected to benchmarking. Upon conducting
the study, he discovered that there are certain anomalies, issues, and concerns that are being
done and hidden by their government. He continued the research he is conducting while he
disregards and covers these issues so that he can still maintain and protect the good image his
city has been projecting.

My Reactions…
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________

ACTIVITY 4. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1.One particular type of research according to data gathered is qualitative research. All of the following properly
describe it except one.
a. It identifies statistical relationship.
b. It collects words, images and objects.
c. It seeks to identify patterns, features, and themes.
d. It aims to understand and interpret social interactions.
2. Which of the following statements is untrue of a quantitative research?
a. It views reality as single and objective.
b. It generates a new hypothesis and theory from the data collected.
c. It comes up with generalizable findings that can be applied to other populations.
d. It is based on precise measurements using structured validated data-collection instruments.
3. Which of the following is untrue of a qualitative research?
a. Research results are exhaustive
b. Even underlying meanings surface through statistics
c. Consistent themes, categories, relationship are crystallized during the data gathering process

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 d. Since the researcher is the main instrument of data collection, subjectivity, on the part of the
researcher, can happen during the research process.
4. Qualitative research is regarded as ___.
a. process-oriented
b. outcome oriented
c. verification oriented
d. none of the above
5. Which of the following statements is untrue of a quantitative research?
a. It views reality as single and objective.
b. It generates a new hypothesis and theory from the data collected.
c. It comes up with generalizable findings that can be applied to other populations.
d. It is based on precise measurements using structured validated data-collection instruments.

ACTIVITY 5. Write T if the statement is true, and F, if it is false.

1. Qualitative research seeks to identify patterns, features, and themes.
2. Quantitative research is based on precise measurements using structured validated data-collection
instruments.
3. Quantitative data deals with designs, techniques and measures that do not produce numerical data.
4. Qualitative research comes up with generalizable findings that can be applied to other populations.
5. Quantitative research is associated with hard data.

Below is a list of research topics for Senior High School Students. Rewrite these topics under the appropriate
headings which they will be best conducted.

• Profiling the legal services being availed by people in a remote barangay

• Alternative and renewable energy sources
• Describing the best practices of a tourism industry in a certain place
• Low-impact exercises for pregnant women
• Study of the language of a certain place in the barangay
• Study on the development of Philippine interior housing designs
• Study of theater developments in the Philippines
• Decreasing injuries happening during basketball games
• Describing healthcare practices of people in a barangay
• Improving workplace safety in a Welding Area
• Feasibility of establishing food delivery business in a certain place
• Describing the market share of a certain existing product as bases for market boost

STEM TECHVOC

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SPORTS

ABM ARTS AND DESIGN

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