MRS. CLAIR M.

MAGTANGOB
SUBJECT TEACHER
INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING

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 WHAT IS INQUIRY
-is a learning process that
motivates you
EARTH SCIENCE
to obtain
knowledge or information
BY: ERNIE C. SINGSON, MEPHY

about people, things, places,

or events.
HOW DO YOU THIS?
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GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OR
FOUNDATION OF INQUIRY
1. John Dewey’s Theory

2. Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of

Proximal Development (ZPD)

3. Bruner’s Theory
 BENEFITS OF INQUIRY BASED-
LEARNING
1. Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic
skills
2. Improve student learning ability

3. Widens learners’ vocabulary

4. Facilitates problem-solving acts

 BENEFITS OF INQUIRY BASED-
LEARNING
5. Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge

6. Encourages cooperative learning

7. Provides mastery of procedural knowledge

8. Encourages higher-order thinking strategies

PRINCIPLES OF
QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
 Quantitative Research
•Quantitative research stands for an
systematic empirical investigation of
quantitative phenomenon and properties;

•The aim of quantitative research is to

develop a hypothesis pertaining to
phenomena;
 Quantitative Research
•Numeric analysis and measurement are the key
parts of quantitative research that state the
fundamental connection between observation
and analytical statement;

•Quantitative methods are mostly used to justify

the hypotheses and draw a general conclusion on
selected hypotheses;

•Statistics, tables and graphs, are often used to

present the results of these methods.
▪Quantitative research aims at (causal) explanation. It
answers primarily to why?
▪Both qualitative and quantitative research can aim at
description of built environment.
▪Complementary - not contradictory
▪different kinds of research questions and objects of
research
▪different perspectives on the same research objects /
questions (methodological triangulation)
QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE
 QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
• The quantitative approach views phenomena as being
amenable to objective study i.e. able to be measured.
• It has its roots in positivism
• It is the whole design:
• Assumptions
• Process of inquiry
• Type of data collected
• Measuring of findings
QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
•Attempts to explain phenomena by
collecting and analysing numerical data
•Tells you if there is a “difference” but not
necessarily why
•Data collected are always numerical and
analysed using statistical methods
 QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
•Variables are controlled as much as possible
(RCD as the gold standard) so we can eliminate
interference and measure the effect of any
change
•Randomisation to reduce subjective bias
•If there are no numbers involved, its not
quantitative
 PROS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH?
•Clear interpretations
•Make sense of and organize perceptions
•Careful scrutiny (logical, sequential, controlled)
•Reduce researcher bias
•Results may be understood by individuals in
other disciplines
CONS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH?
•Can not assist in understanding issues in
which basic variables have not been
identified or clarified
•Only 1 or 2 questions can be studied at a
time, rather than the whole of an event or
experience
•Complex issues (emotional response,
personal values, etc.) can not always be
reduced to numbers
SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES
• Empirical Verification through observation or
experimentation
• Ruling out simple explanations prior to adopting
complex ones
• Cause-Effect
• Probability of response
• Replication of response