YESHA IZABEL G.

BLANCO G-12 ENGELS WEEK 5-6

PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2

ACTIVITY 3
ANSWER

1. Delimitations are expected or forseable factors that hinder the best outlook of the research as you
proceed. Delimitations aim to narrow the scope of a study. For example, the scope may focus on
specific variables, specific participants, specific sites, or narrowed to one type of research design.
2. A statement of the problem is used in research work as a claim that outlines the problem
addressed by a study. A good research problem should address an existing gap in knowledge in
the field and lead to further research.
3.  A statement of the problem helps you outline and present this research problem in a specific,
well-defined manner. 

ACTIVITY 5
ANSWER

1. A research problem is a specific issue, difficulty, contradiction, or gap in knowledge that you will
aim to address in your research. A research question is a focused, concise and significant question
that is arguable and relates to the theme of your research.
2. Researchable problem must be concerned with the relationships between two or more variable
that can be defined and measured or explained
3. Conflicting findings. Conflicting views about a subject are sources of research problems.
4. The crucial problem with quantitative research is the failure of its practitioners to address
adequately the issue of meaning. Discuss.
5. Components of Quantitative Research. Introduction. Qualitative research methods can be an
important part of a social scientist's research repertoire. 
6. Questions to Ask Customers · How did you hear about us? · What made you choose us?
7. A Declarative sentence is a sentence that makes a statement. As its name implies, it provides
information by declaring something. Interrogative sentence is a sentence whose grammatical
form shows that it is a question.
8. Reduce your word count after you have drafted your essay. Keep the word limit in mind as you
write, but don't worry if you go over a bit.
9. It may sound like it’s stating the obvious – but quantitative researchers are primarily interested in
collecting numerical data, which means they are essentially concerned with counting social
phenomena, which will often require concepts to be operationalised.
10. Quantitative researchers tend to want their findings to be representative of wider populations,
rather than the just the sample involved in the study, thus there is a concern with making sure
appropriate sampling techniques will be used.
ACTIVITY 6
ANSWER
 1. 1,3,2,4,5
2. 4,1,2,5,3

ACTIVITY 7
ANSWER

Using Other People's Research and Family Information

Information from family members and other people's research can be wonderful resources, if used
with care.

In fact, gathering information about the family from other relatives is one of the first steps for a
researcher starting work on a family line.  It is from relatives that we glean the personalities of
ancestors, family stories, traditions, and other pieces of information not available from source
documents.  These stories can enrich our understanding of our families and give us vital clues to
help us with our research.  And they help us make connections with our distant cousins and
extended families.

But it is also true that such stories and pieces of information can often have errors or be only
partly true.  And simply accepting another person's research without reviewing it carefully, leads
to errors being enshrined and repeated.  This is one reason I seldom use other family trees found
on-line at places like Ancestry or Family Search.  Because some people accept those trees without
critical review, the errors in them are repeated and spread exponentially.  When I do look at one
of these trees, I check first to see if they've included any sources.  Many times, the only source is
another on-line family tree.  Error upon error upon error continuing to spread.

Another issue that I have encountered over the years is people using others' research without
giving credit.   I've been researching for many years and have always made it a point to share my
findings with anyone who is interested.  I'm happy to do it.  But it is a bit disconcerting to find my
work copied word for word and posted on-line without any acknowledgement of where the
information came from.  I try hard to always cite my sources and always acknowledge the
contributions of others.  If I quote someone, I make it clear that it is taken from another
researcher's work.  If someone has been particularly helpful, I thank them and acknowledge their
contribution.  There are many examples of this throughout my blog. 

When I share my research with others, I include my sources.  This allows them to analyze my
data and determine for themselves if it seems valid to them.  It also acknowledges the portions of
the information that came from other researchers' work.  It is important to give credit to the
person doing the work.  It also allows others to contact the original researcher, if they want to.

When I get information from a family member or another researcher shares their data with me, I
create a source citation that includes the name of the person who provided the data, their address
and/or email, the date I got the information, etc.  If there are no sources cited in the data, I note
that, too, and incorporate a reminder that I should consider the information as simply a CLUE to
be confirmed.

How I handle information from other individuals actually varies quite a bit depending on a
 number of things.  If it is a line I have done a lot of work on, like the Braden line, for example, I
look to see if the information gives me anything new or any clues to pursue that I hadn't noticed
before.  If so, I incorporate those items into my database.  If not, I simply create the appropriate
source citation, give it a number, and file it.

One thing I like to do even when I don't add everything to my database, is to add the line that
leads to the relative who provided the data.  So perhaps the other researcher and I share common
great-grandparents.  I add at least the basic information from those great-grandparents to the
individual who is the source of that family data.

However, most of that research has checked out against primary source documents as being true,
so I give more credence to those items than I would usually do to such undocumented
information.

There are lots of such stories.  Some seem to be the stuff of genealogical legend:  "There were
three brothers who came to America from ....."  Maybe true.  Maybe not.

I look at data from other researchers, family stories, and information from other family members
as very valuable to my research.  I don't, however, accept it as fact.  These things provide
important clues to help me track down primary documents that confirm or disprove what has been
shared.  They are pieces of the puzzle, but not the complete picture

ACTIVITY 8
ANSWER

Graphic organizers integrate both text and visuals. This has been scientifically proven to be an
effective way of teaching and learning. Graphic organizers are visual and graphic displays
that organize ideas and demonstrate relationships between different information and concepts. 

ACTIVITY 9
ANSWER