Alliah Celine A.

Cabrera September 21, 2021

12 – STEM D
PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2
Q1 – LAS 1: DESCRIBING CHARACTERISTICS, STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, AND KINDS
OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

Elicit
Directions: Complete the concept map by writing words or phrases related to the middle word.
Do this activity in your activity notebook. Use the lifeline in the box for your answer.

FINDING INFORMATION
INVESTIGATING
UNDERSTAND THINGS
UNDERSTAND EVENTS AROUND US
DISCOVERING TRUTH

SEEKING INFORMATION
INQUIRY
AUGMENTING KNOWLEDGE
SOLVING PROBLEMS
RESOLVING DOUBTS

Assessment
Directions: Put a tick (/) if it describes the characteristics of a Quantitative Research.

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Engage
Directions: Write a paragraph for each topic below using the identified words in your previous
activity (elicit) in your activity notebook.
‘RESEARCH’
The systematic and formal inquiry and study of materials and sources in order to
establish facts and draw new conclusions is referred to as research. A research project could
involve acquiring fresh data or putting an idea to the test. Research studies also uncover truths
by digging deeper and gathering additional evidence to back them up.

‘INQUIRY’
Simply said, inquiry is the practice of looking for answers to questions. An inquiry's
principal goal is to solve issues, clear up doubts, or add to knowledge. Different forms of
inquiry may exist for different subjects or fields. Asking questions, exploring answers or
solutions, solving challenges, and communicating the answers in the most appropriate form
are the most crucial aspects of inquiry.

Assessment
Directions: TRUE or FALSE. Write QUANTITATIVE if the sentence is true and QUALITATIVE if
it is false in your activity notebook.
1. QUANTITATIVE 6. QUALITATIVE
2. QUANTITATIVE 7. QUANTITATIVE
3. QUANTITATIVE 8. QUANTITATIVE
4. QUANTITATIVE 9. QUANTITATIVE
5. QUALITATIVE 10. QUANTITATIVE
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Explore
Directions: Read each statement in the Across and Down clues below and write the correct
word/answer in your activity notebook.
1. RESEARCH 6. EXPERIMENTAL
2. INQUIRY 7. CORRELATIONAL
3. QUANTITATIVE 8. DESCRIPTIVE
4. DESCRIPTIVE 9. QUALITATIVE
5. QUASI 10. QUANTITATIVE

Assessment
Directions: Describe the following kinds of quantitative research.
1. Descriptive – Descriptive research is a type of research that focuses on describing the
features of the population or subject under investigation. This methodology emphasizes the
research subject's "what" rather than its "why."
2. Correlational – Correlational research is a non-experimental research strategy that uses
statistical analysis to investigate the relationship between two variables.
3. Quasi-experimental - A Quasi-experiment is a research design that tries to prove a cause-
and-effect link. The key difference between this and a real experiment is that the groups are
not assigned at random.
4. Experimental - Experimental research is a study that follows a scientific research strategy to
the letter. It consists of a hypothesis, a researcher-controllable variable, and variables that may
be measured, calculated, and compared.

Elaborate
Directions: Identify the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative research. Write your answers
in your activity notebook.

Strengths
 Findings can be generalized if selection process is well-designed
 Sample is representative of study population
 Data can be very consistent, precise and reliable
 Relatively easy to analyze
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Weaknesses
 Related secondary data is sometimes not available
 Difficult to understand context of a phenomenon
 Data may not be robust enough to explain complex issues
 Qualitative data will be needed to make meaning out of the numbers

Assessment
Directions: Answer the following questions comprehensively. Write your answers in your
activity notebook.
1. Discuss the strengths of a Quantitative Research.
Quantitative research provides for a larger study with a larger number of people,
allowing the results to be more generalized. Allows for more objectivity and precision in the
results. Quantitative approaches, in general, are intended to produce data summaries that
support generalizations about the topic under investigation. Quantitative research usually
entails a small number of variables and many cases, as well as the use of pre-determined
processes to ensure validity and reliability. By following well-established guidelines, the study
may be reproduced, examined, and compared to other similar studies. Personal bias can be
minimized by not being in proximity with the participating participants and using approved
computational approaches. You can summarize large amounts of data and perform
comparisons across categories and over time.
2. Discuss the weaknesses of a Quantitative Research.
Quantitative data is more efficient and capable of testing theories, but contextual
information may be overlooked. It adopts an inflexible discovery process because it takes a
static and rigid approach. The formulation of standard questions by researchers might result in
structural bias and false representation, in which the data reflects the researcher's viewpoint
rather than the viewpoint of the participant. In addition, the findings provide less information
about behavior, attitudes, and motivation. A significantly smaller and occasionally shallow
dataset may be collected by researchers. In order to apply a level of control to the activity, the
research is frequently conducted in an unnatural, artificial environment. This level of control
may not be present in the real world, resulting in "laboratory results" rather than "real world
results." Predetermined responses may or may not reflect how people truly feel about a subject,
and in other situations, they may just be the closest match to the prior assumption.
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Evaluate
Directions: Identify what kinds of quantitative research design are the following research
topics. Write your answers in your activity notebook.
1. Correlational
2. Descriptive
3. Experimental
4. Descriptive
5. Descriptive

Assessment
Directions: Identify what is being asked in each number. Write your answer after the
statement.
1. It highlights numerical analysis of data hoping that the numbers yield unbiased results that
can be generalized to some larger population and explain a particular
observation. – Qualitative Research
2. It suggests that the data concerned can be analyzed in terms of numbers. – Quantitative
Research
3. This kind of research derives conclusion from observations and manifestations that already
occurred in the past and now compared to some dependent variables. – Causal-Comparative
or Ex-post Facto
4. It describes the norm level of characteristics for a given behavior. – Normative
5. In this design, the researcher can collect more data, either by scheduling more observations
or finding more existing measures. – Quasi-experimental Design
6. It is conducted by researchers whose aim would be to find out the direction, associations
and/or relationship between different variables or groups of respondents
under study. - Correlational
7. It refers to the overall strategy that you choose in order to integrate the different
components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby ensuring you will effectively
address the research problem. – Methodological
8. It controls for both time-related and group-related threats. Two features mark true
experiments: two or more differently treated groups; and random assignment to
these groups. – True-experimental Design
9. All variables in the study can contribute to the over-all prediction in an equation that adds
together the predictive power of each identified variable. – Multiple Regression Prediction
Study
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10. Its main purpose is to observe, describe and document aspects of a situation as it naturally
occurs and sometimes to serve as a starting point for hypothesis generation or theory
development. – Descriptive Research Design

Reflection

Concepts Learned:
In this topic, I have learned that Research is the systematic and formal inquiry and
study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and draw new conclusions is referred
to as research. A research project could involve acquiring fresh data or putting an idea to the
test. Research studies also uncover truths by digging deeper and gathering additional evidence
to back them up.
Moreover, I’ve learned that a Quantitative Research is the process of collecting and
interpreting numerical data is referred to as quantitative research; it's commonly used to
uncover patterns, averages, predictions, and cause-and-effect correlations between the
variables being investigate. On the other hand, non-numerical data, such as language, is
collected, analyzed, and interpreted in Qualitative Research. It can be used to learn how a
person subjectively perceives and interprets their social environment.
In addition, I’ve known about the strengths and weaknesses of Quantitative Research.
Its strengths are findings can be generalized if selection process is well-designed, sample is
representative of study population, data can be very consistent, precise and reliable, and
relatively easy to analyze. And its weaknesses are related secondary data is sometimes not
available, difficult to understand context of a phenomenon, data may not be robust enough to
explain complex issues, and qualitative data will be needed to make meaning out of the
numbers.

Concepts Unlearned:
I don’t have any concepts unlearned in this particular module for the reason that I have
already understood all the matters that were tackled in the discussion.