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Practical Research 1

Week 1 and 2

Prepared by: Cynthia C. Gonzales- Subject Teacher

Name:
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Section:
Practical Research 1
Quarter 3 – Module 1:
Importance of Research in Daily Lives

The module is divided into two lessons, namely:

• Lesson 1 – Research Experience and Knowledge
• Lesson 2 – Importance of Research

After going through this module, you are expected

to:
1. share research experiences and knowledge;
2. explain the different life processes
If you think research is not for you, let me give you some instances that you
might
have applied “researching”. Can you still recall when your Math teacher- asked
you
to solve a mathematical problem that you cannot understand? Thus, no matter
how
you try you cannot find the right answer or concepts behind it Most probably,
you
ask somebody to help you out or you open your cellphone and search for a
video
tutorial. Can you still recall when you first played your favorite online game,
and no
matter how much you try, you still cannot defeat your opponent’s
hero? I think what you did was to ask your friend or an expert to help
you out or you searched on the
internet for answers. The process that you have done is research. You had a
problem,
you established your methods on how to solve your problem, you conducted a
literature review or an actual interview and survey, then you came up with
solutions.
These requires you to search and to overcome your problems. Research flows
in the
same manner. Doing research does not necessarily mean creating
extraordinary
things like Mark Zuckerberg who developed Facebook or even Zhang Yiming
who
created TikTok.
Etymologically, research came from “re” and “search”. "Re" is a prefix that
means
again and search is a word which means to look for. Therefore, research is to
look
for something (Chapman 1979). There are two (2) things that we need to take
note of
in this definition. First, research is not only about the discovery of something
unknown, it is coming up with a new explanation of something that is known.
Second, research is a process. It is a process of searching for something to
solve an
existing problem or difficulty to solve.

Research is also understood as a systematic investigation or inquiry entailing

collection of data, documentation of critical information, analysis,
interpretation of
information (Williams 2007). From the given definition, this highlights the
manner
how research is conducted. It is systematic. The question is, how does it
becomes
systematic and what makes it systematic. The term systematic entails the
structure.
To understand the word system, just imagine your body. Are your hands
located in
your ears? Or is your nose located on your chin? Of course, you will reason out
that
your hands are located to where it should be and your nose is located in the
middle
of your face. The manner of how your body parts are structured and organized
implies the system. Research as systematic means it follows the structure or
method.
Therefore, whenever collecting data, documenting information, analyzing, and
interpreting information are conducted, a particular method is used.
On the other hand, research can be also viewed as the formation of new
knowledge
and the employment of previous or existing knowledge into a new and creative
way
(O’Donnell 2012). Imagine these two (2) scenarios: mother giving birth to a
baby and
a potter molding a pot. The creation of new knowledge can be compared to a
mother
giving birth. The mother stands for the research itself and the baby is new
knowledge.
Thus, through research, new knowledge is born. On the other hand, a potter
molding
a pot can be paralleled to the use of existing knowledge in a new
creative way.

Research is very significant on our lives, it has gradually changed

human life
through history. Here are the five (5) importance of research to our
daily lives.

1. Research aims for truth (Rolfe 2002).

2. Research improves quality of human life (Bornmann 2013).
3. Research saves life(Cancer Research UK 2019).
4. Research gathers necessary information (Igwenagu 2016).
5. Research explores humanity (Lee, Tran, and Lee 2007).