Learning Outcomes :

explain your understanding of the term

“inquiry”;
• outline all the ideas you have learned
about inquiry;
• enumerate the benefits of inquiry-
based learning;
• compose an essay to prove the extent
of your understanding of inquiry.
What is inquiry?
• Inquiry is a learning
process that motivates you
to obtain knowledge or
information about people,
things, places, or events.
You do this by investigating
or asking questions about
something you are
inquisitive about.
Example of Inquiry:
•Science Experiments

•Field Trips

•Classroom Debates

•Projects

•Group Work
Benefits of Inquiry-Based Learning
• Elevates interpretative thinking
through graphic skills.
• Improves student learning abilities
• Widens learners’ vocabulary
• Facilitates problem-solving acts
• Increases social awareness and
cultural knowledge
Benefits of Inquiry-Based Learning
• Encourages cooperative learning
• Provides mastery of procedural
knowledge
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DIRECTION: compose an essay to prove the

extent of your understanding of inquiry. Make
it five (5) to eight (8) sentences.
Learning Outcome:
• examine things appealing to senses
to hone your investigative thinking;
• discuss the characteristics of
research;
• classify research based on a set of
criteria;
• differentiate the various types of
research; and
Learning Outcome:
• describe completed or published
research studies based on concepts
learned about research.
What is Research?
• Research is a process of executing
various mental acts for
discovering and examining facts
and information to prove the
accuracy or truthfulness of your
claims or conclusions about the
topic of your research.
 What is Research?
• Research requires you to inquire or investigate
about your chosen research topic by asking
questions that will make you engage yourself in
top-level thinking strategies of interpreting,
analyzing, synthesizing, criticizing, appreciating,
or creating to enable you to discover truths
about the many things you tend to wonder
about the topic of your research work.
(Litchman 2013)
Prieto, et.al. (2017) stated that the following
are the major characteristics of research:
• Empirical
• Systematic
• Controlled
• Employs hypothesis
• Analytical
• Objective
• Original work
Prieto, et.al. (2017) also added that the following
are involved in the Research
Processes:
• Define research problem:
• Review of related literature:
• Formulating hypothesis:
• Research design:
• Collecting data:
• Analyzing data:
• Interpret and report:
Ethical Codes and Policies for Research,
Resnik, 2007
• Honesty
• Objectivity
• Integrity
• Carefulness
• Openness
• Confidentiality
• Responsible Publication
Ethical Codes and Policies for Research,
Resnik, 2007
• Responsible Mentoring
• Respect Colleagues
• Social Responsibility
• Non- Discrimination
• Legality
• Respect of Intellectual Property
• Human Subject
Purpose of Research
• To learn how to work independently
• To learn how to work scientifically or
systematically
• To have an in-depth knowledge of
something
• To improve your reading and writing
skills
Purpose of Research
• To be familiar with the basic tools of
research and the various techniques of
gathering data and of presenting
research findings
• To free yourself, to a certain extent, from
the domination or strong influence of a
single textbook or of the professor’s lone
viewpoint or spoon feeding
Type of Research
• Based on Application of Research
Method
• Pure Research
• Applied Research
• Based on Purpose of the Research
• Descriptive Research
• Correlational Research
• Explanatory Research
• Exploratory Research
• Action Research
Type of Research
• Based on the types of data needed.
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative Research

• Data
• Primary Data
• Secondary Data
Approach to Research
• Scientific approach
-which you discover and measure
information as well as observe and
control variables in an impersonal
manner. Data given by these
techniques are expressed through
numbers, which means that this
method is suitable for quantitative
research.
Approach to Research
• Naturalistic Approach
- uses words.
- This research approach directs
you to deal with qualitative data that
speak of how people behave toward
their surroundings.
Quiz Number 1
1. It is a systematic inquiry that
describes, explains, predicts, and
controls the observed phenomenon.
A. Research C. Thesis
B. Action Plan D. Case Study
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2. It is a characteristic of research
that is based on direct experience
or observation by the researcher.
A. Objective C. Systematic
B. Empirical D. Controlled
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3. It is a characteristic of a research
that follows orderly and sequential
procedures, based on valid
procedure and principle.
A. Objective C. Systematic
B. Empirical D. Controlled
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4. It is a process of naturalistic
inquiry that seeks an in-depth
understanding of social phenomena
within their natural setting.
A. Qualitative C. Hypothesis
B. Quantitative D. Variables
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6. It is an ethics of research that gives proper
acknowledgment or credit to all researchers.
A. Intellectual Property
B. Confidentiality
C. Responsible Mentoring
D. Social Responsible
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7. It is a characteristic of research
that refers to the unbiased and
logical.
A. Objective C. Analytical
B. Empirical D. Original Works
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8. Research must requires its own
examination and produces the
data needed to complete the study.
A. Original works C. Integrity
B. Objectivity D. Openness
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10. Research much as possible
minimize risks that involve human
lives, dignity, and privacy.
A. Human Subject C. Openness
B. Integrity D. Original Works
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