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I can distinguish between Inquiry and

Research and recognize their connection to
each other..
What is an Inquiry?

- is a learning process that motivates

you to obtain knowledge or information
about people, places, things or events
through asking questions about
something you are inquisitive about.

- it requires you to collect data,

meaning, facts and information about
the object of your inquiry and examine
such data carefully.
Foundation of Inquiry
Inquiry-based learning gets its support from these
three educational theories serving as its foundation:

John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for

exploratory and reflective thinking;

Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development that

stresses the essence of scaffolding;

Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’ varied world

perceptions for their own interpretative thinking of
people and things around them.
Benefits of Inquiry-based Learning

1. Elevates interpretative thinking

2. Improves student learning abilities
3. Widens learners’ vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-solving acts
5. Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge
6. Encourages cooperative learning
7. Provides mastery of procedural knowledge
8. Encourages higher-order thinking strategies
9. Hastens conceptual understanding
What is a 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.

-It 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 many things.
 Characteristics of Research
1. Accuracy. It must give correct or accurate data.
2. Objectiveness. It must deal with facts, not with mere opinions
arising from assumptions, generalizations, predictions or
conclusions.
3. Timeliness. It must work on a topic that is fresh, new and
interesting to the present society.
4. Relevance. Its topic must be instrumental in improving society
or in solving problems affecting the lives of people in a
community.
5. Clarity. It must succeed in expressing its central point or
discoveries by using simple, direct, concise and correct language.
6. Systematic. It must take place in an organized or orderly
manner.
 Purposes of Research

1. To learn how to work independently

2. To learn how to work scientifically or systematically
3. To have an in-depth knowledge of something.
4. To elevate your mental abilities by letting you think in
Higher-Order thinking strategies
5. To improve your reading and writing skills
6. To be familiar with basic tools of research and the various
techniques of gathering data and of presenting research
findings
7. To free yourself, to a certain extent, from the domination or
strong influence of a single textbook or of the professors’
lone viewpoint or spoon feeding
Formulate a set of convergent and divergent question about the painting below. Find
answers to the questions through a research.
 Types of Research
Based on Application of Research method

Pure research- deals with concepts,

principles or abstract things. It aims to
increase knowledge about something.
Applied Research- applying the chosen
research to societal problems or issues.
Action research – studies an ongoing
practice of a school, organization,
community or institution for the purpose
of obtaining results that will bring
improvements in the system.
 Based on the purpose of the
Research

Descriptive Research- aims at defining

or giving a verbal portrayal or picture of
a person, thing, event, group, situation,
etc…

Correlational Research- shows

relationships or connectedness of two
factors, circumstances or agents.
Explanatory Research- elaborates
or explains not just the reasons
behind the relationship behind the
two factors, but also the ways by
which such relationships exist.

Exploratory Research- it’s purpose

is to find out how reasonable or
possible it is to conduct a research
study on a certain topic
 Approaches to Research

Scientific/positive – discover and measure

information as well as observes control
variables in an impersonal manner
(numbers)

Naturalistic – deals with qualitative data

that speak of how people behave towards
their surrounding (words)

Triangulation – free to gather and analyze

data using multiple methods, allowing you
to combine or mix up research approaches
 Identify the specific type of research for
each given topic by entering the letter of
Action Pure Applied Explanatory Descriptive Correlation the research in the correct column.

a. Theory of relativity
b. University belt street foods
c. Landline vs. cellphone
d. Reasons behind tuition fee increases
e. Manila flash floods solutions
f. College assessment practices
g. Critical thinking and creative thinking
in learning teaching situations
h. The why and how of internet use
i. Effects of Korean telenovelas on
Filipino TV viewers
j. Digital Age
k. Teaching through Powerpoint
Presentations
l. Archimedes’ principle of buoyancy