Name: Christopher Orejas

Course/year: BSIT Automotive III

Module 4

Learning Activity

Critical Thinking Questions

1. Differentiate duplication of study and replication of study. What is the purpose of

replicating a study?
 Duplication represents inadvertent, unconscious, or more rarely, deliberate repetition of
research efforts, thus not serving a need to confirm or otherwise verify conclusions from
previous research undertaking.
 Replication is a term referring to the repetition of a research study generally with
different situations and different subjects to determine if the basic findings of the original
study can be applied to other participation and circumstances.
 A replication study attempts to validate the findings of a prior piece of research. By doing
so that prior research is confirmed as being both accurate the broadly applicable, since
the replication study typically changes one or more variables of the original study such as
sample population industry sector.

2. Why is abstract required for any completed research study?

 Abstract is the highlight major points of your research and explain why your works is
important what your purpose was how you went about your project what learned and
what you concluded.

3. When are secondary sources use in collecting data? What are their limitations?
 Secondary data refers to data that is collected by someone other than the primary user.
Common sources of secondary data for social science include censuses information
collected by government departments, organizational records and data that was originally
collected for other research purpose.
 Secondary data can be general and vague and may not really help companies with
decision making. The information and data may not be accurate. The source of the data
must always be checked. The data maybe old and out of date. The sample used to
generate the secondary data may be small. The company publishing the data may not be
reputable.

Assessment
1. What areas that fit into these broad topics could possibly be investigated? Identify three
narrower aspects of the following broad topics.
a. Education
 For the broad subject education your topic might be to investigate whether
female students in all girls schools performed better academically than their
counterparts at co-ed schools.
b. Technology
c. Agriculture
2. How could you expand these topics to find more information?
a. Urban planting in the city
 Add examples
 Address varying viewpoints
 Clarifying statements
 Include additional sources
 Use quotations
3. Imagine that you have been assigned the following topics. Think of 5 keywords you
might use to look for information on each.
a. How does air quality affect our health?
 Lung cancer
 Psychological complication
 Fetal growth
 Chronic bronchitis
 Decreased lung function
b. How can welfare reform help poor children?
 Child support
 Supplemental security
 Food stamps
 Spent more money to assist poor
 Provide shelter
c. How can computer software improve agriculture in the Philippines?
 Smart agriculture
 Satellite remote sensing
 Philippine development plan
 Vertical farms
 Urban agriculture
d. What are the barriers to peace in Maguindanao?
 Security terrorism
 Conflict and security decolonization and colonization
 Islamism
 Mindanao peace talk
 SCivil war termination