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INQUIRIES, INVESTIGATIONS AND IMMERSION

Quarter 2- Week 1- Learning Activity Sheet 1
Brainstorming for Research Agenda

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INQUIRIES, INVESTIGATIONS AND IMMERSION
Grade 12 Quarter 3 – LAS 1: Brainstorming for Research Agenda

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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET _______ (Number)

Name of Student: __________________________________________________

Learning Area – Grade Level: ________________________________________

Date: ____________________________________________________________

I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT
Preparing for a research agenda should be planned well. It is a formal plan of action that
summarizes specific issues and ideas in a subset of any field of study. Keep in your mind that
research agenda are adaptable, and you are likely to modify the contents.

II. LEARNING SKILLS

Generally, at the end of the module, you are expected to explain. Specifically, you are
most likely to exhibit the following competencies:

1. Prepare a plan and focus on issues and ideas in their respective field. (week 1)
2. Learn to work collaboratively to other.

III. ACTIVITIES
Being a good researcher, you should possess a lot of virtues and skills to face all the
challenges along your way in conducting a research. One of the required task is to develop a
research agenda.
Research Agenda
It’s a plan that emphasizes on issues and ideas in a subset of your field. You cannot study
everything in your field during your time in college schooling, so decide what to focus on now,
and what to resolve until another day.
How to Get Started with Your Research Agenda
Instructions: Read the sentences below, write the word easy if it is easy for you to do and
difficult if it is difficult that you need help from your groupmates or teacher. If your answer is
easy, write how you can do the task if it is difficult for you, write your questions about the tasks.
Write your answer below each task in a separate sheet of paper.
Talk with your group members about your general interests. Use members as a resource to
find out which topics are over-studied and where additional work is needed.
Easy/Difficult: Explain____________________________________________________

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 If there are groupmates with similar or overlapping interests, get their perspectives as well.
Easy/Difficult: Explain___________________________________________________
Read a great deal, be open to reading research outside your immediate areas of interests and
seeing how they link to your own areas.
Easy/Difficult: Explain___________________________________________________.
Be sure to follow up on citations that are interesting or intriguing.
Easy/Difficult: Explain___________________________________________________.
Identify key authors relevant to your interests. Read their scholarship and understand the work
that has informed their research.
Easy/Difficult: Explain___________________________________________________.
Source: Esther Baraceros, Practical Research 2, Rex Bookstore, Philippines, 2020

Instruction: These write down steps is easily understood and applied in research agenda by
analyzing the corresponding questions. Answer the question below for each step to help you to
prepare research agenda. Write your answer in one whole sheet of paper.
Write-down-steps

1. Refine your focus. What do you want to work on?

2. Trends, baselines, research groups and programs. What is happening?
3. Field of interest. What is already known?

4. A topic, a method, an approach. Can you identify a research question to address?

5. Refine, refine, refine. Venn diagrams, concept maps and discussions with peers may help in
with focusing your agenda on a specific problem.
What is the Title or Problem to be conducted?
Write your answer in this manner of presentation:
1. What do you want to work on? Answer:___________________________

2. What is happening? Answer: ________________________________________

3. What is already known? Answer: _____________________________________
4. Can you identify a research question to address? Answer: _________________

5. What is the Title or problem to be conducted? Answer: ____________________

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Activity 1. Let’s Do the Challenge!
Direction: Read and answer the questions below and write your answer on a separate sheet of
paper.

What research topics are you passionate Choose one among the given general
about? topics. What specific or subtopics can you
give?
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
What specific theme would best describe What are the possible resources in your
your research? study?
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3

Guide Questions:
1. What possible learning you gain in this activity?
2. Do you find the activity challenging? Why?
Activity 2: The Power of C (Connect, Collaborate and Communicate)!
After you finished the 1st activity, your next task is to identify the role of connecting,
collaborating and communicating in conducting a research. Answer this activity carefully so that
you can develop a good research agenda.
1. To whom do you need to connect with? What are the importance of those connections?

2. To whom do you need to collaborate with? How collaboration is plays an importance in

conducting a research?
3. How does communication affect the failure and success of your research?

Process Questions:
1. What are the difficulties you encountered in this activity?
2. Why every researcher should know the research agenda?
Activity 3: Design your Research Agenda!

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 Congratulations! You are now on the 3rd activity of this module. The first two activities
are assessments to check how ready you are as a Senior High School researcher. Now you can
make your research agenda by answering the guide questions below on a separate sheet of
paper.
Guide Questions:
1. What is the focus of your study? Why?

2. What is the proposed title of your research? Why?

3. What/Who will be the resources that can help to make your research valid and reliable?
4. Do you think you are now ready to start to conduct of your research? Cite evidences of the
preparations you made.

IV. EVALUATION
Let us see what you have learned in this topic.
Directions: Write the quality of a good researcher that described in the sentences below write
your answer in a separate sheet of paper.
______1. There are lot of your group mates cannot understand the importance of your study.
______2. The purpose of acknowledgement on your preliminaries.
______3. As you can notice the panelists are so meticulous on our manuscript.
______4. I am curious how the OFW survive amid the pandemic they suffered.
______5. The researcher crafted with a good recommendation.
VI. ANSWER KEY
Activities 1, 2, 3 answers may vary
Evaluation
1. Knowledge, 2. Recognition, 3. Scholarly approach, 4. Interest, 5. Recognition

V. REFERENCES
Brainstorming, https://www.cleanpng.com/free/brainstorming.html
Collins, English Dictionary, 2020, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english
Esther Baraceros, Practical Research 2, Rex Bookstore, Philippines, 2016

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