PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2

NATURE OF INQUIRY AND REASEARCH

There are many things you want to know in this world. Living and nonliving things including the events –
their nature or qualities make you wonder continuously, frequently or quickly. Marveling at them, you
put to continue yourself in a course of situation where you seem to be grappling with different
problems. Questions after questions on the different aspects of the things of your curiosity prod you to
move, act, or do something to find answers to your questions or to discover truths about your
inferences or speculations on such thing. Behaving like an investigator, asking and seeking answers, to
some questions about the thing you find puzzling indicates the true nature of inquiry research

At the end of the topic the students should be able to:

1. Discuss the characteristics, strengths, weaknesses and kinds of quantitative

research;
Quantitative research makes you focus your mind on specific things by means of statistics that
involve collection and study of numerical data and it will able you to examining facts and
information about such person, thing, place, or event appealing to your senses. But this kind of
research requires you to focus your full attention on the object of your study. The two kinds of
quantitative research is
a. Experimental – these are under this kind of research true experimental, quasi-experimental, and
single subject, and per-experimental.
b. Non-experimental – on the other hand these are sub type survey, historical, observational,
correlational, descriptive, and comparative research

2. Discuss the importance of quantitative research across the field; and

3. Discuss the nature of variables.

Based on your knowledge and understanding. Define the following words below.

a. Probe

b. Ponder

c. Random
d. Inquiry

e. Research