IQUIRY

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. It requires you to collect
data, meaning, facts, and information about the object of your inquiry, and examine
such data carefully. In your analysis, you execute varied thinking strategies that range
from lower-order to higher-order thinking skills such as inferential, critical, integrative,
and creative thinking. These are top-level thinking strategies that you ought to perform
in discovering and understanding the object of your inquiry. Engaging yourself in many
ways of thinking, you come to conclude that inquiry is an active learning process.
Solving a problem, especially social issues, does not only involve yourself but
other members of the society too. Hence, inquiry, as a problem-solving technique,
includes cooperative learning because any knowledge from members of the society
can help to make the solution. Whatever knowledge you have about your world bears
the influence of your cultural, sociological, institutional, or ideological understanding of
the world. (Badke 2012)

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. 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).

Qualitative Research
requires non-numerical data, which means that the research uses words rather
than numbers to express the results, the inquiry, or investigation about people's
thoughts, beliefs, feelings, views, and lifestyles regarding the object of the study. These
opinionated answers from people are not measurable; so, verbal language is the right
way to express your findings in a Qualitative research.
This is a research type that puts premium or high value on people's thinking or
point of view conditioned by their personal traits. As such, it usually takes place in soft
sciences like social sciences, politics, economics, humanities, education, psychology,
nursing, and all business-related subjects. But also for you, the researcher, because of
your personal involvement in every stage of your research. For instance, during
interviews, you tend to admire or appreciate people's ideas based on their answers or
your observations and analysis of certain objects. By carefully looking at or listening to
the subject or object in a natural setting, you become affected by their expressions of
what they think and feel about a topic. (Coghan 2014)

SAMPLING
In research, sampling is a word that refers to your method or process of selecting
respondents or people to answer questions meant to yield data for a research study.
The chosen ones constitute the sample through which you will derive facts and
evidence to support the claims or conclusions propounded by your research problem.
The bigger group from where you choose the sample is called population, and
sampling frame is the term used to mean the list of the members of such population
from where you will get the sample. (Paris 2013)

OBSERVATION
Observation is a technique of gathering data whereby you personally
watch, interact, or communicate with the subjects of your research. It lets
you record what people exactly do and say in their everyday life on Earth.
Through this data gathering technique, proofs to support your claims or
conclusions about your topic are obtained in a natural setting. Witnessing
the subjects manages themselves in a certain situation and interpreting or
expressing your thoughts and feelings about your observation, you tend to
deal with the observation results in a subjective manner. Some say this
element of subjectivity makes observation inferior to other techniques.
(Meng 2012)

INTERVIEW
In research, interview is a data gathering technique that makes you verbally ask
the subjects or respondents questions to give answers to what your research study is
trying to look for. Done mostly in qualitative research studies, interview aims at knowing
what the respondents think and feel about the topic of your research.