NATURE OF INQUIRY AND RESEARCH
set of activities that must be accompliedhed
Experiment/investigation/inquiry/product development
- Systematic inquiry that is designed to collect,
analyze, and interpret dat to understand,
describe, or predict phenomenon.
- Searching for knowledge – in a nutshell
- Scientific, methodical, and well strudctured
- Ability to Find answers and solutions to real-
world problems
IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF A RESEARCH
1. Research gathers relevant information and produces
novel knowledge
2. Research improves the quality of life
3. Research promotes understanding of history
4. Research contributes to one’s personal and
professional development
RESEARCH IS A WAY OF LIFE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD RESEARCH:
1. Realistic as it requires you to gather data and obtain
as mch information about the area of study
2. Analytical as the process is conducted ina scientific,
systematic, and sturtured manners using standar
methods. It then yields results which are validate
accordingly.
3. Provides possible solutions to real-world problems
and offers potential technological advancements and
developments.
4. Offers practical, innovative, and novel solutions and
contributions to different bodies of knowledge
5. Scholarly work as it follows the highest ethical
standards.
RESEARCH PROCESS - methodological
To produce a goods, research, a research design is
necessary.
- Research design is a plan reflecting the series or
until the completion of the research study.
1. define your topic
2. formulate your problem statement
3. conduct a review of related literature – research
gaps.
4. determine the theoretical framework for your
study
5. develop a research strategy or design
6. collect your data
7. validate your research design and analyze your
data
8. write and revise your research paper
9. defending and disseminating the results of your
study (publish).
Ethics in Research
Ethics – is a set of moral principles that distinguish
between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
Establishing good relationship with your subjects
and interwviewees, among others.
- Should be trteted with respect and should be
informed about their righs as interviewees.
- Nature, of their participation is volutanry and
they can withdraw anytime
- Response should eb kept confidential
- Should inform about the study
- Should not share information without their
consent
Plagiarism – act iof copying another person’s work,
ideas, or words without appropriate acknowledgement
of the riginal source
Falsification – maneuvering data in such a way that
another person will be inclined to belived that said data
is true and correct.
Fabrication – inventing or making up data and then
reporting it as true.