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MIDTERM ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

Second Semester
Prepared By: Mr. Robert John G. Hermoso, LPT

Name: ___________________________________________ Grade & Section: ________________ Score: ________

General Direction: Read and understand the test questions carefully. Strictly no erasures.

I. Read the following sentences. Put a check (✔) on the space before the number if you think that the
sentence is a description of research. Put a cross (❌) if you think that it is not. (2 points each)
1. Research must be hurriedly conducted.
2. There should be enough data before conducting research.
3. Research must observe a step-by-step process.
4. The researchers must have the final say in his or her findings.
5. A person’s opinion is acceptable and considered as an answer to the questions asked by the
researcher.
6. Any concern or issue confronted by the students is researchable.
7. The causes why students fail in quizzes are worth researching.
8. The student-researcher must read the literature related to the problem he or she is studying.
9. The researcher must avoid listening to another researcher to have an objective view of his or her
study.
10. The steps in the conducting research are patterned.

II. Write TRUE if the statement is correct, and FALSE if it is incorrect. (2 points each)
1. Research entails an investigation of new facts leading to the discovery of new ideas, methods and
improvements.
2. The microsystem is the composition of chapters organized in a logical and scientific manner.
3. In settings like the community, school, or workplace, unusual phenomena may happen and can
turn into potential problems.
4. Plagiarism constitutes claiming another person’s idea or intellectual property as one’s own.
5. Research provides an artistic basis for any practice or methodology in any field or discipline.
6. According to Crawford, researchers serve different roles in a study such as principal investigator,
member of a research team, financier of the study, among others.
7. Research aims to advance the personal and professional qualifications of a practitioner.
8. One of the goals of research is to produce results-based practice.
9. Every action conducted by a professional must have a rationale.
10. Research promotes cost-effectiveness through documentation.

III. Identify what is being asked. Write your answer before each item. (3 points each)
1. It uses a wide and deep-angle lens, examining human choice, and behavior as it occurs naturally in
all of its detail.
2. This author define qualitative research which is based on qualitative data and tends to follow the
exploratory mode of the scientific book.
3. A kind of qualitative research where researchers attempts to understand that people experience a
certain phenomenon.
4. Studies like the culture of Mangyan, Tausug, Badjaos, Igorots, or Maranaos are examples of
_________________ studies.
5. This is sometimes called narrative research because it studies “the text of the past”.
6. It undertake on identifying and coding emergent themes within data.
 7. It is a study of “naturally occurring discourse”.
8. It is also known as theory of knowledge.
9. It is being called as the nature of reality or truth.
10. In what perspective where understanding and appreciating particular groups and individuals like
to inform the local policy.

IV. List down things being asked.

1. Types of Research
2. Characteristics of Research
3. Classification of Research
4. Ethical Issues
5. Research Areas of Interests
6. Strengths of Qualitative Research (at least 5)
7. Kinds of Qualitative Research
8. Purpose of Research

V. Elaborate your ideas with at least five (5) sentences. (10 points each)
1. Why do we do research?

2. What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research?

VI. Give the outline of writing research paper (with label of chapters and contents).

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
- Gene Fowler