MODULE 1

NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
by: Robbie D. Pineda
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The Importance of Research in
Daily Life
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What to Know
Research is significant in our everyday
activities. It is the result of a thinking process
that involves students in questioning
techniques or models.
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.
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What to Know
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)
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Inquiry Model

Source: Focus on
Inquiry:
A Teacher’s Guide
to Implementing
Inquiry-based
Learning.
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How does inquiry and research

facilitate in finding solutions to real-
life problems and develop critical
thinking skills and lifelong learning?
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Importance of Research in Daily Life

 It promotes people’s interdependence or
interpersonal relationships that the world
needs for solving its societal problems.
 Research studies happen in any field of
knowledge. Anthropology, Business,
Communication, Education, Engineering,
Law, and Nursing, among others, turn in a
big number of research studies that reflect
varied interests of people.
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Importance of Research in Daily Life

 Resulting from internal aspects, people cannot
measure worldviews but can know them through
numbers. Obtaining world knowledge in this
manner directs you to do a research called
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.
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Importance of Research in Daily Life

 In a qualitative research, the reality is conditioned by
society and people’s intentions are involved in explaining
cause-effect relationships. Things are studied in their
natural setting, enough for you to conclude that qualitative
research is an act of inquiry or investigation of real-life
events.
 The importance of any researches in any of these two
areas in business are to increase man’s understanding of
the truths in line with markets and marketing activities,
making him more intelligent in arriving at decisions about
these aspects of his life. Research types that are useful
for these areas are the basic and applied research.
(Feinberg 2013)
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Importance of Research in Daily Life

 Qualitative research is important in promoting a
full understanding of human behavior or
personality traits in their natural setting.
 Research is instrumental for positive societal
changes.
 It engenders respect for people’s individuality as
it demands the researcher’s careful and attentive
stand toward people’s world views.
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Importance of Research in Daily Life

 Research helps in a way of understanding and
interpreting social interactions.
 Research increases the researcher’s interest in
the study as it includes the researcher’s
experience or background knowledge in
interpreting verbal and visual data.
• It offers multiple ways of acquiring and examining
knowledge about something.
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What to Process

Compose an essay
regarding the use of
research in their daily life as
a student.
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THANK YOU!