Good day students. Welcome to Practical Research 1 .

My Name is Teacher Viv,How

are you today?, Be happy coz am going to teach you a subject which deal with
problems. Are you ready?
For our first lesson, I will be discussing the nature of inquiry and Research.
But before that . let me introduce to you the Most essential learning competencies
of these subject.
* Shares research experience and knowldege
*Explains th importance of research in daily life
*Describe characteristics, process and ethics of research.

BEFORE THINKING ANY PAPER INTO A RESEARCH PROCESS, IT IS NECESSARY

TO FIRST UNDERSTAND WHAT IS RESEARCH?

Its about collecting data and collecting information. Its about learning new things and
finding new things.
It about broadining your own horizon as well as advancing your knowldge.
Data should be collected, organize and should be summarized.
To deepen your understanding about research. Let me Discuss the first lesson of these
subject the NATURE OF Inquiry and Research.
 NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
INQUIRY – to look for
information by asking
various questions about
the thing you are curious
about
NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
RESEARCH – to discover
truths by investigating on
your chosen topic
scientifically.

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A. NATURE OF
INQUIRY
1. INQUIRY – a learning
process that motivates you
to obtain knowledge or
information about people,
things, places, or events.
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INQUIRY

1. Investigating or asking
questions about something
you are inquisitive about

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INQUIRY
2. Collect data, meaning,
facts, and information
about the object of your
inquiry and examine such
data carefully.
INQUIRY
3. Execute varied thinking
strategies that range from
lower-order to higher-
order thinking skills
(inferential, critical,
integrative and creative
thinking)
 INQUIRY
2. INQUIRY – a problem-
solving technique acting like a
scientist by imagining,
speculating, interpreting,
criticizing and creating
something of what you
discovered.
 Inquiry -Based learning gets its
support from these three educational
theories serving as its foundation the
first one is ...
FOUNDATIONS OF
INQUIRY
1. John Dewey’s theory of
connected experiences for
exploratory and reflective
thinking.

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FOUNDATIONS OF
INQUIRY
2. Lev Vygotsky’s Zones of
Proximal Development (ZPD)
that stresses the essence of
provocation and scaffolding
in learning.

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FOUNDATIONS OF
INQUIRY
3. Jerome Bruner’s theory on
learners’ varied world
perceptions for their own
interpretative thinking of
people and things around
them.
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 Back up by all these theories, inquiry as
a way of learning, concerns itself with
these elements
ELEMENTS OF INQUIRY
1. Changing knowledge
2. Creativity
3. Subjectivity
4. Socio-cultural factors
5. Sensory experiences
6. Higher- order thinking
strategies
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 All of these are achievable through th
einquiry methods of fieldwork, case
studies, investigations indivudual group
project and research work!.
BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
1. Elevates interpretative
thinking through graphic
skills
2. Improves student learning
abilities

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BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
3. Widens learner’s
vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-solving
acts
5. Increases social awareness
and cultural knowledge
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BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
6. Encourages cooperative
learning
7. Provides mastery of
procedural knowledge
8. Encourages higher-order
thinking skills
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BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
9. Hasten conceptual
understanding

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Educators, businessmen,ang other prefessionals

consider all these benefits of inquiry base learning
in various fields of knowldge to be crucial to the
success of anyone in the 21st century.
Always remenber that the main goal of research is
to improve life.
Thats all for today. and Keep safe everyone.
God bless!.