NATURE OF

INQUIRY AND
RESEARCH
Presented by:

MR. NOLI R. TAMBAOAN, CHRA

AGENDA

 Nature of Inquiry
Meaning of Inquiry
Governing Principles or Foundation of Inquiry
Benefits of Inquiry-based Research
 Nature of Research
Meaning of Research
Characteristics of Research
Purposes of Research
Types of Research
Approaches to Research
OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

 Explain their understanding of the term inquiry;
 Enumerate the benefits of an inquiry-based learning;
 Compose an essay to prove the extent of their
understanding of inquiry;
 Discuss the characteristics of research;
 Differentiate the various types of research;
 Describe completed or published research studies based
on the concepts learned about research.
NATURE OF INQUIRY
INQUIRY – BASED LEARNING
MEANING OF INQUIRY

 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.
GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OR
FOUNDATION OF INQUIRY

LEV VYGOTSKY JEROME BRUNER

JOHN DEWEY Theory on learners’ varied
Zone of Proximal Development
Theory of connected world perceptions for their own
experiences for exploratory (ZPD) that stresses the interpretative thinking of
and reflective thinking essence of provocation and people and things around
scaffolding in learning them
GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OR FOUNDATION
OF INQUIRY

 Inquiry, as a way of learning, concerns

itself with these elements: changing
knowledge, creativity, subjectivity, socio-
cultural factors, sensory experience, and
higher-order thinking strategies.
 All of these are achievable through the
inquiry methods of fieldwork, case
 studies, investigations, individual group
project, and research work. (Small, 2012)
BENEFITS OF AN INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING

 Elevates interpretative thinking

through graphic skills.
 Improves student learning
abilities.
 Widens learners’ vocabulary.
 Facilitates problem-solving acts.
 Increases social awareness and
cultural knowledge.
BENEFITS OF AN INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING

 Encourages cooperative
learning.
 Provides mastery of
procedural knowledge.
 Encourages higher-order
thinking strategies.
 Hastens conceptual
understanding.
NATURE OF RESEARCH
MEANING OF 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).
CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH

 Accuracy. It must give correct or accurate data, which

the footnotes, notes, and bibliographical entries should
honestly and appropriately documented or
acknowledged.
 Objectiveness. It must deal with facts, not with mere
opinions arising from assumptions, generalizations,
predictions, or conclusions.
 Timeliness. It must work on a topic that is fresh, new,
and interesting to the present society.
CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH

 Relevance. Its topic must be instrumental in

improving society or in solving problems affecting
the lives of people in a community.
 Clarity. It must succeed in expressing its central
point or discoveries by using simple, direct,
concise, and correct language.
 Systematic. It must take place in an organized or
orderly manner.
PURPOSES OF RESEARCH

 To learn how to work independently.

 To learn how to work scientifically or
systematically.
 To have an in-depth knowledge of something.
 To elevate your mental abilities by letting you
think in higher-order thinking strategies (HOTS)
of inferring, evaluating, synthesizing, appreciating,
applying, and creating.
PURPOSES OF RESEARCH

 To improve your reading and writing skills.

 To be familiar with the basic tools of research and
the various techniques of gathering data and of
presenting research findings.
 To free yourself, to a certain extent, from the
domination or strong influence of a single
textbook or of the professor’s lone viewpoint or
spoon feeding.
TYPES OF RESEARCH
Based on Application of Research Method

 Is the research applied to theoretical or practical

issues? If it deals with concepts, principles, or
abstract things, it is a pure research. This type of
research aims to increase your knowledge about
something. However, if your intention is to apply
your chosen research to societal problems or
issues, finding ways to make positive changes in
society, you call your research, applied research.
Based on Purpose of the Research

 Depending on your objective or goal in

conducting research, you do any of these
types of research: descriptive,
correlational, explanatory, exploratory, or
action.
Based on Purpose of the Research

 Descriptive. This type of research aims at defining or giving a verbal

portrayal or picture of a person, thing, event, group, situation, etc. This is
liable to repeated research because its topic relates itself only to a certain
period or a limited number of years. Based on the results of your descriptive
studies about a subject, you develop the inclination of conducting further
studies on such topic.
 Correlational. A correlational research shows relationships or connectedness
of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables that affect the
research.
 Explanatory. This type of research elaborates or explains not just the reasons
behind the relationship of two factors, but also the ways by which such
relationship exists.
Based on Purpose of the Research

 Exploratory. An exploratory research’s purpose

is to find out how reasonable or possible it is to
conduct a research study on a certain topic.
 Action. This type of research studies an ongoing
practice of a school, organization, community,
or institution for the purpose of obtaining results
that will bring improvements in the system.
APPROACHES TO RESEARCH

 Scientific. It is where you discover and measure information as

well as observe and control variables in an impersonal manner.
 Naturalistic. This research approach directs you to deal with
qualitative data that speak of how people behave toward their
surroundings.
 Triangulation. It allows for the combination of the two
approaches in designing your research and gives you the
opportunity to view every angle of the research from different
perspectives (Badke 2012; Silverman 2013).