PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2

NATURE OF INQUIRY AND

RESEARCH

Prepared by:
Ms. Jonabel B. Alinsoot
Intended Learning Outcomes

After this lesson, you should be able to:

 relate unfamiliar term wit other terms to discover the meaning of such
difficult term;
 explain the meaning of research in relation to inquiry
 point out the similarities and differences of research and inquiry
 distinguish lower-level questions from top-level questions to give
stress to investigative thinking;
 judge the applicability of inquiry or research to a given situation; and
 Appraise the value of concepts learned about inquiry and research.
 INQUIRY vs. RESEARCH : A REVIEW

 One goal of education is knowledge acquisition. However, education is not just

stocking your brain with knowledge; it also encourages you to us e acquired
knowledge for a deeper understanding of the world--- an understanding that
inspires you to create, construct, or produce things for the betterment of your life
and the rest of the world.

 INQUIRY- is a term that is synonymous with word “investigation”

 When you inquire or investigate, you tend to ask question to probe or examine
something.
 Through your HOTS or higher-order thinking strategies
-inferential, analytical, creative and appreciative thinking
 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH

Research is a scientific, experimental, or inductive

manner of thinking.
From particular to more complex ideas , you execute
varied thinking acts that range from lower-order to
higher-order thinking strategies reflected by these
research activities.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH

Identifying the topic or problem

Gathering data
Making theories
Formulating hypotheses
Analyzing analytical
Methodical and replicable
 METHODS OF RESEARCH

Must follow a certain order, like doing inductive thinking that

makes you ponder on specific ideas first,
Move to more complex concepts like conclusions or
generalizations
Do opposite of inductive thinking, which is deductive thinking
Forming generalizations to examining details about the
subject matter.
 METHODS OF RESEARCH

Free to chose from several approaches,

methods, and types of research you learned in
your previous subject, Practical Research 1
( Gray, 2011; Sharp, 2012)
 INQUIRY vis-à-vis RESEARCH

Research make you learn something by means of problem-

solving technique.
Both inquiry and research encourage you to formulate
questions to direct you to the exact information you want to
discover about the object of curiosity.
Research includes more complex acts of investigation than
inquiry because the former follows a scientific procedure of
discovering truths or meanings about things in this world.
 QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH

Prepared by:
Ms. Jonabel B. Alinsoot
 INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

 familiarize yourself with vocabulary terms to clarify

things about quantitative research;
 communicate with others using the newly learned
vocabulary terms;
 speculate about quantitative research;
Define quantitative research accurately
 INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

 compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative research

based on some criteria or standards;
 draw distinctions between a qualitative question from a
quantitative question
 ask questions any quantitative research seeks to answer;
and
 analyze the power of print media or electronic devices to
trigger off student`s quantitative questioning.
 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

 Expressions like numerical forms, objective thinking,

statistical methods and measurement signal existence of
Quantitative Research.
 Makes you focus your mind on specific things by means of
statistics that involve collection and study of numerical data.
 A way of making any phenomenon or any sensory experience
clearer or more meaningful by gathering and examining facts
and information.
 CHARACTERISTICS

 uses numbers and figures to denote a particular thing

 requires you to focus full attention on the object of your study.
 described as objective research in contrast to qualitative
research that is subjective.
 CHARACTERISTICS

 Objectiveness
 Analogous
 Theorize
 Hypothesize
 Analyze
 Infer
 Create
 CLASSIFICATION

 Experimental and non-experimental.

 Has sub-types
 Experimental are specific types:
 True-experimental, quasi-experimental, single subject, and
pre-experimental.
 CLASSIFICATION

 Quasi- experimental ( matched comparative group, time

series, and counter balanced quasi- experimental.

 Non- experimental research

 Survey, historical, observational, correlational, descriptive
and comparative research.
 IMPORTANCE

 lies greatly in the production of results that should reflect

precise measurement and an in-depth analysis of data.
 useful in obtaining an objective understanding of people,
things, places, and event in this world.
 Requiring the use of reliable measurement instruments or
statistical methods
 enables people to study their surroundings as objectively as
they can.
 QUANTITATIVE vs. QUALITATIVE
STANDARDS QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE

Researcher`s involvement with the Subjective; sometimes personally Objective; least involvement by the
Object or subject of the study engaged researcher

Expressions of data, data, analysis Verbal language (words, visuals, Numerals, statistics
and findings objects)
Research plan Takes place as the research proceeds Plans all research aspects before
gradually collecting data
Behavior toward research aspects/ Desires to preserve the natural setting Control or manipulation of research
conditions of research features conditions by the researcher
Obtaining knowledge Multiple methods Scientific method

Purpose Makes social intention Evaluates objectives and examines

understandable cause-effect relationships
 QUANTITATIVE vs. QUALITATIVE
STANDARDS QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE

Data analysis technique Thematic codal ways, competence- Mathematically based methods
based

Style of expression Personal, lacks formality Impersonal , scientific, or systematic

Sampling technique More inclined to purposive sampling Random sampling as the most
or use of chosen samples based on preferred
some criteria
Mental survey of reality Results from social interactions Exists in the physical world

Cause-effect relationships Explained by people`s objective desires Revealed by automatic descriptions of

circumstances or conditions