CALDWELL ADVENTIST ACADEMY

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“The School for Future Leaders”

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Name: Date:
Year & Section: Module No. 1
Topic: INQUIRY VS. RESEARCH: A REVIEW Lesson No.1

Reference:
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:

1.1 Explain the meaning of research in relation to inquiry;
1.2 Point out the similarities and differences of research and inquiry
1.3 Distinguish lower-level questions from top-level questions to give stress to investigate
kind of thinking
1.4 Appraise the value of concepts learned about inquiry and research

INSPECT INVESTIGAT MIXED PONDER

STUDY
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REFLECT UNPLANNED CONTEMPLA

RANDOM ILLOGIC
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Directions: Select 2-3 words and on the lines provided, construct sentences using the newly
learned words.
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LINKING
STATEMENT
Are you familiar with these words? These words are mostly used or heard in research. In this
lesson, we will learn more about how research works and how to be an effective researcher.

CONCEPT
NOTES
 INQUIRY
A term that is synonymous with the word ‘investigation,’ is the answer to this question. When you inquire or
investigate, you tend to ask questions to probe or examine something. You do this kind of examination through your
HOTS or higher-order thinking strategies of inferential, analytical, critical, creative, and appreciative thinking to
discover more understandable or meaningful things beyond such object of your inquiry.
RESEARCH
is the acquisition of new knowledge through a purposive, organized and designed program of activities. It seeks
to find the answers to the problems and designed new information for a better understanding of the concepts under
study.

IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH:

1. Knowledge is established
2. Perceptions are corrected
3. Phenomena are validated
4. Present solutions are tested effectivity
5. Problems are solved

GOALS OF RESEARCH:
1. DESCRIPTION- refers to the way in which the phenomena being studied is defined, classified and categorized.
The goal of describing is to provide essential information.

2. PREDICTION- It entails stating the possible consequences of present events based on existing knowledge of
something else. The purpose of prediction is to control ons’s action and behavior through careful planning derived from
a given set of information.

3. UNDERSTANDING / EXPLANATION- this is the process of analyzing information to find out the causes
behind phenomena. To understand and explain data, a relationship between events must already be established; one
should case the effect to the other; and other explanations of causlity between them must be ruled out.

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

The process of conducting research involves systematic collection and investigation of data through the
scientific method. It provides a set of clear and settled guidelines for collecting, assessing and detailing data in context
of research study. Knowledge that came from research that employs scientific method is characterized by the following
elements:

1. EMPERICAL APPROACH – knowledge is gained through direct observation and experimentation. Only those data
derived from scientific procedures are considered factual. Thereby, you ignore your preconceived notion about the construct
understudy. You also disregard your feelings and opinions about it

2. OBSERVATION- Your awareness of your environment constitutes your ideas. But if you rely on your awareness
alone, it results in information bias, decreasing the validity of your findings. To increase the veracity of the information
you gained from observation, you have to measure it carefully using an appropriate instrument.

3. QUESTION- knowledge comes from inquiries that are answerable. Questions must be answered through scientific
investigation and must generate tangible proof. A question is unanswerable when it is deemed impossible for realistic
exploration, no matter how intriguing it may be.

4. HYPOTHESES – An educated guess, or hypothesis, is an attempt to explain a phenomena. Once formulated, it

should help you formulate a prediction. Therefore, it must be teatable for analysis and interpretation.

5. EXPERIMENTS – The given hypothesis should assure testability in a crafte condition for the accuracy and
reliability of results. The process of experimentation itself is a proof of scientific procedures. And so, the findings are
considered truthful.

6. .ANALYSES- For findings to be reliable, the data gathered are subjected for analysis through statistical methods.
The statistical treatement to be employed depends on the design of the study, type of data, and given questions. You
have to use statistics becuase it presents numerical evidence of the degree in which the results are considered valid and
reliable. Also, it mininmizes the chance of having a faulty conclusion about the object of investigation.

7. CONCLUSION – The process of making inferences involves concrete data to rule out opinions. Usually, a
conclusion must be objective and supported by meticulous analysis of data. You should avoid adding more to what is
literally available.
 8. . Replication- this means doing the same study once again to a different set of participants to test of soundness of the
obtained result. The importance and prevalence of replication research varies greatly on the discipline and research area.
Conducting the study for the several times will pave the way for additional and essential purposes:

A. Establishment of reliability of findings. The previous data that were proven will have a stronger belief factor
B. Discovery of new knowledge. Most often, replication generates additional information or brand new data that will
improve your knowledge acquisition and enlighten for confusion, if any.
C. Ascerntainment of the generalizability of results. This means that the results of the study can be applied to other
groups of participants and, therefore, do not only limit to the original samples.

GUIDE
QUESTION:
1. Compare and Contrast Inquiry and Research?
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2. How can a researcher be a scientist?

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COLLABORATIVE
ACTIVITY
DIRECTION: Form a group compose of 3 members. Find at least 2 articles/ stories/ news each, any topic that is
educational and write a reflection or summary on the topic that you have selected.

PROCESS QUESTIONS
1. How did you come up with your research?
2. Did you find any difficulty while doing the activity?
3. How did you overcome with the difficulty you’ve encountered

INDIVIDUAL TASK

INSTRUCTIONS: To better understand and appreciate the process of research more, visit the following
links to watch videos regarding the research process. On a separate sheet. write an essay telling what
you’ve learned about the research process. Choose only 1 from the links provided.

1. “Six Reasons Why Research is Cool : Quique Bassat at TED x Barcelona Change”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b3iteSyg1I)

2. “Research is Like Cooking” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1azGsT2wLD0 )