Practical Research 1: Quarter 1 - Module 1
Practical Research 1: Quarter 1 - Module 1
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Importance of Research in Daily
Lives
Practical Research 1 – Grade 11
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Quarter 1 – Module 1: Importance of Research in Daily Lives
First Edition, 2020
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Practical Research 1
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Importance of Research in Daily
Lives
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:
As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and
assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
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For the learner:
The hand is one of the most symbolized part of the human body. It is often
used to depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create
and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an
active learner.
What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.
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skill into real life situations or concerns.
1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.
We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do
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What I Need to Know
At the end of the module, it is expected that students will imbibe the
following competencies:
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What I Know
Lesson
Research Experiences and
1 Knowledge
You have heard probably the term “research” during your junior high
school or from some who have taken the subject in Senior High School. I am
pretty sure that this term has petrified you, chilled you out, and made you
anxious. Some of them shared their unforgettable experiences on this
subject. Nonetheless, you cannot deny that somehow you are afraid to take
this chance. However, those are just misconceptions about research (Kaur
2014). Research is not what you think of.
We can say that part of their stories are true and part of those are
exaggerations. Nevertheless, if you would just realize how exiting and
engaging the process of research is, you would definitely be interested to do
it. Research is fun. Here you are going to explore and to investigate to
understand the phenomenon, and to establish new knowledge that is
worthwhile to discover and to share. Research is easy. It is just requiring to
commit yourself and to exert extra effort in understanding the rudiments on
how to write it done and to enhance the skills that you needed. If you
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worrying for you’re just a senior high school student, an amateur, and
novice who lacks skills and determination. You have the skills and the
process itself is not new to you. You have been researching for a long time.
Remember how many times you search for solutions to your problem or
investigate to know the answers to your questions. Can we consider them as
a form of informal research? Yes, they are!
What’s In
Imagine that you are a police inspector assigned to solve a crime. There are
four (4) clues in the crime scene. It is your job to decode the clues using the
alphabet, musical notes, and symbols in order to identify who is the culprit.
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What’s New
Do you have a similar problem searching about things you don’t know? I
know during that time you were very eager to satisfy your curiosity. How did you
come up with the answer? Have you consulted anybody? Or you switched on your
smartphone or computer and search on the internet? Isn’t fun to know the answers
to your questions? By doing that, you are actually doing research. You are now
conducting research! Continue reading this module to remember how a student
like you do research. Moreover, you will understand how this subject differs from
other subjects that you have gone through.
What is It
If you think research is not for you, let me give you some instances that you
might have applied “researching”. Can you still recall when your Math teacher-
asked you to solve a mathematical problem that you cannot understand? Thus, no
matter how you try you cannot find the right answer or concepts behind it Most
probably, you ask somebody to help you out or you open your cellphone and search
for a video tutorial. Can you still recall when you first played your favorite online
game, and no matter how much you try, you still cannot defeat your opponent’s
hero? I think what you did was to ask your friend or an expert to help you out or
you searched on the internet for answers. The process that you have done is
research. You had a problem, you established your methods on how to solve your
problem, you conducted a literature review or an actual interview and survey, then
you came up with solutions. These requires you to search and to overcome your
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problems. Research flows in the same manner. Doing research does not necessarily
mean creating extraordinary things like Mark Zuckerberg who developed Facebook
or even Zhang Yiming who created TikTok.
Etymologically, research came from “re” and “search”. "Re" is a prefix that
means again and search is a word which means to look for. Therefore, research is
to look for something (Chapman 1979). There are two (2) things that we need to
take note of in this definition. First, research is not only about the discovery of
something unknown, it is coming up with a new explanation of something that is
known. Second, research is a process. It is a process of searching for something to
solve an existing problem or difficulty to solve.
On the other hand, research can be also viewed as the formation of new
knowledge and the employment of previous or existing knowledge into a new and
creative way (O’Donnell 2012). Imagine these two (2) scenarios: mother giving birth
to a baby and a potter molding a pot. The creation of new knowledge can be
compared to a mother giving birth. The mother stands for the research itself and
the baby is new knowledge. Thus, through research, new knowledge is born. On
the other hand, a potter molding a pot can be paralleled to the use of existing
knowledge in a new creative way. Here, the potter stands for the researcher, the
clay as the existing knowledge, and the pot itself is a new knowledge made
creatively.
Now, do not be afraid to carry out research. It is because you can make a
research. Why? First, it is not new to you. You are not just fully aware that what
you were doing is research and you have been doing many times. Second, research
is not a demanding activity that would exhaust your strength. However, some
particular techniques and processes are involved and needed to be carried out in
conducting this activity. What you have heard from others is a piece of hoax and
challenges. It is a hoax for research is not after all difficult. It is a challenge for you
that needs dedication and commitment to successfully do this exciting activity.
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What’s More
This word starts with the letter “I” and ends with the letter “n”.
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knowledge or based from existing knowledge in a new and creative way. It starts
with the letter “r”.
In this lesson, you have learned that research is not new to you. Your petty
experiences on how you solve simple problems and difficulties are expressions of
research. Therefore, there is no point in becoming afraid, chilled out, or even
anxious about conducting a study. Furthermore, you have learned here that
research can be viewed in various ways. First, it is the process of searching or
looking for something. Second, it follows a system or structure in gathering
information. Lastly, it is the creation of new knowledge based on previous
knowledge in a new and creative way.
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b. No! It is because answering problem through investigation its main
purpose.
c. Yes! It is because research is a rigid discipline that all students ought
to take in the senior high school.
5. In research, what do we search?
a. We search for new knowledge, explanations and understanding.
b. We search on what is not existing in this world.
c. We search on things that can give us satisfaction to our lives.
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a. It is because it follows order of having problem, asking through inquiries,
investigation, and drawing up conclusion.
b. It is because it follows our innate intuition in solving problem.
c. It is because it follows a serious and complicated process.
7. How existing knowledge becomes basis for new knowledge?
a. Existing knowledge becomes basis for new knowledge for it serves as
ground or support to the new knowledge.
b. Existing knowledge actually don’t have any connection to the new
knowledge.
c. Existing knowledge becomes the only source of explanation.
8. How simple internet searching or observation became research?
a. This process can be considered as literature review or reference.
b. This process can be considered as non-essential review.
c. This process can be considered as obsolete reference.
9. What makes informal research differs from the formal way of researching?
a. Informal research follows the principle of research processes but in a
relative or personal way.
b. Informal research doesn’t follow the principle of research process
considering only the relative or personal way.
c. Informal research doesn’t have a process.
10. What is the purpose of collecting data in research?
a. To gather information necessary for the problem
b. To gather information that is non-related to the issue
c. To gather information that is obsolete and outdated.
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Additional Activities
List ten (10) words either horizontally or vertically that are related to research.
1. ______________________________ 6. _________________________________
2. ______________________________ 7. _________________________________
3. ______________________________ 8. _________________________________
4. ______________________________ 9. _________________________________
5. ______________________________ 10. _________________________________
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Lesson
2 Importance of Research
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What’s In
Welcome to picture puzzle! Identify the words that the pictures are showing.
Use the icons and jumbled words to answer the puzzle.
What’s New
Think of what you consider most valuable on the things that you have now?
Can you cite five of them? It can be your cellphone, your shirt, your pants, your
computer, your pencil, or your ballpen. I know you are aware that those are
products of research. These are made out of a long and tedious study of different
groups or individuals like what you are doing when you seek for answer. If things
that you have are important and these are the product of research, can we say that
research is important to us? ABSOLUTELY YES! RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT!
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What is It
Research aims for truth. We crave truth for no one has the desire to live in
lies (Rasmussen 2013). Research is about establishing truth based on evidence or
data. We conduct a study to seek for truth. Just imagine, for many centuries
people believe that the world is flat and it is over the giant turtle. Beyond the
horizon of the sea is an abyss. But there came Ferdinand Magellan who proved this
otherwise. His courage and research have made us live with the fact that the world
is round.
Have you ever heard about the belief that earth is the center of the
universe? Actually, for many years men believed that everything revolved around
us. But thanks to Copernicus, because of his tedious research, now we know that
it is not Earth as the center of the universe but the sun. I beat you can cite more
examples related to this concern. Nonetheless, the main idea here is that research
provides us an explanation or solution to particular problem based on truth (Kasi
2009).
Research improves the quality of human life. I believe that you often
hear from your parents about their experiences when they were young. Though it
sounds so boring, they live without television, without the internet, without a
cellphone, without an air condition, without an electric fan, without computer, or
online games. Can you imagine that kind of life? But look at our situation now.
Everything that they don’t have before, we have it now. You can cook now without a
fire stove. Now, it is a matter of pushing a button with the use of a rice cooker or
electric stove. You can call and see your friends abroad without hustles through
the use of social media platforms. You can travel anywhere by just a matter of
hours or a few days using your motorcycles and bikes. You can enjoy staying at
home not going outside with the use of your smartphones. This is the life we have
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now. Do you think it just went down from heaven like rain during the rainy
season? All of the technological advancements are brought by different researches
(Gupta 2018). Without the people who dedicated their lives for the sake of
humanity, we will not have this kind of life. Through research, it improves our
standard of living.
Research saves a life. Through the course of human history, research has
proven its worth and roles in our lives. In the past, when penicillin was not yet
discovered, people just die without proper medication. It was by the research of
Fleming that the first generation of antibiotics were discovered (Pandey et al. 2014).
In the same manner, how can we forget the research of Dr. Abelardo Aguilar, a
Filipino doctor, one of the contributors to the discovery of Erythromycin during the
late 1940s? Now, we have effective medicine in bacteria that causes infections in
the respiratory tract (Peretti et al. 2011).
Moreover, Dr. Fe Del Mundo improved the incubator and jaundice relieving
device. Now pre-matured babies and those suffering from jaundice can survive and
enjoy life in the future. With our situation now with the threat of COVID 19, the
only hope is research. Research on understanding the disease, development of
vaccines, and medication will save us. Nonetheless, researchers are doing their best
working day and night to have a medical remedy for this pandemic. Later, research
will succeed and will continue to provide us a safer life.
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their tradition and faith passed through generations? Do you know that the
Dumagat of Aurora considered prayers as part of their economic life? Do you know
that the province of Tarlac came from the "Malatarlak"? I am quite sure that you
are familiar with some of these questions. These are just examples of how research
explores the culture of people. Research likewise deals with the investigation of
culture to understand and to appreciate others' practices, and beliefs (Zion and
Kozleski 2005). The way we understand others is the result of a long study of
different individuals to provide us explanations about group or individual culture.
Because of this, we can now related, understand, and respect others.
Probably you have your own, experience aware with your own experience
how research works, you can still cite importance of research. These five (5)
importance are just the representation of many benefits we can get out of research.
Research is important because it aims for truth, improves quality of human life,
saves life, gathers necessary information, and explores humanity. Who knows in
the future, you’re research might be beneficial to humanity. Hand on your pencil!
Let us start researching!
What’s More
Using the illustration below, write “A” if the symbol shows importance of
research related to exposing the truth, “B” if it is improves quality of human life,
“C” if it saves life, “D” if it is gathers necessary information, and “E” if it is
humanity.
5. _______ Using the internet and other social media platform to get
information.
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What I Have Learned
In this lesson, you have learned the five (5) importance of research. These
are aims for truth, improves quality of human life, saves life, gathers necessary
information, and explores humanity. Thus, you can agree that research is helpful
to mankind.
What I Can Do
Spot the me! Look at the doodle carefully and identify five (5) outputs of
research. Name explain how they become important to us.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________________________________________
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Assessment
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c. To know one’s purpose
10. What is the best explanation why we are conducting research?
a. We conduct research because we want to improve our lives.
b. We conduct research because we make money out of it.
c. We conduct research because we don’t have anything to do.
Additional Activities
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Answer Key
Lesson 1
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Answer Key
Lesson 2
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