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The document discusses the differences between inquiry and research, emphasizing that inquiry is a quest for knowledge through questioning, while research is a systematic process of collecting and analyzing information to understand phenomena. It outlines the characteristics and importance of research, including its role in adding to existing knowledge, improving practices, informing policies, and solving problems. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of acknowledging sources in research to ensure validity and reliability.

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The document discusses the differences between inquiry and research, emphasizing that inquiry is a quest for knowledge through questioning, while research is a systematic process of collecting and analyzing information to understand phenomena. It outlines the characteristics and importance of research, including its role in adding to existing knowledge, improving practices, informing policies, and solving problems. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of acknowledging sources in research to ensure validity and reliability.

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PRACTICAL RESEARCH REVIEWER #1

UNIT 1:
The Nature of Inquiry and Research Methods of RESEARCH
- To be a researcher is to be a scientist, who must
Topic I:
INQUIRY VS. RESEARCH think logically or systematically; that is, your
 INQUIRY = INVESTIGATION research activities must follow a certain order, like
- Quest for truth, information, or knowledge doing inductive thinking that makes you ponder on
through questioning specific ideas first, then move to more complex
- “What do I need to know, do, learn, concepts like conclusions or generalizations. Or, do
practice, develop, create, connect or test to the opposite of inductive thinking which is
be able to achieve the mission?” deductive thinking that lets you start from forming
- Need or want to know generalizations to examining details about the
- Construction of new knowledge subject matter.
- Resolving the problems and issues
- Develop HOTS and critical thinking skills Inquiry vis-à-vis Research

- When you inquire or investigate, you tend to ask One scholarly activity that greatly involves inquiry is
questions to probe or examine something. You do research. Like inquiry that starts from what you are
this kind of examination through your HOTS or ignorant about, research makes you learn something by
higher-order thinking strategies of inferential, means of a problem-solving technique. Both inquiry and
analytical, critical, creative, and appreciative research encourage you to formulate questions to direct
thinking to discover more understandable or you to the exact information you want to discover about
meaningful things beyond such object of your the object of your curiosity.
inquiry.
Your questions operate like a scrutiny of a person’s attire
 Research - a systematic process of collecting, to find out what are hidden between or among the
analyzing, and interpreting information in order to compartments or folded parts of his/her clothes.
increase our understanding of a phenomenon Although the core word for both inquiry and research is
about which we are interested or concerned investigation or questioning, they are not exactly the
- unbiased; all angles presented same in all aspects. Research includes more complex
- works with a system or method acts of investigation than inquiry because the former
- a creative process follows a scientific procedure of discovering truths or
meanings about things in this world. -
!! Why DO Research?!!
I. Add to existing knowledge.
II. Improve practice.
III. Inform policies
IV. Solve problems, not emergencies.

Characteristics of RESEARCH
- Research is a scientific, experimental, or inductive
manner of thinking. Starting 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:
identifying the topic or problem, gathering data, making
theories, formulating hypotheses, analyzing data, and
drawing conclusions.
- The data you work on in research do not come mainly
from yourself but also from other sources of knowledge
like people, books, and artworks, among others. Hence,
one cardinal principle in research is to give
acknowledgment to owners of all sources of knowledge
involved in your research work. Giving credit to people
from whom you derived your data is your way of not
only thanking the authors of their contribution to the
field, but also establishing the validity and reliability of
the findings of your research that ought to serve as
instrument for world progress.

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