NATURE AND

INQUIRY OF
RESEARCH
• is any process that has the aim of expanding knowledge,
resolving doubt, or solving a problem.
• Experts see inquiry as a process that focuses on problems or
questions in discipline or between disciplines that are open or
unresolved.
• learning process that motivated you to obtain knowledge or
information about people, things, places, or events.
• requires to collect data, meaning, facts, and information about
the object of your inquiry, and examine such data carefully.

INQUIRY
1. Elevates interpretative thinking skills through graphic skills.
2. Improves student learning abilities.
3. Widens learner vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-solving acts.
5. Increase social awareness and cultural knowledge.
6. Encourages cooperative learning.
7. Provide mastery of procedural knowledge.
8. Encourage higher-order thinking strategies.
9. Hastens conceptual understanding
BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING
-process of executing various mental acts for discovering and
examining facts and information to prove the accuracy or
truthfulness of your claims and conclusions about the topic of
your research.
-requires you to 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 many things you tend to wonder.

RESEARCH
• an act of studying a particular subject done carefully and
extensively.
• the intention of research is to attain profound understanding in
a particular subject.
• it is very vital to everyday decision making.
• it arms people from wrong information and save time and
money.

RESEARCH
• is defined as the scientific investigation of phenomena
which includes collection, presentation, analysis and
interpretation of facts that lines an individual's
speculation with reality.
• it must be systematic, arranged, summarized and
recorded properly.

RESEARCH
IMPORTANCE OF
RESEARCH
1. COLLECT ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
research provides the researcher with all crucial
information in field of his work, study or operation before he
starts working on it. Before beginning a project, most of the
companies do research to acquire fundamental idea about
the things they must do for the project. Research also
helps them get familiar with the processes and resources
concerned and reception from the market. This information
facilitates in the successful result of the project.
2. CREATE CHANGES
at times, there are inherent problems in a process or a
project that is difficult to find out, Research helps people in
earth the root cause and related components of a process.
The concluding outcome of such a research raises a claim
for change and at times is victorious in producing changes
also. For instance, there are many researches that have
smoothed the road changes in environmental policies.
3. IMPROVING STANDARD OF LIVING
only through research can new inventions and
discoveries come into life. it was C.V. Raman's research
that prompted invention of radio communication. The first
ever practical telephone of Graham Bell for
communication had not come out without research. It
was Martin Cooper who made the research and he
presented the world the concept of mobile phones.
4. FOR A SAFER LIFE
Research has made groundbreaking discoveries and
development in the field of health, nutrition, food
technology, medicine and so on. These things have
improved the life expectancy and the health conditions of
human race in all parts of the world and helped eradicate
diseases like polio and smallpox completely.
5. TO KNOW THE TRUTH
it has been proven time and again that many of
established facts and known truths are just cover ups or
blatant lies or rumors. Research is needed to investigate
and expose these and bring out the truth.
6. EXPLORE HISTORY
Research about planet's history, and human history has
enabled people to learn and understand more about their
forefathers and helped learn from their mistakes and
absorb good things from their life. Research about the
planet's history and existence has told everyone a lot
about how things will shape up in years to come and how
they need to respect the planet and work closely together
to stop global warming and other scenarios of
destruction.
7. UNDERSTANDING ARTS
this helps people in understanding the work of artists in
literature, paintings, sculptures and everything that can
be attributed with artistic touch. If no research is
conducted into any of these, people will never be able to
understand any of these as per the artist's imagination.
Also, a lot of great artistic work is hidden in the shadows
of history, which needs to be drawn out.
THE CHARACTERISTICS,
PURPOSES, TYPES, AND
APPROACHES OF
RESEARCH
CHARACTERISTICS OF
RESEARCH
1. ACCURACY
it must give correct or accurate data, which the footnotes, notes, and
bibliographical entries should honestly and appropriately documented or
acknowledged.
2. OBJECTIVENESS
it must deal with facts, not with mere opinions arising from assumptions,
generalizations, predictions, or conclusions.
3. TIMELINESS
it must work on a topic that is fresh, new, and interesting to the present
society.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
RESEARCH
4. RELEVANCE
- its topic must be instrumental in improving society or in
solving problems affecting the lives of people in a community.
5. CLARITY
- it must succeed in expressing its central point or discoveries
by using simple, direct, concise, and correct language.
6. SYSTEMATIC
- it must take place in an organized or orderly manner.
 PURPOSES OF RESEARCH
1. To learn how to work independently.
2. To learn how to work scientifically or systematically.
3. To have an in-depth knowledge of something.
4. 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
5. To improve your reading and writing skills.
6. To be familiar with the basic tools of research and the various
techniques of gathering data and of presenting research findings.
7. To free yourself, to a certain extent, from domination or strong
influence of a single textbook or of the professor's lone viewpoint of
spoon feeding.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
1. BASED ON APPLICATION OF RESEARCH METHOD
Pure Research - it deals with concepts, principles, or
abstract things. This type of research aims to increase your
knowledge about something.
Applied Research - if the intention is to apply your
chosen research to societal problems or issues, finding
ways to make positive changes in society.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
2. BASED ON PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
Descriptive Research - 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 limited number of years. Based on the result of
your descriptive studies about a subject, you develop the
inclination of conducting further studies on such topic.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
2. BASED ON PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
Correlational Research - shows relationships or
connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents
called variables that affect the research. It is only concerned
in indicating the existence of a relationship, not the causes
and ways of development of such relationship.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
2. BASED ON PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
Explanatory Research - 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.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
2. BASED ON PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
Exploratory Research - its purpose is to find out
how reasonable or possible it is to conduct a
research study on a certain topic. Here, you will
discover ideas on topics that could trigger your
interest in conducting research studies.
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2. BASED ON PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
Action Research - 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.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
3. BASED ON TYPES OF DATA NEEDED
Qualitative Research - requires non-numerical data,
which means that the research uses words rather than
numbers to express the results, the inquiry, or investigation
about the people's thoughts. beliefs, feelings, views, and
lifestyle regarding the object of the study. These
opinionated answers from the people are not measurable;
so, verbal language is the right way to express your findings
in a qualitative research.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
3. BASED ON TYPES OF DATA NEEDED
Quantitative Research - involves measurement
of data. Thus, it presents research findings referring
to the number or frequency of something in
numerical form. (i.e., using percentages, fractions,
numbers).
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
3. BASED ON TYPES OF DATA NEEDED
The data you deal with in research are either primary
or secondary data. Primary data are obtained through direct
observation or contact with people, objects, artifacts,
paintings, etc. Primary data are new and original
information resulting from our sensory experience.
However, if such data have already been written about or
reported on and are available for reading purposes, the
exist as secondary data.
 APPROACHES OF RESEARCH
SCIENTIFIC OR POSITIVE APPROACH - you discover
and measure information as well as observe and control
variables in an impersonal manner. It allows control of
variables. Therefore, data gathering techniques appropriate
for this approach are structured interviews, questionnaires,
and observational checklists. Data given by these
techniques are expressed through numbers, which means
that this method is suitable for quantitative research.
 APPROACHES OF RESEARCH
NATURALISTIC APPROACH - it uses words. This
approach directs you to deal with qualitative data that speak
of how people behave toward their surroundings. These are
non-numerical data that express truths about the way
people perceive or understand the world. Since people look
at their world in subjective or personal basis in an
uncontrolled or unstructured manner, a naturalistic
approach happens in a natural setting.
 APPROACHES OF RESEARCH
TRIANGULATION APPROACH - this approach, you
are free to gather and analyze data using multiple
method, allowing you to combine or mix up research
approaches, research types, data gathering, and
data analysis techniques. Triangulation approach
gives you the opportunity to view every angle of the
research from different perspectives.
 STRENGTHS
1. Provides estimates of populations at large.
2. Indicates the extensiveness of attitudes held by people.
3. Provides results which can be condensed to statistics.
4. Allows for statistical comparison between various groups.
5. Has precision, is definitive and standardized.
6. Measures level of occurrence, actions, trends, etc.
7. Can answer such questions as "How many?" and "How
often?"
 WEAKNESS
1. It may be time consuming considering a large sample.
2. Exact answers may not be properly represented because
they are quantitatively expressed.
3. Statistical calculations are complex for some people.
4. Too much methodology may dismay researchers,
randomization in the selection of a sample
5. Not all quantitative data are extensively discussed and
interpreted.
 STANDARDS QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE
QUALITATIVE
Researcher's VS. QUANTITATIVE
Subjective; Objective; least
involvement with sometimes involvement by the
the object or personally researcher
subject of the engaged
study
Expression of Verbal language Numerals,
data, data (words, visuals, statistics
analysis, and objects)
findings
Research plan Takes place as the Plans all research
research proceeds aspects before
gradually collecting data
 STANDARDS QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE
Behavior toward Desires to Control or
research preserve the manipulation of
aspects/conditions natural setting of research
research features conditions by the
researcher
Obtaining Multiple methods Scientific method
knowledge
Purpose Makes social Evaluates
intentions objectives and
understandable examines cause-
effect relationships
 STANDARDS QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE
Data-analysis Thematic codal Mathematically
technique ways, based methods
competence-based
Style of expression Personal, lacks Impersonal,
formality scientific, or
systematic
Sampling More inclined to Random sampling
technique purposive sampling as the most
or use of chosen preferred
samples based on
some criteria