PREPARED BY:

MS. KHRISSYL ANN SOLIDO, LPT

QUESTIONS INQUIRIES RESEARCH
 INQUIRY
- quest for truth, information or
knowledge through questioning.

“How people Learn”, 1999

1. What is the name of your school?

2. Are children of permissive parents more creative than children of

non-permissive parents?
3. Who discovered oxygen?

4. Who is the most beautiful woman in the Philippines?

5. Will it rain tomorrow?

6. 8+6=
Are the people in Mars more advanced than the people
7. on Earth?
8. Will you get into the college of your own choice?
 WHICH OF
THE
QUESTIONS
CAN YOU
ANSWER
WITH
ABSOLUTE
CERTAINTY?
 WHICH OF
THE
QUESTIONS
WILL ENABLE
YOU TO GIVE
FACTUAL
INFORMATION
?
 WHICH OF
THE
QUESTIONS
WILL REQUIRE
YOU THE
AMOUNT OF
DEFINITION
BEFORE YOU
TRY TO
ANSWER
THEM?
 WHICH OF
THE
QUESTIONS
WILL REQUIRE
THE
TESTIMONY
OF THE
EXPERTS?
 WHICH OF
THE
QUESTIONS
MAY HAVE
FALSE
ASSUMPTION
?
 WHICH OF
THE
QUESTIONS
REQUIRE
PREDICTIONS
AS ANSWERS?
 “YES,
WE
WORK
BUT
WE'RE
NOT
SLAVES
”
EMPLOYEE

EMPLOYER
 RESEARCH
- is the acquisition of new knowledge
through a purposive, organized and
designed programs of activities.
- seeks to find answers to the
problems.
 GOOD RESEARCH
CONSIDER THE NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF OTHER
PEOPLE, COMMUNITY, SOCIETY.
RESEARCH SHOULD BE SUITABLE ON THE LEVEL OF
EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE OF THE RESEARCHER.
CONSIDERS THE ELEMENTS OF TIME, LOCATION AND
MONEY.
 Is research
beneficial
to students?
 Research is not only beneficial to
students, but also essential to life. It
is undisputed that researches which
are aimed to explore the recesses of
knowledge would bring about
change that precede growth and
development.
AIMS OF RESEARCH
Produce new knowledge or information
Utilize new knowledge
Validate existing knowledge
Improve the investigator/researcher
WE ATE THE CHILDREN LAST
BY: YANN MARTEL
READING ACTIVITY
Types of Research
Research is the formal, systematic application of
scholarship, disciplined inquiry, and most often the
Scientific Method to the study of problems.
Research methodologies include:

Experimental research Ethnographic research

Correlational research Historical research
Causal-comparative research Action research
Survey research
TYPES OF RESEARCH ACCORDING ON
THE AIMS OF THE RESEARCHER
Basic Research
• conducted to come up with a new
knowledge or to have a fuller
understanding of a particular subject
Applied Research
for its own sake.
• is done to find an application of the
knowledge, whether it be old or new.
 TYPES OF RESEARCH
ACCORDING ON DESIGNS
Qualitative Research
• focuses on words or ideas, pictures, videos, sounds,
smells, objects or artifacts, and other non-numerical
data.

Quantative Research
• deals with numbers or numerical data, such as
height, width, length, age, speed, time, size and
temperature among things that can be measured.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
- gain a deeper awareness of human
behavior and reasons that control such
behaviors.
- produce information on specific
cases rather than general
conclusions.
 general conclusions

specific case
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH:
DATA COLLECTION
INTERVIEWS
NARRATION
STORYTELLING
SHADOWING
EXPERIMENTS
 INTERVIEW TIPS
PREPARE QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE
AVOID ASKING “YES” AND “NO” QUESTIONS

WAIT FOR ANSWERS. DON'T INTERRUPT THE

INTERVIEWEE.
ASK PERMISSION TO TAPE THE INTERVIEW
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH:
DATA COLLECTION

POLLS

SURVEYS QUESTIONNAIRES
 SURVEY TIPS
SELECT PROSPECTIVE RESPONDENTS
PROVIDE A LIMITED NUMBER OF RESPONSES

USE SCALE IN ASKING YOUR RESPONDENTS

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
ACROSS DISCIPLINES
MEDICAL FIELD
HOUSEHOLD CENSUS
MARKET RESEARCH
FINANCE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH ACROSS DISCIPLINES
NATURAL SCIENCES: Any of the sciences that deal
with matter, energy, and their interrelations and
transformations or with measurable phenomena.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES: branch of learning,

conscious use of skill and creative imagination
especially in the production of aesthetic objects.

SOCIAL SCIENCES: it deals with the institutions and

functioning of human society and with the
relationship of the members of the society
SOURCES OF RESEARCH TOPIC
PEOPLE

PLACES

OBJECTS

EVENTS
ACTIVITY TIME!
 Group I
MATCH THE DIFFERENT CONCEPTS GIVEN WITH THE
SOURCES OF RESEARCH TOPICS
PEOPLE PLACES OBJECTS EVENTS
• EXPERIMENTATION
• STUDENTS • CLASSROOM • SPECIMEN
 Group II
IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF KNOWLEDGE
UNDER EACH MAJOR DISCIPLINE
NATURAL ARTS AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES HUMANITIES SCIENCES
 Group III
MATCH THE DIFFERENT FORMS AND TOOLS NECESSARY
IN RESEARCH BASE ON THE CATEGORY

CATEGORY FORMS TOOLS

• TEXT DOCUMENTS PEN AND PAPER

• AUDIO
• AUDIO-
VISUAL
QUIZ
For each topic below, determine the appropriate type of research by
writing whether the topics are quantitative or qualitative research.
TOPICS QUALITATIVE/QUANTITATIVE
1. Effects of single parent families on children's
education
2. Satisfaction of senior citizens on PhilHealth
claims
3. Prevalence of showbiz fanaticism among
teenagers
4. Impacts of Metro Manila traffic on student
commuters
5. Frequency of driving under the influence of
alcohol in the Philippines
 Assignment

Write 5 qualitative research topics and 5

quantitative research topics that you would
like to conduct a study about. Write it on a
short bondpaper.