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Research 1 equips First Year students of science and technology-oriented high schools
with research skills that will enable them to prepare research reports, investigatory projects, and
a research proposal utilizing information obtained from library and on-line resources.
As their first formal instruction in research, this course aims, on the one hand, to develop
basic statistics skills needed in research, e.g. problem identification, knowledge of the types and
uses of data, data collection, and analysis. It likewise develops scientific and technical writing
skills required in writing and documenting research proposals and investigatory projects, among
others.
As such, in this course, Basic Statistics is taken together with scientific technical writing.
While Basic Statistics enables the students to gather, analyze, and organize data, Technical
Writing provides the basic concepts and skills in presenting information in descriptive and textual
form. The former underscores substance while the latter makes the learners aware of the
underlying structure of scientific discourse and the way in which sentences are combined to
communicate meaning.
Course Objectives:
After undergoing the activities in Research I, the learner should be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of variables, sampling techniques, data
collection, and the organization and presentation of data
2. Demonstrate skills in interpreting statistical results correctly
3. Demonstrate the ability to apply concepts in statistics to the project undertaken
4. Develop the ability to design a research proposal e.g., select and limit a research
topic, take notes, prepare an outline, write and document research
proposals/investigatory projects
5. Demonstrate the ability to write EST or scientific and technical papers such as
research proposals, scientific articles, and investigatory projects
6. Demonstrate oral skills in proposal defense
Program Goals:
(English for Science and Technology)
1. Exhibit the ability to make sense of EST text types
2. Determine the objectives of scientific discourse
3. Demonstrate the ability to choose the appropriate rhetorical mode, macrodiscourse
pattern and non-linear visual aids for conveying scientific and technical information
4. Demonstrate the ability to choose the appropriate rhetorical technique and signals
suited to the different EST text types
(Basic Statistics)
First Quarter:
1. Research
1.1. Purpose
1.2. Process (with emphasis on problem identification)
1.3. Areas covered
3. Types of paragraphs
4.1.1. Bibliography
books
periodicals
unpublished
materials retrieved from the Internet
4.1.2 Footnoting
explanatory
source
internal
6. Note-taking
13.1.1 time
13.1.2 space
13.1.3 causality and result
14.1 Types
14.1.1 complete
14.1.2 partial
14.1.3 implicit
16.1 Types
18. Rhetorical techniques that may be used to indicate visual and verbal
Relationships
Second Quarter
21.1 Reporting past studies and comparing them with the present study
21.2 Weak and strong author orientation
23.1 Presentation and critiquing of initial draft of the introduction and review
of
related literature
24.1 Quantitative
24.1.1 Survey
24.1.2 Experimental
24.1.3 Qualitative
24.1.4 Anthropological
24.1.5 Case studies
25. Methodology
24.2 Subjects
24.3 Sampling
24.4 Instruments
24.5 Treatment of data
28.1Oral defense
Basic Statistics
Third Quarter
1. Introduction to Statistics
1.1. Definitions
1.2. Types
1.3. Uses
1.4. Application
2.1. Definitions
2.2. Classifications
3. Summation Notation
4.1. Definition
4.2. Sampling Techniques
4.2.1 Simple Random
4.2.2 Stratified
4.2.3 Systematic
4.2.4 Other Methods
4.2.5 Sample Size
5. Collection of Data
5.1. Interview
5.2. Questionnaire
5.3. Observation
5.4. Experiment
6. Organization and Presentation of Data
6.1. Arrays
6.2. Frequency Distribution
6.3. Frequency Distribution Table
6.4. Cumulative Frequency Distribution
6.5. Relative Frequency Distribution
6.6. Graphs
o Line Graph
o Bar Graph
o Pictograph
o Pie Chart
6.7 Ogive
6.8 Histogram
8. Computer application
9.1. Quantile
9.2. Decile
9.3. Percentile
10.1 Range
10.2 Mean Deviation
10.3 Variance and Standard Deviation
11. Probability
After going through the activities, in the Research 1 course, the learner shall have
developed the following competencies:
1.1. Identify EST texts, i.e. English texts that present facts, hypotheses, and other
instances of scientific and technical information
1.2. Contrast the text structure of different scientific texts e.g. research proposals,
scientific articles, reports, abstracts, etc.
4.2. Identify and use markers/transition signals suited to the rhetorical patters in
EST discourse: e.g., first, second, thus, hence, in contrast, as figure 1 shows,
etc.
4.3. Plan and write original EST paragraphs using the technique and signals
suited to various EST text types
5.1. Identify the full form and variants of the macro-discourse patterns of EST
discourse
5.1.1. Problem-Solution (PSn)
Situation Problem
Attempted solution
Result Evaluation
5.1.2. Topic-Restriction-Illustration (TRI)
5.2. Describe the combination of the two macro discourse patterns
5.3. Use the macro-discourse pattern suited to the overall objective of the text
5.4. Use the general-to-specific discourse pattern in texts
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
(Basic Statistics)
5. Manifest ability to apply the different methods of collecting data and its necessary
instruments.
6.5 Identify which graph is best to use for a given set of data
6.6 Analyze the frequency distribution table and of the graph
6.7 Make conclusions on the basis of the analysis of frequency distribution table
or the graph
6.8 Construct a crossbreak table of the data in the study
7. Manifest ability to compute and interpret the three measures of central tendency
in both grouped and ungrouped data
7.1 Differentiate the three measure of central tendency: mean, median, mode
7.2 Compute the mean, median and mode of ungrouped and grouped data
7.3 Compare the mean, median and mode of ungrouped and grouped data
7.4 Determine which measure is most appropriate to use for the study
7.5 Interpret the mean, median and mode of grouped and ungrouped data
9.1 Differentiate the three measures of variability, rage, mean deviation and
standard deviation
9.2 Calculate the range, mean deviation and standard deviation of a frequency
distribution of data
9.3 Show examples where different measures of variability is observe
9.4 Recognize the significance of range, mean deviation and standard
9.5 Interpret the range, mean deviation and standard deviation of ungrouped data
9.6 Explain how any particular score in a in a normal distribution can be
interpreted in standard deviation units
9.7 Explain how to interpret a normal distribution
9.8 Construct and interpret a scatterplot
11. Demonstrate skill in using the computer as a tool for computing Measures of
variability and Relative Position of data
11.1Use MS EXCEL proficiently in working with problems involving
measures of relative position and measures of variability
11.2 Use statistical package software in analyzing and interpreting data
12. Manifest ability to apply all the previously learned concepts in producing a mini-
research project
13. Demonstrate ability to compute the probability of an event using the properties
of probability and operations of events.