RESEARCH

ACTIVITY 2
By Group
Differentiate inquiry and research.
INQUIRY RESEARCH
 CRITERIA 4 3 2 1
TEAMWORK Everyone is fully Everyone is The group is The group is not
engaged with engaged most of engaged but can engaged
effective the time be distracted
exchange of ideas
ACCURACY The answer is The answer is The answer is Answer is
completely correct mostly correct mostly incorrect completely
incorrect
NEATNESS The work is The work had a The work has few The work contains
presented in a little erasures that is erasures and may many erasures and
neat and clear usually easy to be hard to read at appears
manner that is read times unorganized
easy to read
EXPLANATION Accurately Satisfactorily Limited Inaccurately
communicates communicates communication of communicates
solution to solution to solution to solution to problem
problems and problems and problems and and concepts
concepts concepts concepts
TIME Was able to finish Exceeded the time Exceeded the time Exceeded too
and explain the allotment by less allotment by two much in the
MANAGEMENT work within the than 1 minute minutes allotment
allotted time
What is research?

• A process of executing various mental acts for discovering

and examining facts and information to prove the
accuracy or truthfulness of your claims or conclusions
about the topic of your research
• It is a analogous to inquiry, in that both involve
investigation of something through questioning.
• It is a way of discovering new knowledge, applying
knowledge in various ways as well as seeing relationships of
ideas, events, and situations.
• It is a systematic investigation
designed to extend the knowledge of
what is already known of the physical,
biological, or social world. (University
of San Diego, para 1)
• It is a truth-seeking activity which
contributes to knowledge, aimed at
describing or explaining the world.
(Coryn 2017)
How important is
research in our daily life?
• It describes what is happening around us.
Through this, we get to know what people
think, feel and do.
• It explains why things happen in certain
ways. Through this we get to understand
different situations in our lives and helps us
identify the factors that hinder or facilitate
why certain things fail.
• It predicts what will happen. Through this,
we get to caution ourselves in doing or
not doing something.
• It evaluates what happened in our lives
• It solve our problems.
CHARACTERISTICS
OF RESEARCH
1. Accuracy
• It must give correct or accurate data,
which the footnotes, notes,
bibliographical entries should honestly
and appropriately documented or
acknowledge.
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.
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
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
skills of inferring, evaluating,
synthesizing, appreciating, applying,
and creating
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 the domination or strong influence
of a single textbook or of the professor’s
lone viewpoint or spoon feeding.
• Identify what is being asked in each statement.

• 1. Characteristics of research that states that research must take place

in an organized or orderly manner.

• 2. A process of executing various mental acts for discovering and

examining facts and information to prove the accuracy or truthfulness
of your claims or conclusions about the topic of your research.

• 3. It states that research topic must be instrumental in improving

society or in solving problems affecting the lives of people in a
community.

• 4. It must give correct or accurate data, which the footnotes, notes,

bibliographical entries should honestly and appropriately documented
or acknowledge.

• 5. It must work on a topic that is fresh, new, and interesting to the

present society.