Inquiry, Investigation and

Immersion
RAYMUND S. BRIONES
Sorsogon City Division
 Inquiry – Based Learning
Learning is your way of obtaining knowledge about
your surroundings. This takes place in many ways and
one of these is inquiry.

Inquiry
- is a learning process that motivates you to obtain
knowledge or information about people, things,
places or events.
- You do this by investigating or asking questions
- It requires you to collect data, meaning, facts and
information

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 Inquiry – Based Learning
 When you analyze things, you execute thinking
strategies that range from lower-order thinking skills
to higher-order thinking skills
 Engaging yourself in many ways of thinking, you come
to conclude that inquiry is an active learning process.
 Inquiry is a problem solving technique

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 What is research?

 Research is what we do when we have a question

or a problem we want to resolve
 We may already think we know the answer to our
question already
 We may think the answer is obvious, common
sense even
 But until we have subjected our problem to
rigorous scientific scrutiny, our 'knowledge'
remains little more than guesswork or at best,
intuition.

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 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
conclusion
 Analogous to inquiry, in that, both involve
investigation of something through questioning
 Central to research is your way of discovering new
knowledge, applying knowledge in various ways as
well as seeing relationship of ideas, events and
situation

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 Characteristics of Research
 Accuracy – It must give correct or accurate data
 Objectiveness – it must deal with facts, not mere opinion
 Timeliness – it must work on a topic that is fresh, new and
interesting to the present society
 Relevance – its topic must be instrumental in improving
society or in solving problems affecting the lives of people
in a community
 Clarity – expressing new knowledge by using simple, direct,
concise and correct language
 Systematic – it must take place in an organized or orderly
manner
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 Types of Research
 BASED ON APPLICATION OF RESEARCH METHOD
a. Pure Research – aims to increase your knowledge about
something
b. Applied Research – if your intention is to apply your chosen
research to societal problem or issues and finding ways to make
positive change in society
• BASED ON PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH
a. Descriptive – defining, describing or giving a verbal portrayal of
a person, thing, event, group, situation and etc.
b. Correlational Research – shows relationship or connectedness
of two or more variables that affect the research. Concerned
only in identifying relationship
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 Types of Research
c. Explanatory Research – elaborates or explains not just the
reasons behind the relationship of two factors, but also the ways
by which such relationship exist
d. Exploratory Research – the purpose is to find out how
reasonable or possible is to conduct a research study on a certain
topic. Here, you will discover ideas on topic that could trigger
your interest in conducting research studies.
e. Action Research – studies an ongoing practices of an
organization

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 Types of Research
 BASED ON TYPE OF DATA NEEDED
a. Qualitative Research – requires non-numerical data, which
means that the researcher uses words rather than numbers
to express new ideas.
b. Quantitative Research – involves measurement of data

Recall:
Primary data: obtained through direct observation or contact
with people, objects, artifacts, paintings, etc
Secondary data: written text related to your topic

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 Approaches to Research
 SCIENTIFIC OR POSITIVE APPROACH – discover or measure
information as well as observe and control variable
 NATURALISTIC APPROACH – in contrast to scientific approach,
naturalistic approach uses words
 TRIANGULATION APPROACH

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Qualitative Vs. Quantitative Research

QUALITATIVE: QUANTITATIVE:
- Puts premium or high - Explaining phenomena by
value on peoples thinking collecting numerical data
or point of view that are analyzed using
conditioned by their mathematically based
personal traits method
- Usually takes place in soft - Usually takes place in
sciences hard science

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Qualitative Vs. Quantitative Research
(as to Methods)
QUALITATIVE: QUANTITATIVE:
- Case study - Experimental
- Ethnography - Non-experimental
- Phenomenology Research (ex. Descriptive,
- Content and Discourse correlational,
Analysis (Examination of comparative and
mode of communication) evaluative)
- Historical Analysis
- Grounded Theory

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 Variables

 Any factor that a researcher measures,

controls and or/manipulates

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 Classification of Variables
 independent –usually manipulated
 Dependent – affected by the manipulation of
independent Variables
 Intervening – already existing during the conduct of
an experiment and could influence the result of the
study

“Use of Gardening Tools and Types of Fertilizer: Their

effects on the Amount of Harvest”

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 Guidelines in Formulating Title
- Summarize the Main idea of the topic
- Be a concise statement of the main topic
- Include the major variable/s
- Show the relationship of the main variable of the study

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 Statement of the Problem
 Main task – satisfy the question “what to do” with the major
variable such as to assess, measure, determine and etc
 Main or major variable
 Participants
 Settings
 Coverage date
 Intended output ( for developmental Outputs)

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