Lessons 1-8 Flashcards
It refers to looking for information by asking questions about the things you are curious about.
Inquiry
It is a learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge about people, things, places and events.
Inquiry
How is inquiry done?
- Investigate or ask questions about something you are inquisitive about.
- Collect data, meaning, facts and information about the object of your inquiry and examine each data carefully.
- Execute varied thinking strategies that range from lower-order to higher-order thinking skills.
What is included within higher-order thinking skills?
inferential, critical, integrative, creative
It is a problem-solving technique acting like a scientist by imagining, speculating, interpreting, criticizing, and creating something of what you have discovered.
Inquiry
What are the three educational theories that inquiry-based learning gets its support from?
- John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for exploratory and reflexive thinking
- Lev Vygotsky’s Zones of Proximal Development (ZPD) that stresses the essence of provocation and scaffolding in learning
- Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’ varied world perceptions for their own interpretative thinking of people and things around them
What are the six elements of inquiry?
- Changing knowledge
- Creativity
- Subjectivity
- Socio-cultural factors
- Sensory experiences
- Higher-order thinking strategies
What are the nine benefits of inquiry-based learning?
- Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic skills
- Improves student learning abilities
- Widens learner’s vocabulary
- Facilitates problem-solving acts
- Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge
- Encourages cooperative learning
- Provides mastery of procedural knowledge
- Encourages higher-order thinking skills
- Hasten conceptual understanding
It refers to discovering truths by investigating on a chosen topic.
Research
It is the process of executing various mental acts for discovering and examining facts and information.
Research
Enumerate the purposes of research.
- To learn how to work independently
- To learn how to work scientifically or systematically
- To have an in-depth knowledge or something
- To elevate your mental abilities
- To improve your reading and writing skills
- To be familiar with the basic tools of research and the various techniques of gathering data and of presenting research findings
- To free yourself from the domination or strong influence of a single textbook or the professor’s lone viewpoint or spoon-feeding
What are the types of research based on research method?
Pure and applied
What are the types of research based on the research’s purpose?
Descriptive, correlational, action, exploratory
What are the types of research based on the types of data needed?
Qualitative and quantitative
Cite 2 examples of correlational research
Supply vs demand and consumer vs producer
Cite an example of descriptive research
a research about a micro-finance and micro-business
It aims to find out how reasonable or possible it is to conduct a research study on a certain topic.
Exploratory research
Two examples of exploratory research
the decline of Nokia’s Market and organic powder fertilizer (using left-over foods)
It is obtaining world knowledge that puts premium or high value on people’s thinking or point of view conditioned by their personal traits
Qualitative research
It usually takes place in soft sciences.
Qualitative research
What are under soft sciences?
social sciences, politics, economics, humanities, education, psychology, nursing and all business-related subjects
What is conditioned by society?
The reality
People’s intentions are involved in explaining _________________.
Cause-and-effect relationships
Characteristics of qualitative research
- Human understanding and interpretation
- Active, powerful and forceful
- Multiple research approaches and methods
- Specificity to generalization
- Contextualization
- Diversified data in real-life situations
- Abounds with words and visuals
- Internal analysis
A topic is researchable if the knowledge and information about it are supported by evidence that is ________, _______ and _______.
observable, factual, logical
Guidelines in choosing a research topic
- Interest in the subject matter
- Availability of information
- Timeliness and relevance of the topic
- Limitations on the subject
- Personal resources
Research topics to be avoided
- Controversial topics
- Highly technical subjects
- Hard-to-investigate subjects
- Too broad subjects
- Too narrow subjects
- Vague subjects
Sources of research topics
- Mass media communication- press (newspapers, ads, TV, radio, films, etc.)
- Books, Internet, peer-reviewed journals, government publications
- Professional periodicals
- General periodicals
- Previous reading assignments in your other subjects
- Work experience
The ultimate goal of the research is not only to propose ways of studying things, people, places and events, but also to _______.
discover and introduce new practices, strategies, or techniques in solving a problem
It is also another way to discover some theories or principles to support your study.
Reading for rich background ideas about the problem
Your __________ depends on the background knowledge you have about the topic.
ability to identify your research problem and to formulate the questions
These will lead you to identify one topic to research on.
Difficulties in life are problematic situations
These identify or direct you to the exact aspect of the problem that your study has to focus on.
Specific questions or sub-questions
Enumerate the purposes of RRL
- To obtain background knowledge of your research.
- To relate your study to the current condition or situation of the world.
- To show the capacity of your research work to introduce new knowledge.
- To expand, prove, or disprove the findings of previous research studies.
- To increase your understanding of the underlying theories, principles, or concepts of your research
- To explain technical terms involved in your research study.
- To highlight the significance of your work with the kind of evidence gathered to support the conclusion of your research.
- To avoid repeating research studies.
- To recommend the necessity of further research on a certain topic.
Enumerate the styles or approaches of RRL
Conceptual, critical, scoping, expert, state-of-the-art
It summarizes the present form of knowledge on a specific subject.
Traditional review of related literature
It aims to give a new understanding of an existing work.
Traditional review of related literature
It expects you to state your intentions in conducting the review and to name the sources of information.
Traditional review of related literature
It is the analysis of concepts or ideas to give meaning to some national or world issues.
Conceptual analysis
It focuses on theories or hypotheses and examines meanings and results of their application to situations.
Critical review
It makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the subject.
State-of-the-art review
It encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL because of the influence of a certain ideology, paradigm, or belief on him.
Expert review
It prepares a situation for a future research work in the form of project making about community development, government policies, and health services, among others.
Scoping review
