PR 2

Question 1

HOTS

Answer 1

higher-order thinking
strategies

Question 2

Thinking in this manner
makes you ask open-ended
questions to elicit views, opinions,
and beliefs of others in relation to
your research.

Answer 2

(Small 2012)

Question 3

an act of asking questions

a process that has the aim of
augmenting knowledge, resolving
doubt or solving problem.

Answer 3

INQUIRY

Question 4

a systematic examination of a
certain event or phenomenon

Answer 4

INVESTIGATION

Question 5

What makes research different
from investigation is that the
former undergoes

Answer 5

“immersion”

Question 6

a process whereby a researcher
immerses (deeply involves) himself
in the data gathering activities and
the data he has gathered are
carefully read or examined by him
in details.

Answer 6

IMMERSION

Question 7

Conducting the …are part of
immersion activities of a qualitative
researcher.

Answer 7

interviews and
focus group discussions (FGDs) as
well as participatory rapid
appraisal (PRA)

Question 8

a systematic and refined technique
of thinking, employing specialized
tools, instruments, and procedures
in order to obtain a more adequate
solution to a problem.

Answer 8

RESEARCH

Question 9

Research Process

Answer 9

• starts with a problem
• going to the
  collection of data
• analysis and
  interpretation of incontrovertible
  facts and evidences
• ends with a problem

Question 10

Research instruments

Answer 10

checklist, survey questionnaire and
multiple-choice paper-pencil test

Question 11

makes you focus your mind on
specific things by means of
statistics that involve collection and
study of numerical data.

Answer 11

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

Question 12

research is a way of making any
phenomenon or any sensory
experience clearer or more
meaningful by gathering and
examining facts and information
about such person, thing, place, or
event appealing to your senses.

Answer 12

(Suter 2012; Russell 2013)

Question 13

IMPORTANCE

Answer 13

• obtaining an objective
  understanding of people, things,
  places, and events in this world;
  meaning
• study their
  surroundings as objective as they
  can
• obtain
  information about specified
  personality traits of a group
  member or of the group as a whole

Question 14

CHARACTERISTICS

Answer 14

• structured research instruments.
• larger sample sizes that are randomly chosen
• replicated or repeated
• defined research question
• aspects of the study are carefully designed before data are collected.
• numbers and statistics
• tables, graphs, figures or other non-textual forms
• generalize concepts more widely, predict future results, or investigate causal relationships
• questionnaires or computer software,
  to collect numerical data
• Findings are reusable

Question 15

Strengths

Answer 15

• can test and validate
• tests hypotheses
• can generalize research findings and replicated
• predictions about significant events
• precise quantitative numerical data
• have higher credibility with people in power
• data analysis is less time consuming
• some quantitative methods are relatively quick

Question 16

Weaknesses

Answer 16

• difficulty in data analysis
• extra resources
• expensive and lots of time for statistics
• limited outcomes
• a lot of resources for data collection
• prone to manipulation

Question 17

To observe and report on
a certain phenomenon

Answer 17

Descriptive Research

Question 18

test for the relationship between
two variables

Answer 18

Correlational Research

Question 19

obtain scores from 2
variables for each subject, then use
them to calculate a correlation
coefficient

Answer 19

Bivariate

Question 20

one predictor
variable predicts a criterion
variable

Answer 20

Prediction Studies

Question 21

Using other variables
which contribute to an overall
prediction in an equation that adds
together the predictive power of
each identified variable

Answer 21

Multiple Regression Prediction
Studies

Question 22

this research
methods are employed to measure
the existing phenomenon without inquiring into why it exists. This
type of research is used to describe
trends

Answer 22

Survey Research

Question 23

approach to
problem - solving seeks to answer
question to real facts relating to
existing conditions

Answer 23

Status Research

Question 24

this
method is employed in natural
sciences subjects; collected,
identified and classified from
taxonomic order

Answer 24

Classification Research

Question 25

this kind of
research aims to assess the effects,
impacts or outcomes of practices,
policies or program

Answer 25

Evaluation Research

Question 26

To determine the nature
of relationship between
variables without looking
into causation

Answer 26

Expo- Facto Research

Question 27

To identify a problem
and determines a plan of
action to address it and
to determine the effects
of the action
implemented

Answer 27

Action Research

Question 28

To establish cause-and-
effect relationship

Answer 28

Quasi-Experimental Research

Question 29

The random
assignment of
individual
subjects provides
more
conclusiveness as
to the casual
relationship
between the
variables

Answer 29

Pure Experimental Research

Question 30

Individual
subjects are
randomly
assigned to
treatment and
control groups

Answer 30

Pre- Experimental Research