Lessons 1-8

Question 1

It refers to looking for information by asking questions about the things you are curious about.

Answer 1

Inquiry

Question 2

It is a learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge about people, things, places and events.

Answer 2

Inquiry

Question 3

How is inquiry done?

Answer 3

1. Investigate or ask questions about something you are inquisitive about.
2. Collect data, meaning, facts and information about the object of your inquiry and examine each data carefully.
3. Execute varied thinking strategies that range from lower-order to higher-order thinking skills.

Question 4

What is included within higher-order thinking skills?

Answer 4

inferential, critical, integrative, creative

Question 5

It is a problem-solving technique acting like a scientist by imagining, speculating, interpreting, criticizing, and creating something of what you have discovered.

Answer 5

Inquiry

Question 6

What are the three educational theories that inquiry-based learning gets its support from?

Answer 6

1. John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for exploratory and reflexive thinking
2. Lev Vygotsky’s Zones of Proximal Development (ZPD) that stresses the essence of provocation and scaffolding in learning
3. Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’ varied world perceptions for their own interpretative thinking of people and things around them

Question 7

What are the six elements of inquiry?

Answer 7

• Changing knowledge
• Creativity
• Subjectivity
• Socio-cultural factors
• Sensory experiences
• Higher-order thinking strategies

Question 8

What are the nine benefits of inquiry-based learning?

Answer 8

1. Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic skills
2. Improves student learning abilities
3. Widens learner’s vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-solving acts
5. Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge
6. Encourages cooperative learning
7. Provides mastery of procedural knowledge
8. Encourages higher-order thinking skills
9. Hasten conceptual understanding

Question 9

It refers to discovering truths by investigating on a chosen topic.

Answer 9

Research

Question 10

It is the process of executing various mental acts for discovering and examining facts and information.

Answer 10

Research

Question 11

Enumerate the purposes of research.

Answer 11

1. To learn how to work independently
2. To learn how to work scientifically or systematically
3. To have an in-depth knowledge or something
4. To elevate your mental abilities
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 from the domination or strong influence of a single textbook or the professor’s lone viewpoint or spoon-feeding

Question 12

What are the types of research based on research method?

Answer 12

Pure and applied

Question 13

What are the types of research based on the research’s purpose?

Answer 13

Descriptive, correlational, action, exploratory

Question 13

What are the types of research based on the types of data needed?

Answer 13

Qualitative and quantitative

Question 14

Cite 2 examples of correlational research

Answer 14

Supply vs demand and consumer vs producer

Question 14

Cite an example of descriptive research

Answer 14

a research about a micro-finance and micro-business

Question 15

It aims to find out how reasonable or possible it is to conduct a research study on a certain topic.

Answer 15

Exploratory research

Question 16

Two examples of exploratory research

Answer 16

the decline of Nokia’s Market and organic powder fertilizer (using left-over foods)

Question 17

It is obtaining world knowledge that puts premium or high value on people’s thinking or point of view conditioned by their personal traits

Answer 17

Qualitative research

Question 18

It usually takes place in soft sciences.

Answer 18

Qualitative research

Question 19

What are under soft sciences?

Answer 19

social sciences, politics, economics, humanities, education, psychology, nursing and all business-related subjects

Question 20

What is conditioned by society?

Answer 20

The reality

Question 21

People’s intentions are involved in explaining _________________.

Answer 21

Cause-and-effect relationships

Question 22

Characteristics of qualitative research

Answer 22

1. Human understanding and interpretation
2. Active, powerful and forceful
3. Multiple research approaches and methods
4. Specificity to generalization
5. Contextualization
6. Diversified data in real-life situations
7. Abounds with words and visuals
8. Internal analysis

Question 23

A topic is researchable if the knowledge and information about it are supported by evidence that is ________, _______ and _______.

Answer 23

observable, factual, logical

Question 24

Guidelines in choosing a research topic

Answer 24

1. Interest in the subject matter 2. Availability of information 3. Timeliness and relevance of the topic 4. Limitations on the subject 5. Personal resources

Question 25

Research topics to be avoided

Answer 25

1. Controversial topics 2. Highly technical subjects 3. Hard-to-investigate subjects 4. Too broad subjects 5. Too narrow subjects 6. Vague subjects

Question 26

Sources of research topics

Answer 26

1. Mass media communication- press (newspapers, ads, TV, radio, films, etc.) 2. Books, Internet, peer-reviewed journals, government publications 3. Professional periodicals 4. General periodicals 5. Previous reading assignments in your other subjects 6. Work experience

Question 27

The ultimate goal of the research is not only to propose ways of studying things, people, places and events, but also to _______.

Answer 27

discover and introduce new practices, strategies, or techniques in solving a problem

Question 28

It is also another way to discover some theories or principles to support your study.

Answer 28

Reading for rich background ideas about the problem

Question 29

Your __________ depends on the background knowledge you have about the topic.

Answer 29

ability to identify your research problem and to formulate the questions

Question 30

These will lead you to identify one topic to research on.

Answer 30

Difficulties in life are problematic situations

Question 31

These identify or direct you to the exact aspect of the problem that your study has to focus on.

Answer 31

Specific questions or sub-questions

Question 32

Enumerate the purposes of RRL

Answer 32

1. To obtain background knowledge of your research. 2. To relate your study to the current condition or situation of the world. 3. To show the capacity of your research work to introduce new knowledge. 4. To expand, prove, or disprove the findings of previous research studies. 5. To increase your understanding of the underlying theories, principles, or concepts of your research 6. To explain technical terms involved in your research study. 7. To highlight the significance of your work with the kind of evidence gathered to support the conclusion of your research. 8. To avoid repeating research studies. 9. To recommend the necessity of further research on a certain topic.

Question 33

Enumerate the styles or approaches of RRL

Answer 33

Conceptual, critical, scoping, expert, state-of-the-art

Question 34

It summarizes the present form of knowledge on a specific subject.

Answer 34

Traditional review of related literature

Question 35

It aims to give a new understanding of an existing work.

Answer 35

Traditional review of related literature

Question 36

It expects you to state your intentions in conducting the review and to name the sources of information.

Answer 36

Traditional review of related literature

Question 37

It is the analysis of concepts or ideas to give meaning to some national or world issues.

Answer 37

Conceptual analysis

Question 38

It focuses on theories or hypotheses and examines meanings and results of their application to situations.

Answer 38

Critical review

Question 39

It makes the researcher deal with the latest research studies on the subject.

Answer 39

State-of-the-art review

Question 40

It encourages a well-known expert to do the RRL because of the influence of a certain ideology, paradigm, or belief on him.

Answer 40

Expert review

Question 41

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.

Answer 41

Scoping review