Module 1 NATURE OF INQUIRY AND RESEARCH b y: Robbie D. Pineda
LESSON 1 The Importance of Research in Daily Life
What to Know Research is significant in our everyday activities. It is the result of a thinking process that involves students in questioning techniques or models . Research is 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 Practical Research 1
What to Know Research requires you to inquire or investigate about your chosen research topic by asking questions that will make you engage yourself in top-level thinking strategies of interpreting, analyzing, synthesizing, criticizing, appreciating, or creating to enable you to discover truths about the many things you tend to wonder about the topic of your research work. ( Litchman 2013) 4 Practical Research 1
Inquiry Model Source : Focus on Inquiry: A Teacher’s Guide to Implementing Inquiry-based Learning. 5 Practical Research 1
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How does inquiry and research facilitate in finding solutions to real-life problems and develop critical thinking skills and lifelong learning? 12 Practical Research 1
Importance of Research in Daily Life It promotes people’s interdependence or interpersonal relationships that the world needs for solving its societal problems . Research studies happen in any field of knowledge. Anthropology, Business, Communication, Education, Engineering, Law, and Nursing, among others, turn in a big number of research studies that reflect varied interests of people. Practical Research 1 13
Importance of Research in Daily Life Resulting from internal aspects, people cannot measure worldviews but can know them through numbers. Obtaining world knowledge in this manner directs you to do a research called Qualitative Research . This is a research type that puts premium or high value on people’s thinking or point of view conditioned by their personal traits. As such, it usually takes place in soft sciences like social sciences, politics, economics, humanities, education, psychology, nursing, and all business-related subjects. Practical Research 1 14
Importance of Research in Daily Life In a qualitative research, the reality is conditioned by society and people’s intentions are involved in explaining cause-effect relationships. Things are studied in their natural setting, enough for you to conclude that qualitative research is an act of inquiry or investigation of real-life events . The importance of any researches in any of these two areas in business are to increase man’s understanding of the truths in line with markets and marketing activities, making him more intelligent in arriving at decisions about these aspects of his life. Research types that are useful for these areas are the basic and applied research. (Feinberg 2013) Practical Research 1 15
Importance of Research in Daily Life Qualitative research is important in promoting a full understanding of human behavior or personality traits in their natural setting. Research is instrumental for positive societal changes. It engenders respect for people’s individuality as it demands the researcher’s careful and attentive stand toward people’s world views. Practical Research 1 16
Importance of Research in Daily Life Research helps in a way of understanding and interpreting social interactions. Research increases the researcher’s interest in the study as it includes the researcher’s experience or background knowledge in interpreting verbal and visual data. It offers multiple ways of acquiring and examining knowledge about something. Practical Research 1 17
What to Process Compose an essay regarding the use of research in their daily life as a student. 18 Practical Research 1