KII and FGD Tool Development Workshop

27-29 December 2016

Jehan Hall, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City

THE IMPORTANCE OF
RESEARCH IN EDUCATION AND
DEVELOPMENT WORK
PRESENTED BY:
RUFA CAGOCO-GUIAM,
National Inclusive Education and Gender Specialist (NIEGS)
BEAM - ARMM
Main points in the presentation

The Issues and On

Concerns in assessments
Importance Education and and
of evaluations of
development learning
Research work outcomes

KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,

27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City
DOING RESEARCH:

ITS IMPORTANCE AND

RELEVANCE
KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,
27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City
RESEARCH IS VITAL IN PROMOTING A KNOWLEDGE-
BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL
INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATION.
“An unexamined life is not worth
living.” - Socrates

“Without research, a university is

nothing but a glorified high school.”
-Teodoro Agoncillo, historian

Knowledge is Power – the power to promote

rationalized planning, anticipatory,
entrepreneurial and pro-active
management in DepEd - ARMM

Research is the anchor upon which a

knowledge management culture can be
nurtured
 Have we developed a “research culture”?
Researcher – planner?
Development worker?

Culture as a way of life

Research Culture – Research as

a way of life

KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,

27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City
 Have we developed a “knowledge management
culture”?
Data base
Managing
management knowledge to Through
Researcher – planner?

to contribute Produce research

contribute to
Development worker?

knowledge
to development social
responsibility

Basis for
Using new doing
knowledge implementation Use knowledge to more
produce new research
for knowledge
extension

Use new
knowledge for Research –
instruction based decision
making
Research as a Knowledge Management oriented
Culture
Issues and concerns on
education and
development work

KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,

27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City
Our shared responsibility as educators:
“…WE ARE EXPECTED TO FORM LEADERS WHO WILL UPLIFT
THE QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH QUALITY RESEARCH TO PUSH
THE FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ITS UTILIZATION IN THE
COMMUNITY, THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD…”

PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATION (PAGE)

Basic Research and Technical Writing Workshop for DepEd-ARMM

10-13 October 2016 Estosan Hotel, Cotabato City
 OUR PRIVILEGED POSITION VS. OUR REALITIES…

As
intellectual Secure in
elites… our comfy
ivory But we are also
towers… overloaded…
We have
multiple
burdens…
RESEARCH AND EXTENSION – JOINT MONITORING OF WASH
PROJECT, SITIO FLUME, DATAL TAMPAL, MALUNGON

Focus Group Discussion with PTA officers,

community leaders in Sitio Flume (Joint
Monitoring Team composed of MSU-GSC,
Mahintana Foundation, LGU Malungon,
MCDOI,
Program managed by the De La Salle
University – Robredo Institute of
Governance, (World Bank funding)
And MSU-GSC
(FGD facilitators: Prof. L Doce and Prof. L
Reyes)

Result of VENN Diagramming

 KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,
27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IS THE MANTRA OF THE

CORPORATE WORLD TO SHOW ONE FIRM’S
COMPETITIVE EDGE – HITTING TWO BIRDS WITH
ONE STONE…
Academics and the DepEd can learn from this too…
 KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,
27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City

GOOD GOVERNANCE IS ALSO THE MANTRA OF

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES…WHERE PROCESS IS AS
IMPORTANT AS THE PRODUCT; INTEGRITY IN THE
PROCESS IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE RESULTS…

KII and FGD Tools Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM,

KII and FGD27-29
Tools December
Development Workshop
2016, for DepEd
Alnor Hotel, – ARMM,
Cotabato City
KII and FGD27-29
Tools December
Development Workshop for DepEd – ARMM
2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato City
27-29 December 2016, Alnor Hotel, Cotabato Ci
Collaboration or
Partnership
Is the KEY…
(importance of understanding) CONTEXT

COORDINATION

COMPLEMENTARITY

COHERENCE

ACCOUNTABILITY
TRANSPARENCY
TIMELINESS
 “Start where you are…
Use what you have…
Do what you can…”

-Arthur Ashe, 1st African-American champion tennis player

WHAT IS RESEARCH?

RE (again)
SEARCH for KNOWLEDGE

How do we know?
Methods of knowing
- sensory
-verbal/oral communication
-opinion of experts
- scientific method
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

- FOLLOWS A SYSTEM
- TEDIOUS
- METICULOUS
- OBJECTIVE (BIAS FREE?)
- CAN BE REPLICATED
- FACTUAL
- KNOWN (TRANSPARENT)
- DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRUTHS
- Narrative -evidence based
- Forensic -verifiable, observable
-some reminders:
- no such thing as “complete” research project
- knowledge from previous researches is the basis for new
and subsequent research projects
- some problems are researchable; some are not

EXAMPLES OF “NON-RESEARCHABLE” PROBLEMS

1. Speculative
2. Questions on something that did not happen yet
3. Questions on mystical and deeply religious issues and concern
4. Questions about “should be” “ought to be” or about value
systems
5. Questions that have only one answer.
IDENTIFYING RESEARCH PROBLEMS
1. WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF PRES DUTERTE
DID NOT WIN IN THE LAST ELECTION?
2. IS THERE A GOD?
3. WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THERE ARE NO TYPHOONS?
4. WHO IS THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA?
5. SHOULD GRADUATE STUDENTS TAKE A COURSE IN
VALUES EDUCATION?
Research Approaches – depending on
your sources of data
Data
numerical – quantitative, “thin”
description, countable units, measurable:
more broad and wide but lacks depth
textual – qualitative “thick
description” – more in depth but narrow
coverage
QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES OF GATHERING DATA
- SURVEY (SAMPLE, ONE SHOT, LONGITUDINAL, PANEL)
- POLLS
- CHECKLISTS
- TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS
- CAPACITIES ASSESSMENTS
- OTHERS THAT CAN BE QUANTIFIABLE, MEASURABLE IN TERMS
OF UNITS, NUMBERS, DISCRETE DATA

METHODS OF ANALYSIS

STATISTICAL TREATMENT
- FREQUENCY COUNTS
-AVERAGES : MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE