TR. SCHIEVVIE MAE R.

ABANILLA

MODULE 1
NATURE OF INQUIRY AND
RESEARCH
 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.
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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)

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Inquiry Model

Source: Focus on
Inquiry:
A Teacher’s
Guide to
Implementing
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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?
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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.
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 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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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What to Process
Compose an essay
regarding the use of
research in their daily
life as a student.
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See you again
next time
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