Module 1

z Sharing Research Experiences

and knowledge
Content: Nature of Inquiry and Research

Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of:

1. The importance of research in daily life
2. The characteristics, processes, and ethics of research
3. Quantitative and qualitative research
4. The kinds of research across fields

Performance Standard: The learner is able to use appropriate kinds of research in

making decisions.

Learning Competency: The learner:

CS_RS11-IIIa-1 shares research experiences and
knowledge

Nazarene Madapin-Pihet

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 Lesson 1 – Sharing research experiences and knowledge
Introduction

Research has become a mandate of the K-12 curriculum. You, like other Senior High
School students, are expected to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills through
research.
In this lesson, you will find activities that will provide opportunity for you to share
your experiences and prior knowledge on the definition of inquiry and research. In addition,
informative articles and other challenging activities will help you appreciate research as your
great tool in accomplishing your purposes and needs. After this lesson, you are expected to
demonstrate this learning competency:
CS_RS11-IIIa-1 shares research experiences and knowledge

 YOUR PRE-ASSESSMENT

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if incorrect. For FALSE
statements, write the correction/s above the wrong word/ phrase in the sentence.

1. Research is an end in itself.

2. Research is not important to man and therefore, unnecessary.

3. Research helps students improve their reading and writing skills.

4. Qualitatve research uses numerical data rather than words to express results of the
investigation.

5. Research must take place in an organized or orderly manner.

6. Inquiry is done by merely asking in order to obtain the desired information.

7. Research and inquiry are synonymous.

8. Research is investigating a process again and again to achieve the desired outcome.

9. To conduct a research activity is to seek for solutions to problems.

10. Research is a tool in improving the quality of life.

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 Lesson 1.1. Meaning of Inquiry
 YOUR TEXT
Learning is your way of obtaining knowledge about your surroundings. This takes place
in many ways, and one of these is inquiry, which many people in the field of education consider
effective. Inquiry is a learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge or information
about people, things, places, or events. You do this by investigating or asking questions about
something you are inquisitive about. It requires you to collect data, meaning, facts, and
information about the object of your inquiry, and examine such data carefully. Engaging yourself
in many ways of thinking, you come to conclude that inquiry is an active learning process (Badke
2012).

Lesson 1.2. Meaning of Research

Systematic collection and interpretation of data to illuminate, describe or explain

new facts and relationships (Treece, 2002)
Searching for new knowledge using systematic inquiry, appropriate tools or
instruments and presented with technical format of writing (Guinsiman 2019)
Identifying a problem and finding for possible solutions
Applying science systematically to unlock a phenomena

The meaning of research is explained through analysis of the word “research”. It comes
from the root word, “search” meaning, to look for, find, seek, inquire, investigate and explore.
The application of the word “search” in the world of research is to:

1. Negate and affirm existing ideas, theories, and findings.

2. Improve or revise existing ideas, theories, and findings.
3. Create something new or new model either by putting together ideas, theories or
findings or separating concept, ideas, theories, and findings.
4. Interpret ideas, theories, and findings.

The meaning of the prefix “re’ means again, therefore; research is to investigate a process
again and again until research outputs are improved and acepted by intended users. It is a cycle of
process since change affects the process of research. There is a need to repeat the process in order
to establish reliability and validity of research conducted.

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Activity 2. Directions: Present your understanding of inquiry and research through a
sentence outline.

I. Inquiry II. Research

Example: Inquiry is a learning process. Ex: Research is discovering new knowledge.

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4. 4.

5. 5.

Activity 3. Directions: Read each statement and identify whether the situation needs inquiry
or research. Write your answer on the blank before each item.

1. Fe wants to have a list of students who are working as housemaids.

2. Johny is working on an experiment to find out the potency of Makabuhay
as pesticide.
3. Aling Helen needs to know how to operate the eletric juicer.
4. A businessman wants to compare two marketing strategies: free tasting and
attractive packaging because he aims to increase his daily sales.
5. Mr. Guay is conducting a study to determine the effect of “isolation” in the
development of effective study habits among students
of TNHS.
6. A baker is doing an experiment to come up with soft and fluffy bread.
7. Merly, a newcomer at TNHS, interviewed students to know the names of
her teachers.
8. Mrs. Andrade interviewed the students to find out their post secondary
course preference.
9. The security guard checks the student’s ID every time they enter the school
gate.
10. The Prefect of Discipline analyzes the admission slips of students to find
out the causes of absenteeism and tardiness among TNHS students.

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 YOUR ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY!
Directions: In your own words, define research.

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SUMMARY
Central to research is your way of discovering new knowledge, applying knowledge in
various ways as well as seeing relationships of ideas, events, and situations. Research then puts you
in a context where a problem exists. You have to collect facts or information, study such data, and
come up with a solution to the problem based on the results of your analysis. It is a process requiring
you to work logically, systematically, and collaboratively with others.

Summative Assessment
Directions: MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write the letter of the best answer.

1. An activity or process through which one attempt to systematically and with the
support of data gives an answer to a question, the resolution of a problem or a
greater understanding of a phenomenon.
a. research b. experiment c. investigation
2. A logical supposition, a reasonable guess, an educated conjecture which is never
proved; it is either rejected or accepted.
a. problem b. question c. hypothesis
3. Research makes new contribution to existing knowledge. It implies rearrangement of
existing subject in a new useful form in finding new reasons for earlier
accepted facts.
a. effectiveness b. originality c. quality
4. It is the first requirement of a successful research.
a. thorough understanding b. wide-reading c. evaluating
5. Humans never want to stop thinking and asking questions.
a. curiosity b. rationality c. originality
6. The systematized body of ideas used for the explanation of phenomenon.
a. hypothesis b. science c. theory
7. Which of the following is not considered as a significance of research?
a. Knowledge Production b. Finding Answers c.Human Experience
8. A learning process that motivates you to investigate or ask questions about
something you are inquisitive about.
a. inquiry b. research c. investigate
9. An activity or process through which one attempt to systematically and with the
support of data gives an answer to a question, the resolution of a problem or a
greater understanding of a phenomenon.
a. inquiry b. research c. investigate
10. The context of inquiry and research.
a. problem b. knowledge c. facts

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Key Answers
A.Pre-assessment
1. False- Research does not end.
2. False- Research is important in improving life.
3. True
4. False- Qualitative Research uses words.
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True
B.Possible Answers for Activity 1
Research Inquiry
Process ask
Inquire seek
Collect data inquire
Problem solving look
Science investigate
Seek explore
Look
Inverstigate
Explore
Search again
C.Activity 2
Research
1. Research is a systematic process.
2. Research is collecting ang analyzing data.
3. Research is seeking for possible solutions to a
problem.
4. Research is searching again and again for solutions.
5. Research is a science that explores life circumstances.

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 Inquiry
1. Inquiry uses the art of questioning.
2. Inquiry is seeking for information.
3. Inquiry is looking for facts.
4. Inquiry is investigating.
5. Inquiry is exploring in order to gather information.
D.Activity 3
1. inquiry
2. research
3. inquiry
4. research
5. research
6. research
7. inquiry
8. inquiry
9. inquiry
10. research
E.Summative Test
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. c
8. a
9. b
10. a

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