PRACTICAL

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Quarter 3

LEARNER’S MATERIAL
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PR 1 Grade 11
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PIVOT IV-A Learner’s Material
Quarter 1 Module 2 WEEK
First Edition, 2020
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GRADE 11
PR 1
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1

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 What I need to know?
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In this lesson, you will learn how to :
• Differentiate qualitative from quantitative research
• Provides examples of research in areas of research
• Describes characteristics, strengths, weaknesses and kinds of qualitative research
• Illustrates the importance of qualitative research across fields

For the Parent/Guardian

This module was collaborately designed , developed and reviewed by
evaluations both public and private institutions to assist you, the
teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set
the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social,
and economic constraints in schooling.
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This learning resource hopes to engage the learners in guided
and independent learning activities at their own pace and time.
Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed
21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and
circumstances.
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how
to use this module. You are expected to orient the learners on how
to use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners’s
progress while allowing them to manage their own learning. Fur-
thermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as
they do the tasks included in the module.

NOTE: For the Learner

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace
and time. You will have to process the contents of the learning resource
while being an active learner.

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 I What is new?

What did you remember in the last week lessons?

What I knew What I learn What I am going to learn

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This week lesson will focus on the difference between two major types of
Research, given examples of these research, and state the characteris-
tics, strengths and weaknesses . (All answers will be written in your INFOR-
MATION NOTEBOOK)
With the guidance of your parents/guardians, give your ideas/concepts on
the two topics in table below.
Using the Semantic Web, give the strengths and weaknesses of the 2 key
concepts in the table.

Qualitative Research Quantitative Research

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

WEAKNESSES STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES STRENGTHS

1. 1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2. 2.

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D What I know?

Research is essential and necessary in daily life. Making re-

search as a system in ones life will lead to be organize and
harmonious community and society.

Guessing Game:
_____________1. It is a way of learning, concern itself with these elements:
changing knowledge, creativity, subjectivity, socio-cultural factors, sensory
experience and higher order thinking strategies.
_____________2. It is a process of executing various mental acts for discov-
ering and examining facts and information to prove the accuracy or truth-
fulness of claims or conclusions.
______________3. It is a research type that puts premium or high value on
people’s thinking or point of view conditioned by their personal traits.
4. What are the characteristics of research?
1.
2.
3,
4.
5.
5. List down the words that can operate as variables in any research study.
Choose the words from the choices in the box.

Reading comprehension Life Plans Physical exercise

Economic status Skills Voice
Experience Class size Mental pictures
Aspirations Dreams Textbook
Water Guardian Angels

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 D What is in?

Why do we need to know the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in re-
search?
How do we produce quality and accurate information that would
improve our life?

Sources of research topics

1. Work Experience 6. Books, internet, peer-reviewed journals

2. General periodical ex. Gazette, newsletter

3. Professional periodical ex. Teacher’s Journal, Housekeeping

4. Previous reading assignments in your subjects

5. Mass Media communication press

What do you think are the guidelines in choosing a research topic? _________________

These are the guidelines in choosing a research topic:

1. Personal resources
Ex. Knowledge of the customers’ in the bakery due to your work in the bakery
2. Interest in the Subject Matter
Ex. Interest in electrical installation
3. Availability of information
Ex. Knowledge about bookkeeping because your relatives are businessmen
4. Timeliness and Relevance of the topic
Ex. Health protocol (handwashing, Face mask, Face Shield, and Social Distancing) during
this pandemic.
5. Limitations of the subject
Ex. Senior citizens in Barangay San Juan who stayed a home during pandemic
Task # 1. Construction a research topic
Make 2 research topics of your choice related to your track and strand.

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2.
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Why do we need to know the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in re-
search?
How do we produce quality and accurate information that would im-
prove our life?
What do you think are to be avoided in choosing a research topic? _________________
These are to be avoided in selecting a research topic:
1. Controversial topics ex. Corruption, Same sex relationship
2. Vaque subjects ex. Immorality
3. Too narrow subjects ex Teenagers health Issue
4. Controversial topics ex. Actress life style
5. Highly technical subjects ex . Medical frontliners health condition
6. Hard-to– investigate subjects—ex. Witchcraft practices

Task # 2. Construction a research topic

Make 5 research topics of your choice related to your track and strand.

1.

2.

3.

5.

Explain why they researchable topics? Use the guidelines in explaining your defense/explanations.

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Why do we need to know the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in re-
search?
How do we produce quality and accurate information that would im-
prove our life?
What are the benefits of research?

Purposes of Research
1. To learn how to work independently
2. To learn how to work scientifically or systematically.
3. To have a deeper knowledge of something
4. To increase your mental abilities by letting you think in higher-order thinking strategies (HOTS)
of inferring, evaluating, synthesizing, appreciating, applying, and creating.
5. To improve reading and writing skills
6. To familiarize with the basic tools of research and various techniques of gathering data and pre-
senting research findings
7. To free from domination or strong influence of a single textbook to a certain extent.

Task # 3. Expressing one’s logical and critical thinking

1. Cite one (1) situation in your life as a student, when you make a research and apply these re-
search purposes. Explain.

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 D What is it?

Research is a process of executing various mental acts for discovering and examining facts and
information to prove the accuracy or truthfulness of claims or conclusion. It requires to work logical-
ly or systematically and collaboratively with others.
There are two major type of Research
1. Qualitative Research– is a research type that puts premium or high value on people’s thinking
or point of view conditioned by their personal traits.
2. Quantitative Research - systematic investigation of phenomena by gathering quantifiable data
and performing statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques. It collects information
from existing and potential customers using sampling methods and sending out online surveys,
online polls, questionnaires, etc., the results of which can be depicted in the form of numerical.
After careful understanding of these numbers to predict the future of a product or service and
make changes accordingly.
A topic is researchable if the knowledge and information about it are supported by evidence that
is observable, factual and logical.
Qualitative variables aren’t ordered on a numerical scale in statistics so they are assigned nominal
scales. The word “nominal” means “name”, which is exactly what qualitative variables are. A nomi-
nal scale is a scale where no ordering is possible or implied. It describes data that fits into catego-
ries. For example:
Eye colors (variables include: blue, green, brown, hazel).
States (variables include: Florida, New Jersey, Washington).
Dog breeds (variables include: Alaskan Malamute, German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, Shih tzu).
There are various types of research.
1. Based on Application of Research method
2. Based on purpose
• Descriptive
• Correlational
• Exploratory
• Action
3. Based on data needed
• Primary
• Secondary

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 D What is it?

Task # 5. Identify the various types of research. Write the LETTER of the correct answer.

A. Based on Application of Research method

B. Based on purpose

C. Descriptive

D. Correlational

E. Exploratory

F. Action

G. Based on data needed

H. Primary data

I. Secondary data

________1. The topic is being investigated from the written record of the secondary researchers.
_________2. The researcher interviewed the principal chef of the famous restaurant.
_________3. The researcher stayed for one year in the Dumagat tribes in Tanay.
_________4. The researcher narrated the life of the Bibingka makers in Brgy. San Roque, Cainta.
_________5. HUMSS students made a study of the causes of students’ drop out in Senior High
Schools in Rizal.
_________6. The Automotive students studied the Personal Protective Equipment effects on the
installation of automotive machinery.
_________7. The Senior High School students compared the effects of positive reinforcement
and the positive discipline to TVL students in public Senior High School.
__________8. The teacher made a study on the use of GC as form of sending assignments to
students.
Task # 6. Essay

Write 10 sentences expressing your opinions in choosing a research

type before the actual research proposal.

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 D What is it?

Qualitative Research has several characteristics. These are the following:

 Human understanding and interpretation
 Active, powerful and forceful
 Multiple research approaches and methods
 Specificity to generalization
 Contextualization
 Diversified data in real-life situation
 Abounds with words and visuals
 Internal Analysis

There are types of Qualitative Research

 Case Study- tries to bring together all aspects and information about the unit under study, con-
tributing to explaining or describing something. This could be a country or a company.
 Ethnography- is one that allows the researcher to embed himself or herself in the natural set-
ting of the subject he or she tries to study
 Phenomenology- studies phenomena, or manifestations of things. It studies a particular phe-
nomenon, in its many angles and facets, adding to knowledge about the phenomenon.
 Content Discourse Analysis- provides for a close reading of such articles. It allows the exami-
nation of how words, figures, pictures, and texts deliver meaning, and offer explications of cul-
tures. Content analysis yields codes and categories, upon being subject to rigorous analysis.
 Historical Analysis- enables to explore and explain the meanings, phases and characteristics
of a phenomenon or process at a particular point of time in the past.
 Grounded Theory- makes use of the research data to the tee. Instead of drawing on theory at
the beginning of the research, this approach derives theory from the data collected through re-
search. The theory is grounded in the data. For instance, your data would allow you to code and
classify it, leading to the development of theory.

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 D What is it?

Task # 7. In 2 or more words, give your own concepts related to the given Qualitative Research
characteristics.

CHARACTERISTICS RELATED CONCEPTS

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

Task # 8 : Look for examples (titles) of the following types of qualitative research. Give 2 samples
of every type of Qualitattive research. (Research work-internet, textbook or other sources)
TYPES OF QUALITATTIVE RESEARCH SAMPLES/TITLES
1. Case Study 1.

2.

2. Ethnography 1.

2.
3. Phenomenology 1.

2.
4. Content Discourse Analysis 1.

2.
5. Historical Analysis 1.

2.
6. Grounded Theory 1.

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 D What is it?

Qualitative research in different areas of knowledge:

The scientific approach gives stress to measurable and observable facts instead of personal
views, feelings or attitudes. It can be used in researches under the hard sciences or STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine) and natural sciences (biology, Physics, Chemistry).
Considered as soft sciences are Anthropology, Economics, Laws, Politics, and all subjects aligned
with business and all those focused on helping professions such as Nursing, Counselling, Physical
Therapy and the like.
Qualitative Research has its strengths or advantages: These are the following:
 It adopts a naturalistic approach to its subject matter, which means that those involve in the re-
search understand things based on what they find meaningful.
 It promotes a full understanding of human behavior or personality traits in their natural setting.
 It is instrumental for positive societal changes.
 It engenders respect for people’s individuality as it demands the researcher’s careful and atten-
tive stand toward people’s world views.
 It is a way of understanding and interpreting social interactions.
 It increases the researcher’s interest in the study as it includes the researcher’s experience or back-
ground knowledge in interpreting verbal and visual data.
 It offers multiple ways of acquiring and examining knowledge about something.
TASK # 9: Identify the hard and soft sciences that utilize in the Qualitative research.

SOFT SCIENCES HARD SCIENCES

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 D What is it?

Qualitative Research has its weaknesses or disadvantages: These are the following:
 It involves a lot of researcher’s subjectivity in data analysis
 It is hard to know the validity or reliability of the data
 Its open-ended questions yield “data overload” that requires a long-time analysis.
 It is time consuming
 It involves several processes, which results greatly depend on the researcher’s views or inter-
pretations.
Task # 10: Compare/Contrast
Enumerate the strengths and weaknesses of Qualitative research.

STRENGTHS/ADVANTAGES WEAKNESSES/DIADVANAYAGES

Express your observation about the comparison and give your position/stand
about what you have observed.

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 E What is more?

Task # 11: Think and Write

1. What are the difference between qualitative research from quantita-
tive research? You may use the Venn diagram for your answer.

Task # 12: Finding the difference

List down those that are NOT considered characteristics of Qualitative research.

Weak, powerless Specificity to generalization Technical understanding

Contextualization Abounds with words and visual Globalization

External Analysis Diversified data in real-life situations Human understanding

Minimal research approaches and methods Forceful

Task #13 : Identification

Write QL if it Qualitative Research and QN if it Quantitative Research.
______1. Content and Discourse Analysis _______ 6. Experimental
______2. Ethnography _______7. Grounded Theory
______3. Descriptive _______8. Correlational
______4. Case Study ________9. Phenomenology
______5. Quasi-experimental ________10. Historical Analysis

Task # 14 Source searching

Where can you look for the information/data for the topic studied? Check ( / )if it a good source,
cross (x) if it is not.
________A. General Periodical _________F. Professional periodicals
________B. Tabloid ________ G. Internet
________C. Rumors ________ H. Books
________D. Work Experience ________ I. Menu
________E. Professional Periodicals ________ J. Journals

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 E What I can do?

Task # 15: Modified Yes or No

Write YES if it is researchable topic, NO if it is not researchable topic on the

space provided and explain why it is Yes or No.
__________1. Extra marital practices of men and women in the Philippines
Explanation:
________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
__________2. Rumors among female actresses in the Philippines
Explanation:
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
__________3, ICT students use of html language in creating web page.
Explanation:
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Task #16: Construct 5 statements as your qualitative research topic .

Topics:
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5.

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 E What else can I do?

Task # 17 Research across discipline

State 2 topics that can be researchable for the following disciplines.

DISCIPLINES RESEARCHABLE TOPICS

Science (STEM) 1.

2.

Technology( TVL) 1.

2.

Education(HUMSS) 1.

2.
Business (ABM) 1.

2.

Laws ( GAS) 1.

2.

From the topics above, choose one (1) and write the problem found in the
topic that affects daily life of man. Explain logically.

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 A What I have learned?

Task # 18: List 5 things learned this week.

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4.
5.
Task #19: Plan of Action
(If encounter a problem in my life, what should be done?)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

A What I can achieve?

Task #20: Evaluation

1-5 Characteristics of Qualitative research
6– 8 Types of research based on purpose
9– 13 Types of Qualitative research
14-18 Strengths/Advantages of research
19-20. What should be avoided in choosing a research topic.

Task #21: Express feelings/emotions on the following topics learned and ex-
plain that feelings and emotions:

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 Answer

Task #1 Answers vary

Task # 2 Answers vary
Task # 3 Answers vary
Task # 4 Answers vary
Task # 5
1. I 2. H 3. E 4. C 5. F 6. A 7. D 8. B
Task # 6 Answers vary
Task # 7 Answers vary
Task # 8 Answers vary
Task # 9
Soft Disciplines Hard Disciplines

Anthropolgy, Business, Economics Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine

Task # 10
Strengths/Advantages
1. It adopts a naturalistic approach to its subject matter, which means that those involve
in the research understand things based on what they find meaningful.

2. It promotes a full understanding of human behavior or personality traits in their natu-

ral setting.
3. It is instrumental for positive societal changes.

4. It engenders respect for people’s individuality as it demands the researcher’s careful

and attentive stand toward people’s world views.

5. It is a way of understanding and interpreting social interactions.

6. It increases the researcher’s interest in the study as it includes the researcher’s expe-
rience or background knowledge in interpreting verbal and visual data.

7. It offers multiple ways of acquiring and examining knowledge about something.

Weaknesses/Disadvantages
1. It involves a lot of researcher’s subjectivity in data analysis
2. It is hard to know the validity or reliability of the data

3. Its open-ended questions yield “data overload” that requires a long-time analysis.

4. It is time consuming

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 Answer

Task # 11

Qualitative Research Quantitative Research

is a research type that puts premium systematic investigation of phenomena by gathering quantifia-
or high value on people’s thinking or ble data and performing statistical, mathematical, or computa-
point of view conditioned by their tional techniques. It collects information from existing and
personal traits. potential customers using sampling methods and sending out
online surveys, online polls, questionnaires, etc., the results of
which can be depicted in the form of numerical. After careful
understanding of these numbers to predict the future of a
product or service and make changes accordingly.

Task # 12
 Weak and powerless
 External analysis
 Minimal research approach
 Technical understanding
 Globalization
Task # 13
1. QL 2. QL 3. QN 4.QL 5. QN 6. QN 7.QL 8.QN 9.QL 10.QL
Task # 14
A. / B.X C.X D./ E./ F./ G. / H. / I. X J. /
Task # 15
1. NO– Explanations vary 2. NO-Explanations vary
3.YES– explanations vary
Task # 16 Answers vary
Task # 17 Answers vary
Task # 18 Answers vary
Task # 19 Answers vary

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 Answer

Task # 20
1-5 Characteristics of Qualitative research
1.Human understanding and interpretation
2.Active, powerful and forceful
3. Multiple research approaches and methods
4.Specificity to generalization
5. Contextualization
6– 8 Types of research based on purpose
6. Descriptive
7. Correlational
8. Exploratory
9– 13 Types of Qualitative research
9. Case Study
10. Ethnography
11. Phenomenology
12. Content Discourse Analysis
13. Historical Analysis
14-18 Strengths/Advantages of research
14. It adopts a naturalistic approach to its subject matter, which means that
those involve in the research understand things based on what they find mean-
ingful.
15. It promotes a full understanding of human behavior or personality traits in
their natural setting.
16. It is instrumental for positive societal changes.
17. It engenders respect for people’s individuality as it demands the researcher’s
careful and attentive stand toward people’s world views.

18. It is a way of understanding and interpreting social interactions.

19-20. What should be avoided in choosing a research topic.

19. Controversial topics 20. Hard to investigate subjects
Task # 21 Answers vary

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