NATURE OF

INQUIRY AND
RESEARCH

Asking Questions
Presentation / Activity

• Divide yourselves into groups.

• In your group, share your ideas,
experiences and knowledge about
research and explains the importance
of research in daily life.
• Present the importance of research
in daily life in your own innovative
and creative way.
• Each group is given two minutes to
present.
Discussion / Analysis

• How did you find the activity?

• What are the difficulties that you
encountered during the activity?
• What enabled you to accomplish
the task?
• How do research affect our time
or society? (localize
research effect)
• Why are we doing research?
Values
Integration
• Having research
in our daily life,
what value/s will it
develop?
Developmental Activity / Abstraction

Inquiry
It 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 to collect data, meanings, facts
and information about the object of your
inquiry, examine such data carefully.
In your analysis, you execute varied
thinking strategies that range from lower-
order thinking to higher-order thinking
skills such as inferential, critical,
integrative, and creative thinking.
Engaging yourself in many ways of
thinking, you come to conclude that inquiry
is an active learning process. (Baraceros
2016)
 Research
Research is a process of executing various mental
acts for discovering and examining facts and
information to the accuracy and truthfulness of your
claims and conclusions about the topic of your
research. 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 many things you tend to
wonder about the topic
your research work. (Litchman 2013; Baraceros
2016)
Research is analogous to inquiry, in that,
both involve investigation of something
through questioning. However, the
meaning of research is more complicated
than inquiry because it does not center
mainly on raising questions about the
topic, but also on carrying out a particular
order of research stages.
Importance of Research Studies:

Research studies these days are gaining an

unprecedented focus and attention.
Researchable area in any academic
discipline is an area
that has an ample scope to be explored.
Research takes place within most of the
professions of life. What is the importance
of research in practical life to understand?
 Importance of Research Studies

Research is a thinking way under which

researcher examines the various aspects of
daily work critically. It helps in
understanding and formulation of guiding
principles that govern a particular
procedure. Apart from that it also helps in
developing and testing new theories that
are contributing to the advancement of
your practical
life works within a profession.
 7 Reasons Why Research Is
Important
1. A Tool for Building Knowledge and
Efficient Learning
2. Means to Understand Various Issues
3. An Aid to Business Success
4. A Way to Prove Lies and to Support
Truths
5. Means to Find, Gauge, and Seize
Opportunities
6. A Seed to Love Reading, Writing,
Analysing, and Sharing Valuable
Information
Group yourselves accordingly.
• Each group will be given time to
prepare for a presentation.
Group 1: Construct a graphic
organizer differentiating inquiry from
research.
Group 2: Present in a creative way
differentiating inquiry from research.
Group 3: Present a scenario where
research is used to improve one’s
daily life.
You will be rated according this rubric
Evaluation

Directions: Identify the following

items whether true or false. Write
the letter of the correct answer on
the space before the number
comes in your ¼ sheet of paper.
Answer directly.
_____1. Research is the
process of executing various
mental
acts for discovering and
examining facts and
information to prove the
accuracy and truthfulness of
your claims and
conclusions about the topic.
_____2. Inquiry is a learning
process that motivates you
to
obtain knowledge or
information about people,
things, places, or events.

True False
_____3. Research develops
appropriate treatments to
improve individual’s quality
of life.

True False
_____4. Research shapes
people’s understanding of
the world around them.

True False
_____5. Inquiry is a
systematic way of
investigation and study
of materials and sources to
establish facts and reach
new
conclusions.

True False
Key Answers

1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False
 THANK
YOU
Presented by: Lani Rose C. Concepcion