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Chapter 1 - Nature of Inquiry and Research
Chapter 1 - Nature of Inquiry and Research
INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
MS. JENIEFER C. ESPINO
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
• ETYMOLOGY:
– “research” was coined from French word “cerhier”
which means “seek”
RESEARCH
• a natural day-to-day activity of gathering information
– QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
• seeks to answer questions about why and how people behave in the
way that they do. It provides in-depth information about human
behaviour.
– QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
• is “explaining phenomena by collecting numerical data that are
analysed using mathematically based methods (in particular
statistics).”
Comprehension Check
Determine whether INQUIRY or RESEARCH is applicable to the given
situations.
1. A person wants to know the occupant of one condominium.
2. A student wants to know the medicinal effects of guava leaves.
3. Mr. Cruz wants to know the technique to make his electric fan
function instantly.
4. Aling Rosa wants to know the reason behind the decrease of her
sales for the day.
5. Prof. Gomez wants to discover the impact of social networking on
his students’ learning abilities.
LESSON I.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH –
CHARACTERISTICS, STRENGTH,
WEAKNESSES and KINDS
DEFINITION OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative research
• an objective, systematic empirical investigation of
observable phenomena through the use of
computational techniques
• concerned with numbers and its relationship with events
• suggests that the data concerned can be analyzed in
terms of numbers
CHARACTERISTICS OF
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
• Seeks accurate measurement
Objective and analysis of target concepts
• conducted by researchers to
find out the direction,
associations and/or relationship
between different variables or
groups of respondents under
study
KINDS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN
1 2 3 4
Teaching Accounting Science Humanities
Profession Technology
Business Social
Management Engineering
Mathematics Sciences
VARIABLES IN RESEARCH
• “cause variable”
Independent • responsible for the
Variables conditions that bring changes
Categories
measurement has a clear
where the definition of zero,
difference between indication that there
two variables does Interval Ratio is none of that
have meaning variable
TYPES OF VARIABLES
Categories
can have two or
has two or more
more categories but
variables that can
with no
quantitative value
Nominal Ordinal be ranked
KINDS OF VARIABLES
• “meddling variable”
Extraneous • “stand between” the independent
and dependent variables
Variables • Also called intervening variables