[11] PR1 - Nature of Inquiry and Research

Cards (11)

  • Rummaging - to make a thorough search
  • Cohesive - exhibiting or producing cohesion
  • Graphics - a picture, drawing, image used as a decoration
  • Mind Map - diagram used to organize information usually
  • Innovation - act or process of introducing new ideas or methods
  • Inquiry - seeking for truth, information or knowledge; synonymous with word investigation
  • Research derived etymologically from:
    • Re - again, a new or over again
    • Search - examine closely and carefully, to test and try, or to probe
  • Research - careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to establish facts or principles; systematic inquiry that entails the collection of data following suitable methodologies; applies systematic or scientific methods
  • Research is to produce knowledge through inquiry and discovery
  • Purpose of Research
    1. To inform action
    2. To prove or generate a theory
    3. To augment knowledge in a field or study
  • Importance of Research in Daily Life
    • Describes what is happening around us
    • Explains why things happen in certain ways
    • Predicts what will happen
    • Helps us solve problems
    • Evaluates what happened in our lives