PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

• Accuracy:

  • Research must provide correct or accurate data
  • Footnotes, notes, and bibliographical entries should honestly and appropriately document or acknowledge the sources
• Objectiveness:

  • Research should deal with facts, not opinions based on assumptions, generalizations, predictions, or conclusions
• Timeliness:

  • Research should focus on fresh, new, and interesting topics relevant to present society
• Relevance:

  • Research topics should be instrumental in improving society or solving community problems
• Clarity:

  • Research should express its central point or discoveries using simple, direct, concise, and correct language
• Systematic:

  • Research should be conducted in an organized or orderly manner
• Purposes of Research:

  • To learn how to work independently
  • To learn how to work scientifically or systematically
  • To have an in-depth knowledge of something
  • To elevate your mental abilities by letting you think in higher-order thinking strategies (HOTS) of inferring, evaluating, synthesizing, appreciating, applying, and creating
  • To improve your reading and writing skills
  • To be familiar with the basic tools of research and the various techniques of gathering data and of presenting research findings
• Descriptive Research:

  • Aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal of a person, thing, event, group, situation, etc.
  • Relates itself only to a certain period or a limited number of years
  • Results of descriptive studies can lead to further research on the topic
• Correlational Research:

  • Shows relationships or connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables
  • Indicates the existence of a relationship, not the causes and ways of its development
• Explanatory Research:

  • Elaborates on the reasons behind the relationship of two factors
  • Explains the ways in which such relationship exists
• Exploratory Research:

  • Aims to find out how reasonable or possible it is to conduct a research study on a certain topic
  • Helps discover ideas on topics that could trigger interest in conducting research studies
• Action Research:

  • Studies an ongoing practice of a school, organization, community, or institution
  • Aims to obtain results that will bring improvements in the system
• Descriptive Research:

  • Aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal of a person, thing, event, group, situation, etc.
  • Relates itself only to a certain period or a limited number of years
  • Results of descriptive studies can lead to further studies on the same topic
• Correlational Research:

  • Shows relationships or connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables
  • Indicates the existence of a relationship, not the causes and ways of its development
• Explanatory Research:

  • Elaborates or explains the reasons behind the relationship of two factors
  • Explores the ways in which such relationship exists
• Exploratory Research:

  • Aims to find out how reasonable or possible it is to conduct a research study on a certain topic
  • Helps discover ideas on topics that could trigger interest in conducting research studies
• Action Research:

  • Studies an ongoing practice of a school, organization, community, or institution
  • Aims to obtain results that will bring improvements in the system
• Qualitative research requires non-numerical data
• Qualitative research uses words rather than numbers to express results, inquiries, or investigations about people's thoughts, beliefs, feelings, views, and lifestyles regarding the object of the study
• Opinionated answers from people in qualitative research are not measurable, so verbal language is the right way to express findings
• Quantitative research involves the measurement of data
• Quantitative research presents research findings referring to the number or frequency of something in numerical forms
• Quantitative research uses percentages, fractions, and numbers to express data