CAPSTONE | LECTURE 01

• EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE

  • SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
  • DISCOVERY BASED INVESTIGATION
• SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

  • Is an objective, logical, and repeatable attempt to understand the principle forces operating the natural universe.
• CAPSTONE RESEARCH PROJECT

  • Is designed for Senior High School students to conduct experiments that will draw their experiences together to answer a research question or problem.
• DISCOVERY BASED INVESTIGATION

  • It Is also called a non-inquiry investigation for it relies on verifiable observations and measurements.
• DISCOVERY BASED INVESTIGATION

  • It involves methods to observe a structure or a phenomenon; to record, analyze, and interpret the data obtained; and to generate detailed descriptions.
• DEMONSTRATION

  • It explains a scientific principle of why or how something works through models, illustrations, or visual animations. This does not require hypothesis testing. However, you must carry out testing or trials to demonstrate that a given specific principle actually works.
• COLLECTION

  • It is a group of naturally occurring specimens or samples, gathered to show their scientific hierarchy or relationship. It must demonstrate a newly discovered information that would contribute to an existing scientific knowledge.
• HYPOTHESIS BASED INVESTIGATION

  • When you conduct an experiment, you start to perform an inquiry-based investigation. It requires one to propose and test a hypothesis; hence, it is also called hypothesis-based investigation.
• HYPOTHESIS BASED INVESTIGATION

  It involves the use of the scientific method anchored on a well-defined procedure designed to answer a researchable question.
• HYPOTHESIS BASED INVESTIGATION

  • In an inquiry-based investigation, students conduct science investigatory projects. It aims to establish or characteristics about a given group.
• HYPOTHESIS BASED INVESTIGATION

  • To do this, certain characteristics need to be determined, defined, and compared to another population by making observation or measurements on variables.
• HYPOTHESIS BASED INVESTIGATION

  • VARIABLE - A variable is a test subject's characteristics that can change (or is allowed to change).
• STESPS

  1. PROBLEM
  2. HYPOTHESIS
  3. PROCEDURE
  4. RESULTS
  5. CONCLUSION
• SCIENCETIFIC INVESTIGATORY PROJECTS

  • Scientific investigatory projects may also aim to apply a treatment on a test subject in a controlled way and to collect data in response to the experimental conditions.
• SCIENCETIFIC INVESTIGATORY PROJECTS

  • To have a valid conclusion, it is important to make comparisons among the test subjects, which have either received a treatment but in different degree/levels (experimental group), or did not receive the treatment at all (control group).
• BASIC RESEARCH - THEORETICAL | FOR THE EXPANSION OF KNOWLEDGE
• APPLIED RESEARCH - PRACTICAL | FOR THE BETTERMENT OF LIFE'S QUALITY
• BASIC RESEARCH

  • Genetic diversity
  • Ecological patterns
  • Biodiversity studies
  • Host-parasite interactions
  • Characterization of organisms
• APPLIED RESEARCH

  • Alternative energy sources
  • Low-cost instrumentation
  • Development of diagnostic kits
  • Identification of antibacterials
  • Biomaterials characterization
• BASIC RESEARCH

  • Genetic diversity
• BASIC RESEARCH

  Ecological patterns
• BASIC RESEARCH

  • Biodiversity studies
• BASIC RESEARCH

  Host-parasite interactions
• BASIC RESEARCH

  • Characterization of organisms
• APPLIED RESEARCH

  • Alternative energy sources
• APPLIED RESEARCH

  • Low-cost instrumentation
• APPLIED RESEARCH

  • Development of diagnostic kits
• APPLIED RESEARCH

  • Identification of antibacterials
• APPLIED RESEARCH

  • Biomaterials characterization
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  It should contributes to an existing knowledge in science.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  • It has to exhibit originality.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  • It should follow the process of a research.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  • It must look into available scientific sources of information.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  • Its design must be logical and rational.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  • Its results and conclusions must be verifiable and repeated by others.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  • It should address a real-world problem or issue.
• QUALITIES OF AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

  1. It should contributes to an existing knowledge in science.
  2. It has to exhibit originality.
  3. It should follow the process of a research.
  4. It must look into available scientific sources of information.
  5. Its design must be logical and rational.
  6. Its results and conclusions must be verifiable and repeated by others.
  7. It should address a real-world problem or issue.