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Nature of Inquiry and research
Nature of Inquiry
- Obtain knowledge or information about people, things, places or events
- Learning process
- Carried out via investigating or asking questions
- Use a combination of lower-order and higher-order thinking
• Inferential, critical, integrative, creative etc
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Research
- Both involves investigation through questioning
- Research is more complex because you don’t simply ask questions
- Research
• Collect and study data, make analyses and come up with conclusion and or
solutions
Purposes of Research
- To learn how to work independently
- To learn how to work scientifically or systematically
- To have in-depth knowledge of something
- To elevate your mental abilities by letting you think in higher-order thinking strategies
- To improve your reading and writing skills
- To be familiar with the basic tools of research and various techniques of gathering data
and of presenting research findings
- To free yourself from the bias of a textbook or a higher authority
Importance of Research
- To provide information
- To provide comparisons
- To help discern relationships
- To estimate unknown quantities
- To predict future outcomes
- To aid in decision making and justify claims and assertions

Characteristics of Research
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Objectiveness
Deal with facts, not from mere opinions
Arguments should not be declared as opinions
Analysis must be done

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Relevance
- Relevant in improving daily lives or human experience
- Provide solutions to problems
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Systematic
- Research should have a good structure
- Each part of the research process must be done in an orderly manner



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