Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Rizal
PANTAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Sitio Pantay, Brgy. Dalig Teresa, Rizal

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Concept Linkers
Old and New Concept Fusion
Activity 1: Vocabulary Improvement

Directions: Based on your stock knowledge and on the words surrounding the middle
word, define the middle word in each cluster.

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Activity 2: Vocabulary Practice

Directions: On the lines provided, construct sentences using the newly learned
words.
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LOOPING OR FREE WRITING

What do you recall about these two words: Inquiry and Research? Write them
freely on the following lines without worrying about your grammar.
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Concept Discovery

What else do you know about Inquiry and Research? Expand what you know
about them by reading the following text.

INQUIRY vs. RESEARCH: A REVIEW

Nature of Inquiry and Research
One goal of education is knowledge acquisition. However, education is not
just stocking your brain with knowledge, but it also encourages you to use acquired
knowledge for a deeper understanding of the world—an understanding that inspires
you to create, construct, or produce things for the betterment of not only your own
life, but of the whole world as well. How is this possible?
Inquiry, a term that is synonymous with the word ‘investigation,’ is the answer
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to this question. When you inquire or investigate, you tend to ask questions to probe
or examine something. You do this kind of examination through your HOTS or
higher-order thinking strategies of inferential, analytical, critical, creative, and
appreciative thinking to discover more understandable or meaningful things beyond
such object of your inquiry. Thinking in this manner makes you ask open-ended
questions to elicit views, opinions, and beliefs of others in relation to your research.
(Small 2012)
Characteristics of Research
Research is a scientific, experimental, or inductive manner of thinking. Starting from
particular to more complex ideas, you execute varied thinking acts that range from
lower-order to higher-order thinking strategies reflected by these research activities:
identifying the topic or problem, gathering data, making theories, formulating
hypotheses, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. Cognitively driven terms like
empirical, logical, cyclical, analytical, critical, methodical, and replicable are the right
descriptive words to characterize research. These powerful modifiers that your
previous research subject, Practical Research 1, explained to a certain extent, are
the very same terms to characterize any quantitative research you intend to carry out
this time.
The data you work on in research do not come mainly from yourself but also
from other sources of knowledge like people, books, and artworks, among others.
Hence, one cardinal principle in research is to give acknowledgment to owners of all
sources of knowledge involved in your research work. Giving credit to people from
whom you derived your data is your way of not only thanking the authors of their
contribution to the field, but also establishing the validity and reliability of the findings
of your research that ought to serve as instrument for world progress. (Muijs 2011;
Ransome 2012)
Methods of Research
To be a researcher is to be a scientist, who must think logically or
systematically; that is, your research activities must follow a certain order, like doing
inductive thinking that makes you ponder on specific ideas first, then move to more
complex concepts like conclusions or generalizations. Or, do the opposite of
inductive thinking which is deductive thinking that lets you start from forming
generalizations to examining details about the subject matter. These are not the only
approaches, though, that you can adhere to in planning your research work.
Depending on your topic and purpose, you are free to choose from several
approaches, methods, and types of research you learned in your previous research
subject, Practical Research 1. (Gray 2011; Sharp 2012)
Inquiry vis-à-vis Research
One scholarly activity that greatly involves inquiry is research. Similar to
inquiry that starts from what you are ignorant about, research makes you learn
something by means of a problem-solving technique. Both inquiry and research
encourage you to formulate questions to direct you to the exact information you want
to discover about the object of your curiosity. Your questions operate like a scrutiny
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of a person’s attire to find out what are hidden between or among the compartments
or folded parts of his/her clothes. Although the core word for both inquiry and
research is investigation or questioning, they are not exactly the same in all aspects.
Research includes more complex acts of investigation than inquiry because the
former follows a scientific procedure of discovering truths or meanings about things
in this world. (Goodwin 2014; Lapan 2012).

Concept Explanation
Comprehension Check

Directions: Explain your understanding of inquiry and research by answering the

following questions.

1. Compare and contrast Inquiry and Research.

2. Which is easier to carry out: Inquiry or Research? Give reasons for your answer.
3. How can a researcher be a scientist?
4. What if you do things randomly in research, what will be the consequences?
5. Should you immediately concern yourself with data analysis prior to research
approach? Why? Why not?
6. Could Inquiry and Research go together? Explain your point.
7. What do you think of this line: Inquiry occurs completely with excessive familiarity
with the physical looks of an object?
8. Do these two words, Inquiry and Research, somehow indicate strength of
character?
9. Have you had an application of Inquiry and Research in your day-to-day life?
Explain.
10. Name some institutions or organizations that often engage themselves in inquiry
and research. Describe their ways of doing it.

Concept Elaboration
Directions: GROUP WORK. Form a group of three and do any of these group
activities.
1. Speculative thinking. Prove how inquisitive you are by raising investigative
questions about these topics: 21st Century Educational Strategies, Era of
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Globalization, Social Networking, Climate Change, Digital Age, Sustainable

Community, Carcinogenic Foods, Email vs. Postal Mail, Stem-Cell Therapy,
Proliferation of Dermatological Clinics, and Food Supplements. Classify your
questions into lower-level and top-level questions.
2. Determine whether Inquiry or Research is applicable to the given situations.
Check the corresponding column of your answer.

Concept-Learning Assessment
Directions: Use percentage grade (50% to 100%) to indicate the extent of your
learning
about each of the following topics:
1. Differences and similarities between Inquiry and Research

2. Behavior of people practicing Inquiry and Research

3. Reasons behind people’s inquisitive attitudes

4. Research as an inductive thinking

5. Lower-order and higher-order thinking strategies