Applied Practical Research 1 - q1 - Mod3 v2
Applied Practical Research 1 - q1 - Mod3 v2
Applied Practical Research 1 - q1 - Mod3 v2
Quarter 1 - Module 3:
Identifying the Inquiry and Stating the
Problem Related to Daily Life
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What I Need to Know
People from all walks of life are bombarded with problems and challenged with obstacles
that are to be conquered every day. Some solutions to these problems are within ordinary man’s
capacity of doing. However, some, need further investigation and exploration as they are too
technical to be accomplished in a wink of an eye.
One of the main foci of qualitative research is to be of help to humans in their everyday
undertaking. It seeks to improve the lives of the people and for them to become competitive in the
mainstream.
The unique feature of qualitative research is it does not test hypothesis; rather, it only
poses a problem or question that are to be explored through case study, ethnography,
phenomenological approach, and others. To satisfy the problem posed, data are gathered
through interview, observation, focus group discussion and the like.
In designing your own research project and your research title, have in mind what
particular aspect of your existence you will focus on. Further, you have to keep an eye on the
reason behind conducting the research study.
In order to accomplish the desired performance stated, please be guided with the following
learning competencies as your anchor:
Learning Objectives:
8. This is a statement containing the main point, main idea or central message of the paper.
A. Conceptual framework
B. Significance of the study
C. Thesis statement
D. Statement of the problem
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9. It contains the explanation of what information or subject is being analyzed following the
limitation of the study.
A. Research design
B. Scope of the study
C. Research title
D. Thesis statement
10. This is where the purpose of the study is highlighted indicating the key reasons of doing
such.
A. Significance of the study
B. Research objectives
C. Scope of the study
D. Rationale
11. One of the components of a research question that provides enough specifics that one’s
audience can easily understand its purpose without needing additional explanation.
A. Complex
B. Clear
C. Arguable
D. Brief
13. This is the chapter where the significance of the study is particularly indicated.
A. Chapter 1
B. Chapter 2
C. Chapter 3
D. Chapter 4
14. This is one of the components of a research objective which is expressed in the fewest
possible words.
A. Complex
B. Concise
C. Goal-driven
D. Clear
15. You cannot formulate questions unless you have already identified your:
A. references.
B. research topic.
C. research design.
D. audience.
What’s In
● Your knowledge about the kinds of qualitative research and the fields where they are
of significance are preparatory to our next lesson.
What’s New
Directions: From among the list, choose what you want to build, accomplish, create or make.
Then determine the materials that you need in order to accomplish it.
List of choices:
House Cake
Car Dress
Bag others, please specify
What Is It
Designing a research is similar to making a house, car, bag, dress, cake, etc. which needs
appropriate materials and necessary process or steps to follow. Then, you have to consider
whether what you intend to make or invent has significance to you as a person. Otherwise, your
efforts will not be put to use.
Therefore, the first question you should answer is, “What is the issue, phenomenon or
problem in my school, at home, and in the community that needs my special attention by
conducting a research?”
Examples:
1. In School
Based on observation, what are the issues and problems I encounter inside
the classroom? Is it the lesson, teachers, learners’ attitude and hindrances to
graduation?
2. At Home
Considering my life on a daily basis, what are the things that bother me at
home?
3. In the Community
What are the usual complaints of my neighbor regarding ordinances,
practices and activities in the barangay? Or, what are the situations in my
community that need to be improved?
Once you have decided on area where you can focus on, you need to remember
the design of the qualitative research you will venture into.
Qualitative research is an emergent design which means that it emerges as you make
ongoing decisions about what you have learned.
To have a holistic picture of qualitative research project, you have to remember that in
deciding on a topic, you have to consider the kind and the field it belongs, as well as its relevance
to your daily life.
What’s More
Directions: Determine whether the topic listed below are directly relevant to you. Mark (/) if
they are, and (X) if not, on the blank provided before the number.
What I Can Do
Directions: Cite at least two issues, concerns or problems that you have encountered in the
different domains. Then, choose one which interests you the most as your focus for
your research project.
b. At home
1. __________
2. __________
c. In the community
1. __________
2. __________
● Relevance of the research project to you can be determined by considering the different
domains of your experiences like home, school and community.
● Alongside its relevance to daily life, the kind of qualitative research you will focus and the
specific field it belongs must be considered as well.
What’s New
Reduce Me!
Directions: Reduce the following general term to its specific equivalent. The purpose of this activity
is to show you how a certain portion/piece of something can be taken out from the
whole or group it belongs. The first one, as an example, is done for you.
Whole Portion/Piece
1. A layer of Cake Slice of cake
2. A Case of soda
3. One section of students
4. Bunch of bananas
5. 1 sack of rice
What is It
The activity you have just accomplished is similar to the process you will undergo in
choosing a research topic and eventually in formulating your research title. You have to start from
general view of the subject and proceed to its specific spectrum.
To do it, you will learn how to determine your research topic as we discuss the Guidelines
in Choosing a Topic, Topics to be Avoided, Sources of Research Topics, Examples of Research
Topics and their Sources, and How to Narrow Down a Research Topic.
2. Availability of information
It is important that when you decide on a topic, sources of information are available.
5. Personal resources
Consider also if you can finish the research in terms of your intellectual and financial
physical capabilities.
Topics to be Avoided
1. Controversial topics
Avoid highly opinionated topics.
3. Hard-to-investigate subjects
Unavailability of reading materials and materials that are not updated make the subject
hard to investigate.
4. Too broad subjects
You lack focus if you deal with broad topics. The remedy is to narrow it down.
5. Too narrow subject
Some subjects are too narrow that extensive and thorough reading are required.
6. Vague subjects
Titles that start with indefinite adjectives such as several, many, some, etc., make the topic
vague.
Sources of Research Topics
5. Gray Areas about Lectures, Talks, Seminars The fallacy about COVID-
issues, phenomena, 19 vaccines
etc.
1. You can narrow down the topic by exploring and extending the explanation of a theory.
2. Talk over ideas with people who know research.
3. Focus on specific group. Ex: Students, Mothers, Teachers
4. Define the aim or desired outcome of the study.
a. Is the study exploratory, explanatory, or descriptive?
b. Is the study applied or basic?
Broad Specific
Lack of Self-esteem Lack of Self-Esteem among Introverts: Remedies and
Intervention
Drug Addiction Health Hazards of Vaping: Prevention and Intervention
Suicide Suicidal Teenagers in Urban Areas: A Case Study
COVID-19 Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of COVID-19
⮚ Research title is the most important element of your research as it clearly expresses the
problem to be explored.
⮚ A research title capsulizes the main thought or idea of the whole research paper. It also
reflects the variables under study.
⮚ It is expressed in few words possible and just enough to describe the contents and the
purpose of your research.
⮚ It needs to be informative.
⮚ It contains the:
● What: the subject matter or topic to be investigated
● Where: place or locale where the research is to be conducted
● Who: the participants of respondents of the study
● When: the time period of the conduct of the study
Examples:
● Struggles in Online Learning Modality among Students of Quezon National High School
during School Year 2021-2021
● Less Mastered Competencies of Senior High School Students in Bukidnon during School
Year 2020-2021
In qualitative research, it is not necessary to complete the data on what, where, who, and
when in the title. Consider the research titles below.
What I Can Do
A. Directions: Think of an appropriate research topic that is relevant to you as a Senior High
School student or simply as a citizen of this country. Start from a broad concept, then narrow
it down.
1. Research Topic 1
⮚ Broad Topic: _________________________________________
⮚ Narrowed Topic: _________________________________________
B. Directions: Write a title of the research topic you stated above. Then, supply the information
on what, where, who, and when.
⮚ What: _______________________________________________
⮚ Where: _______________________________________________
⮚ Who: _______________________________________________
⮚ When: _______________________________________________
Lesson
FORMULATING RESEARCH QUESTIONS, SCOPE
Kudos!
Take pride as we begin this session. From the previous lesson, you have already
identified the significant topic that you want to accomplish in your research. And for that,
I say, KUDOS! Since you have already stated your research title, you are guided on the
things that you will do in your paper. However, identifying your audiences, scope and
objectives will give you a complete picture of your paper’s direction.
What’s In
In the previous lesson, you have learned how to design a research project and
identify topics based on your interests. You are also introduced to some red flags in
What’s New
Consider yourself as the speaker No.1. Answers are already provided but you need to
think of the question to complete the conversation.
Note: The question succeeding the given answer is connected to each other.
Example:
Answer:
Where do you usually go
during weekdays? School
You try:
English
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What is It
The questions that you ask in your research will determine the data that you want
to have, answer, and specify in Chapter 4. Hence, it is a crucial stage to attain your
research objective. Research questions help writers focus their research by providing a
path through the research and writing process. You should ask a question about an issue
that you are genuinely curious and/or passionate about. The question you ask should be
developed for the discipline you are studying. A question directed towards Literature, for
instance, is different from an appropriate one in Mathematics to Biology.
A research question forms the base of where you are going, so we have to write a
good research question. If your foundation is built on something shifty, like a house built
on sand, then everything following that will be about correcting that initial issue instead of
on making an awesome home/research project.
Writing a good research question means you have something you want to study.
Let's say you're interested in the effects of television. We will examine the steps and then
look at how you could write a research question.
✔ Clear. It provides enough specifics that one’s audience can easily understand its
purpose without needing additional explanation.
✔ Focused. It is narrow enough that it can be answered thoroughly in the space the
writing task allows.
✔ Complex. It is not answerable with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, but rather requires
synthesis and analysis of ideas and sources prior to composition of an answer.
✔ Arguable. Its potential answers are open to debate rather than accepted facts.
Unclear: How should social networking sites address the harm they cause?
Clear: What action should social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook
take to protect users’ personal information and privacy?
The unclear version of this question doesn’t specify which social networking sites
or suggests what kind of harm the sites might be causing. It also assumes that this
‘harm’ the
Writing is proven
Thesisand/or accepted.
Statement
Unfocused:
Every paper youWhat is the
write effect
should on the
have environment
a main from global
point, a main warming?
idea, or central message.
The argument(s) you make in your paper should reflect this main idea. The sentence that
Focused: What is the most significant effect of glacial melting on the lives of
captures your position on this main idea is what we call a thesis statement.
penguins in Antarctica?.
A thesis statement focuses your ideas into one or two sentences. It should present
The unfocused research question is so broad that it couldn’t be adequately
the topic of your paper and also make a comment about your position in relation to the
answered in a book length piece. While the focused version narrows down to a
topic. Your thesis statement should tell your reader what the paper is about and also help
specific effect of global warming, a specific place and a specific animal that is
guide your writing and keep your argument focused.
affected.
Original thesis:
Revised theses:
The pornographic violence in "bloodbath" slasher movies degrades both men and
women.
Today's slasher movies fail to deliver the emotional catharsis that 1930s horror
films did.
✔ Unless you're writing a technical report, avoid technical language. Always avoid
jargon, unless you are confident your audience will be familiar with it.
✔ Avoid vague words such as "interesting,” "negative, "exciting,” "unusual," and
"difficult."
✔ Avoid abstract words such as "society," “values,” or “culture.”
Writing a research paper has its purpose-- may it be for you (as a researcher) or
even for others. That is why, you need to identify the key reason/s why you are taking a
step forward and make your query into a formal writing. In this stage, your ‘WHYs’ and
‘HOWs’ will be answered and explained. Before taking this step, read the following notes:
Your problem statement can guide you in identifying the specific contribution of
your study. You can do this by observing a one-to-one correspondence between the
statement of the problem and the significance of the study.
For example, if you ask the question ‘Is there a significant relationship between the
teacher’s teaching style and the students’ long quiz scores in Mathematics?’ then the
contribution of your research would probably be a teaching style or styles that can
help students perform better in Mathematics. Your research will demonstrate that
teaching style really works. That could be a groundbreaking approach that will change
the way teachers teach Mathematics which students are hesitant of.
Write the significance of the study by looking into the general contribution of your
study, such as its importance to society as a whole, then proceed downwards--towards
its contribution to individuals and that may include yourself as a researcher. You start off
broadly then taper off gradually to a specific group or person.
The findings of this study will underscore to the benefit of society considering
that mathematics play an important role in science and technologies today. The greater
demand for graduates with Mathematics background justifies the need for more
effective, life changing teaching approaches. Thus, schools that apply the
recommended approach derived from the results of this study will be able to train
students better. Administrators will be guided on what should be emphasized by
teachers in the school curriculum to improve students’ performance in Mathematics.
For the researcher, the study will help them uncover critical areas in the educational
process that many researchers were not able to explore. Thus, a new theory on
learning mathematics may be arrived at.
What’s More
Given the notes on writing research questions, formulate three (3) research
questions from your research title on the previous lesson. Indicate your thesis statement
to guide you in making clear, focused and concise questions.
Title: ____________________________________________________________
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Research Questions:
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B. In writing the Significance of the Study, one should follow these tips:
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C. How does the significance of the study help in presenting a clear picture of your
research?
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What I Can Do
1. The government has taken precautionary measures against Novel Corona Virus
(COVID-19)
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2. These people are good sources of ideas about a research study, EXCEPT those:
A. Who aspire to do research study?
B. Who are knowledgeable about the topic?
C. Who have opposing views about the research?
D. Whose opinions may differ from the researcher?
7. In research, this will be your guide in identifying the specific contribution of your
study.
A. Hypothesis
B. Research topic
C. Problem statement
10. In writing the significance of the study, the researcher should follow this format.
A. general to specific contribution
B. specific to general contribution
C. direct to specific contribution
D. none of the above
11. One of the components of a research question that provides enough specifics that
one’s audience can easily understand its purpose without needing additional
explanation.
A. Complex
B. Clear
C. Arguable
D. Concise
12. Choose a statement below to translate this unclear research question to a specific
one.
Unclear: How should social networking sites address the harm they cause?
A. What action should social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook take to
protect users’ personal information and privacy?
B. What are the steps to eliminate harm caused by social networking sites?
C. Why do social networking sites a contributory factor for teenager’s
psychological struggles?
D. How to minimize the disadvantages of social networking sites?
Additional Activities
Directions: Given the following research topics, identify the scope of the study:
1. Bullying cases among Grade 7 students of ABC Academy
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3. Difference of the 3rd and 4th quarter Science grades of Grade 5 pupils
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