The document discusses research, including its importance, characteristics of good researchers, the research process, and ethics of research. It provides examples of research thrusts such as health, environment, food production, culture, and technology. Research is defined as a systematic process of discovering new facts or verifying existing knowledge through recognized methods. The key characteristics of good researchers are being research-oriented, efficient, scientific, effective, resourceful, creative, honest, and reliable. Research improves life in many ways such as teaching and learning, public services, quality of life, and satisfying human needs.
2. Objectives : The learner
1. shares research experiences and knowledge
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2. explains the importance of research in daily life
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3. describes characteristics, processes, and ethics of
research
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9. Buzz Session:
Share your experiences in Research:
1. What are the things/experiences you like in
doing research?
2. What are your challenges and difficulties?
14. The Research Thrusts of 21st century
Health and Welfare
Conservation and
Environment Safety
Food Production and
Sustainability
Culture and Arts
Social Awareness
Technology and
Development
15. What are the characteristics of
a GOOD researcher?
Research-oriented
Efficient
Scientific
Effective
Active
Resourceful
Creative
Honest
Economical
Reliable
16. SCHEMA 2: VALUES OF RESEARCH TO HUMAN BEINGS
Improves Teaching-Learning
Process
Improves delivery
of public services
Provides wider and better
understanding about man’s
existence and the universe
Improves the
quality and way of
life of people
Improves the quality of work
and labor
Satisfies man’s various needs
Improves Student
Achievements
Importance of Research in Life
18. Generally, the purpose of research may be expressed in
a capsule as:
To discover is to find truth about a subject which was
not yet part of the stream of knowledge.
To verify is to find whether what was found to be true
fifty years ago is still true today.
To predict circumstances which are about to happen
22. RESEARCH - from the French word “cerchier”
-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
defines research as “ newly discovered facts or the
practical application of such new or revised
conclusions, theories or laws.
-According to Wiersma (1995) “research is a process,
an activity in the search for knowledge through
recognized methods of data collection, analysis and
interpretation.
-Hillway defined research as a “way mankind
perfected it very slowly over a period of several
centuries and at present it is considered as the most
reliable means of advancing knowledge.
23. - Helmstadler said about research as the activity of solving
problems which leads to new knowledge using methods of inquiry
that are currently accepted as adequate by scholars in the field.
- Kerlinger :Systematic, controlled, empirical and critical
investigation of natural phenomena guided by theory and
hypothesis about the “presumed” relations among such
phenomena.
- According to Calderon and Gonzales (1993), research may
be defined as a purposive, systematic and scientific process of
gathering, analyzing, classifying, organizing, presenting and
interpreting data for the solution of a problem, for prediction, for
invention, for the discovery of truth or for the expansion or
verification of existing knowledge, all for the preservation of human
life.
