3. What I Know
Write T if the statement is True, F if otherwise.
1. Research involves finding possible answer to questions.
2. Research is carried out to explain situation or phenomenon.
3. Research is a discipline or process for experts only.
4. Surveying is data gathering.
5. Only new knowledge can be considered research.
6. Research happens only in a laboratory.
7. Research improves life.
8. The end result of research is lies or falsehood.
9. Rice cooker can be considered as output of research.
10. We better understand our humanity with research.
4. Lesson
1
Research Experiences and
Knowledge
You have heard probably the term “research” during your junior high
school or from some who have taken the subject in Senior High School. I
am pretty sure that this term has petrified you, chilled you out, and made
you anxious. Some of them shared their unforgettable experiences on this
subject. Nonetheless, you cannot deny that somehow you are afraid to
take this chance. However, those are just misconceptions about research
(Kaur 2014). Research is not what you think of.
5. We can say that part of their stories are true and part of those are exaggerations.
Nevertheless, if you would just realize how exciting and engaging the process of
research is, you would definitely be interested to do it. Research is fun. Here you are
going to explore and to investigate to understand the phenomenon, and to establish
new knowledge that is worthwhile to discover and to share. Research is easy. It is
just requiring to commit yourself and to exert extra effort in understanding the
rudiments on how to write it done and to enhance the skills that you needed. If you
worrying for you’re just a senior high school student, an amateur, and novice who
lacks skills and determination.. You have the skills and the process itself is not new
to you. You have been researching for a long time. Remember how many times you
search for solutions to your problem or investigate to know the answers to your
questions. Can we consider them as a form of informal research? Yes, they are!
6. Imagine that you are a police inspector assigned to solve a crime. There are
four (4) clues in the crime scene. It is your job to decode the clues using the
alphabet, musical notes, and symbols in order to identify who is the
culprit. Write your answers on your notebook.
8. Do you have a similar problem searching about things you don’t know?
I know during that time you were very eager to satisfy your curiosity.
How did you come up with the answer? Have you consulted
anybody? Or you switched on your smartphone or computer and
search on the internet? Isn’t fun to know the answers to your
questions? By doing that, you are actually researching. You are
now conducting research! Continue reading this module to
remember how a student like you do research. Moreover, you will
understand how this subject differs from other subjects that you have
gone through.
9. What is It
If you think research is not for you, let me give you some instances that you might have
applied “researching”. Can you still recall when your Math teacher- asked you to solve a
mathematical problem that you cannot understand? Thus, no matter how you try you
cannot find the right answer or concepts behind it Most probably, you ask somebody to
help you out or you open your cellphone and search for a video tutorial. Can you still
recall when you first played your favorite online game, and no matter how much you try,
you still cannot defeat your opponent’s hero? I think what you did was to ask your friend
or an expert to help you out or you searched on the internet for answers. The process that
you have done is research. You had a problem, you established your methods o n h o w to
solve your problem, you conducted a literature review or an actual interview and survey,
then you came up with solutions. These requires you to search and to overcome your
problems. Research flows in the same manner. Doing research does not necessarily
mean creating extraordinary things like Mark Zuckerberg who developed Facebook or
even Zhang Yiming who created TikTok.
10. Etymologically, research came from “re” and “search”. "Re" is a prefix that
means again and search is a word which means to look for. Therefore, research
is to look for something (Chapman 1979). There are two (2) things that we need to
take note of in this definition. First, research is not only about the discovery
of something unknown, it is coming up with a new explanation of something
that is known. Second, research is a process. It is a process of searching for
something to solve an existing problem or difficulty to solve.
Research is also understood as a systematic investigation or inquiry
entailing collection of data, documentation of critical information, analysis,
interpretation of information (Williams 2007). From the given definition, this
highlights the manner how research is conducted. It is systematic. The question
is, how does it becomes systematic and what makes it systematic.
11. The term systematic entails the structure. To understand the word system, just imagine
your body. Are your hands located in your ears? Or is your nose located on your chin? Of
course, you will reason out that your hands are located to where it should be and your nose
is located in the middle of your face. T he manner of h o w your body parts are structured
and organized implies the system. Research as systematic means it follows the structure or
method. Therefore, whenever collecting data, documenting information, analyzing, and
interpreting information are conducted, a particular method is used.
On the other hand, research can be also viewed as the formation of new knowledge and the
employment of previous or existing knowledge into a new and creative way (O’Donnell
2012). Imagine these two (2) scenarios: mother giving birth to a baby and a potter molding a
pot. The creation of new knowledge can be compared to a mother giving birth. The mother
stands for the research itself and the baby is new knowledge. Thus, through research, new
knowledge is born. On the other hand, a potter molding a pot can be paralleled to the use of
existing knowledge in a new creative way.
12. Here, the potter stands for the researcher, the clay as the existing knowledge, and
the pot itself is a new knowledge made creatively.
Now, do not be afraid to carry out research. It is because you can make a
research. Why? First, it is not new to you. You are not just fully aware that what
you were doing is research and you have been doing many times. Second,
research is not a demanding activity that would exhaust your strength.
However, some particular techniques and processes are involved and needed to
be carried out in conducting this activity. What you have heard from others is a
piece of hoax and challenges. It is a hoax for research is not after all difficult. It
is a challenge for you that needs dedication and commitment to successfully do
this exciting activity.
13. What’s More
Identify the word that is being described in each sentence.
1. It is conducted if someone wants to know something. It starts with the
letter “R” and ends with the letter “H”.
2. It stands for an action when someone follows structures or order in
conducting research. It starts with the letter “s” and ends with the letter “c”.
3. The term represents for the something that someone can get after finishing a
research. It consists of two words? The longest word starts with the letter “k”
and ends with the letter “e”.
4. It happens wh e n somebody wants to answer questions or inquiries. The
longest word starts with the letter “c” and ends with the letter “n”. Further, the
word in the middle is a preposition.
14. 5. It happens when someone wants to answer something. It starts with the
letter “p” and ends with the letter “m”.
6. This word refers to an act when someone seeks to inquire for a question. It
starts with the letter “a” and ends with the letter “r”.
7. Researchers do with the help of experts. It can be one on one or with the
group. It starts with the letter “I”.
8. The word refers to an action when you read articles and other materials to
know m ore what you are searching for. It starts with the letter “r” and ends
in “w”.
9. It refers to observation, survey or interview. This word starts with the letter
“I” and ends with the letter “n”.
10. It stands for an action to answer queries, understand problems seek new
knowledge or based from existing knowledge in a new and creative way. It
starts with the letter “r”.
15. What I Have Learned
Write T if the statement is True, F if otherwise.
1. Research etymologically came from “re” and “search”.
2. Research is only about the discovery of something unknown.
3. Research is not only coming up with a new explanation of something
that is known.
4. Research is a process of searching for something to solve an existing
problem or difficulty to solve.
5. Research is a systematic investigation or inquiry entailing collection
of data, documentation of critical information, analysis, interpretation
of information.
16. What I Can Do
1. What is the best example of informal research? Searching for an
answer through…
a. the use of internet or expert.
b. looking at the beautiful sceneries.
c. to the humming of the birds.
2. What does the word “search” mean?
a. to be attached
b. to be industrious
c. to look for
3. What does the word “systematic” mean?
a. inquire
b. gather
c. structure
17. 4. Why we cannot make research without any problem? It is
because …
a. research doesn’t require any problem at all
b. answering problem is its main purpose
c. all students ought to take in the senior high school
5. In research, what do we search? We search for …
a. new knowledge, explanations and understanding
b. what is not existing in this world
c. on things that can give us satisfaction to our lives
18. Assessment
1. What makes research a systematic?
a. Research follows certain process or standards.
b. Research is just looking for answers.
c. Research is based from previous knowledge.
2. Why research is not new to our experience?
a. because we think
b. because we find explanation for answer
c. because we have research subject
3. What do you call a research that does not follow the
usual format of researching?
a. Formality
b. formal research
c. informal research
19. 4. Why research is not only concern with discovering or creating
new things? It is because…
a. we also seek for explanations.
b. we also search for old things.
c. we are abiding citizens.
5. How do we conduct research in usual human experience?
a. by conducting investigation with the use of different
platform
b. by reflection of what has been done for a day
c. by giving importance to the things that we do at present
20. 6. How does our usual and personal process of conducting
inquiry and problem solving become research?
a. It has process before drawing up conclusion.
b. It follows our innate intuition in solving problem.
c. It uses a non-understandable and complicated process.
7. How existing knowledge becomes basis for new knowledge?
a. It serves as ground or support to the new knowledge.
b. It actually doesn’t have any connection to the new
knowledge.
c. It becomes the only source of explanation.
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21. 8. How simple internet searching or observation became
research? It can be considered as…
a. literature review
b. non-essential review
c. obsolete referencing
9. What makes informal research differs from the formal way of
researching?
a. does not have process
b. follows process
c. does have system
10. What is the purpose of collecting data in research? It is to
gather information
a. necessary for the problem
b. non-related to the issue
c. obsolete and outdated.
22. Search for ten (10) words in the box that are related to research.
1. ___________________________ 6. ___________________________
2. ___________________________ 7. ___________________________
3. ___________________________ 8. ___________________________
4. ___________________________ 9. ___________________________
5. ___________________________ 10. __________________________
23. Lesson
2
Research Experiences and
Knowledge
Do you feel annoyed if there is a power interruption? Can you
imagine a world without electricity? Do you feel unease if the internet
connection is not stable? Can you imagine if there is no internet or if
there is no cellphone? Well, of course, you will be annoyed, mad, and
worried. Life will be difficult if there is no electricity. Life will be boring
if there is no cellphone or even the internet. Life is threatened if there
will be no cure for COVID-19. But thanks to research, all our worries
are gone.
24. It is because of research which made our lives comfortable, easy, and
secured. Various researches have changed our lives. Here are some leading
outputs of the researches that really changed the world and our perspectives
in lives.
1. Electricity 6. Computer
2. Engines 7. Internet
3. Telephone 8. Vaccines for Viruses
4. Rubber 9. Antibiotics
5. Modern Education 10. Modern Medicine
Can you imagine if no one has dared to conduct research on these things?
For sure life will be miserable. Thus, research is indeed important to us.
25. What’s In
Arrange the jumbled words related to the importance of research. Write your answers
on your notebook.
1.
2.
T
I U L A Q T Y
T R H T U
I U L A Q T Y
3. L E F I L E F I
4. I F N O I F N O
5. H Y M I N A T U H Y M I N A T U
27. Think of what you consider most valuable on the things that you have
now? Can you cite five of them? It can be your cellphone, your shirt,
your pants, your computer, your pencil, or your ballpen. I know you
are aware that those are products of research. These are made out
of a long and tedious study of different groups or individuals like
what you are doing when you seek for answer. If things that you have
are important and these are the product of research, can we say that
research is important to us? ABSOLUTELY YES! RESEARCH IS
IMPORTANT!
28. What is It
Research is very significant on our lives, it has gradually changed
human life through history. Here are the five (5) importance of research to
our daily lives.
1. Research aims for truth (Rolfe 2002).
2. Research improves quality of human life (Bornmann 2013).
3. Research saves life(Cancer Research UK 2019).
4. Research gathers necessary information (Igwenagu 2016).
5. Research explores humanity (Lee, Tran, and Lee 2007).
29. The research aims for truth. We crave truth for no one has the desire to live in lies
(Rasmussen 2013). Research is about establishing truth based on evidence or data.
We conduct a study to seek for truth. Just imagine, for many centuries people
believe that the world is flat and it is over the giant turtle. Beyond the horizon of
the sea is an abyss. But there came Ferdinand Magellan who proved this
otherwise. His courage and research have made us live with the fact that the
world is round.
Have you ever heard about the belief that earth is the center of the universe?
Actually, for many years m en believed that everything revolved around us. But
thanks to Copernicus, because of his tedious research, now we know that it is not
Earth as the center of the universe but the sun. I beat you can cite more examples
related to this concern. Nonetheless, the main idea here is that research provides us
an explanation or solution to particular problem based on truth (Kasi 2009).
30. Research improves the quality of human life. I believe that you often hear
from your parents about their experiences when they were young. Though it
sounds so boring, they live without television, without the internet, without a
cellphone, without an air condition, without an electric fan, without computer,
or online games. Can you imagine that kind of life? But look at our situation
now. Everything that they don’t have before, we have it now. You can cook now
without a fire stove. Now, it is a matter of pushing a button with the use of a
rice cooker or electric stove. You can call and see your friends abroad without
hustles through the use of social media platforms. You can travel anywhere
by just a matter of hours or a few days using your motorcycles and bikes. You
can enjoy staying at home not going outside with the use of your smartphones.
31. This is the life we have now. Do you think it just went down from heaven
like rain during the rainy season? All of the technological advancements
are brought by different researches (Gupta 2018). Without the people who
dedicated their lives for the sake of humanity, we will not have this kind of
life. Through research, it improves our standard of living.
Research saves a life. Through the course of human history, research has
proven its worth and roles in our lives. In the past, when penicillin was not
yet discovered, people just die without proper medication. It was by the
research of Fleming that the first generation of antibiotics were discovered
(Pandey et al. 2014). In the same manner, how can we forget the research
of Dr. Abelardo Aguilar, a Filipino doctor, one of the contributors to the
discovery of Erythromycin during the late 1940s? Now,
32. we have effective medicine in bacteria that causes infections in the respiratory tract (Peretti et
al. 2011).
Moreover, Dr. Fe Del Mundo improved the incubator and jaundice relieving device. Now pre-
matured babies and those suffering from jaundice can survive and enjoy life in the future. With
our situation now with the threat of COVID 19, the only hope is research. Research o n
understanding the disease, development of vaccines, and medication will save us.
Nonetheless, researchers are doing their best working day and night to have a m edical remedy
for this pandemic. Later, research will succeed and will continue to provide us a safer life.
Research gathers the necessary information. Conducting research implies gathering
necessary data to explain your problem and to answer your particular questions for example,
you want to understand students’ perceptions about modular learning, then, you conduct survey
to the projected respondents or direct interviews with the projected participants. Thus, the
content of the survey questionnaire and the guided interview must aligned to the your problem
and to the questions that you like to answer.
33. On this manner, you are gathering important data needed for your research.
Another, when COVID 19 was just starting to spread, medical experts are puzzled
about the emerging disease (Vetter, Eckerle, and Kaiser 2020). Many of them
wanted to know what was the cause. Some of them investigated how it is
being transmitted. Some experts dealt with medical mapping. Others
determined the incubation period and how it can be prevented. Each of them
intensively conducted a particular study to answer their inquiries. They did many
laboratory experiments, observations, and literature review. Data related only
to their questions were considered. Now, we have at least a good perspective
on the manner the virus is transmitted, possible medication, ways to prevent it,
incubation period, and location affected by the pandemic. Thus, the necessary
information to understand the situation was gathered.
34. Research explores humanity. Do you know that Bataeños have
developed distinct Tagalog intonation and words? Do you know that the
song “Ati Ku Pung Singsing” is about the culture of the Kapampangan?
Do you know that in Zambales, the Aetas have customary maternal and
infant care beliefs based on their tradition and faith passed through
generations? Do you know that the Dumagat of Aurora considered prayers
as part of their economic life? Do you know that the province of Tarlac
came from the "Malatarlak"? I am quite sure that you are familiar with
some of these questions. These are just examples of how research
explores the culture of people.
35. Research likewise deals with the investigation of culture to understand and to
appreciate others' practices, and beliefs (Zion and Kozleski 2005). The way we
understand others is the result of a long study of different individuals to provide us
explanations about group or individual culture. Because of this, we can now related,
understand, and respect others.
Probably you have your own, experience aware with your own experience how
research works, you can still cite importance of research. These five (5) importance
are just the representation of many benefits we can get out of research. Research is
important because it aims for truth, improves quality of human life, saves life,
gathers necessary information, and explores humanity. Who knows in the future,
you’re research might be beneficial to humanity. Hand on your pencil! Let us start
researching!
36. What’s More
Using the illustration below, write “A” if the symbol shows importance of research related to exposing
the truth, “B” if it improves quality of human life, “C” if it saves life, “D” if it is gathers necessary
information, and “E” if it is humanity. Write your answers on your notebook
1. Making vaccine for COVID 19
2. Carefully studying the situation to know where COVID started.
3. Going to different places to understand their culture.
4. Coming up with technology to make life easy.
5. Using the internet and other social media platform to get information.
37. What I Have Learned
Read each statement carefully. Write T if it is True, F if otherwise.
1. Research provides us a narrow understanding on a particular
problem.
2. Research makes man’s life simple and easy.
3. Research continues to provide us a safer life.
4. In research, necessary information to understand the situation.
5. Research explores the culture of the people.
38. What I Can Do
Look at the doodle carefully and identify five (5) outputs of research. Name and
explain how they become important to us. Write your answers on your notebook.
1. ______________________________
2. ______________________________
3. ______________________________
4. ______________________________
5. ______________________________
39. Assessment
1. How does research become important to humanity?
a. It makes our lives easy and comfortable.
b. Researchers makes money out of it.
c. We are required to take this subject.
2. How can research save lives?
a. provides no solution to our health problems
b. saves lives because it is harmless
c. provides medical explanations and probable solutions
3. How does research improve our lives?
a. continuous development of technology
b. using limited practices and technology
c. using old practices and technology.
40. 4. What is the best example of exploring culture of individuals?
a. development of cellphone
b. space travel.
c. understanding cultural
5. Who is the main beneficiary of research?
a. dogs
b. humanity
c. animals
41. 6. How does research provide answers to our inquiries?
a. drawing through intuition
b. making introduction.
c. inferring through evidences
7. How does research serve as a medium of understanding
the culture of others?
a. Research provides benefits to people.
b. Research becomes a platform or method.
c. Researcher just reflects without evidence.
42. 8. In what way, does research gather information?
a. through interviews, observations and survey
b. through interviews only
c. through observations only
9. Why truth is the main aim of conducting research?
a. to seek for limitations
b. to seek for the truth
c. to know one’s purpose
10. What is the best explanation why we are conducting research?
a. to improve our lives.
b. make money out of it.
c. don’t have anything to do.
43. In three (3) sentences, explain the role of research in understanding the situation of those w h o
are affected b y the C O V I D 19 pandemic. Write your answer on your notebook.
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Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
Concept
The essay
shows
complete
understanding
of the topic.
The essay
shows
substantial
understanding
of the topic.
The essay
shows some
understanding
of the topic.
The essay
shows very
limited
knowledge
on the topic.
The essay is
insufficient.
Reasoning
The essay has
complex and
refined
reasoning
The essay has
effective
reasoning
The essay has
some effective
reasoning
The essay
shows poor
reasoning
The essay
does not
show
reasoning
Grammar
The essay does not
have any
grammatical
error.
The essay has
1 to 3
grammatical
errors.
The essay has
4 to 5
grammatical
errors.
The essay has 6
to 7
grammatical
errors.
The essay has
more
than 8
grammatical
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