5. Review time
A research topic should…
1. Be original?
2. Be ambiguous?
3. Fill in a research gap?
4. Be costly and ambitious?
5. Be general and not specific?
6. Arouse intellectual curiousity?
7. Be within the research instrument?
8. Make use of ineffective research instrument?
9. Be completed beyond the given period of time?
10. Be insignificant to the field of study or discipline
10. PRIMARY SOURCES
RELEVANT PEOPLE
RESEARCHER OBSERVATION
RESEARCHER EXPERIENCE
HISTORICAL RECORDS/TEXT
COMPANY/ORGANIZATION RECORDS
PERSONAL DOCUMENTS (diaries, etc)
STATISTICAL DATA
WORKS OF LITERATURE
WORKS OF ARTS
11. SECONDARY SOURCES
RESEARCH BOOKS
RESEARCH REPORTS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
ARTICLES REPRODUCED ONLINE
SCIENTIFIC DEBATES
CRITIQUES OF LITERARY WORKS
CRITQUES OF ART
ANALYZES OF HISTORICAL EVENTS
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23. BATAAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL-
Senior High School
Class Research
Agenda
(Selection of Research
Approach)
24. REVIEW
A review on their pre-immersion activity. (if any)
Group Work – Create a concept map on how to conduct
oneself inside the medicine field/engineering company/
business establishment /technical vocational during the
Immersion period. Choose one member to represent the
group.
25. SELECTION OF RESEARCH APPROACHES
Research approaches are plans and the procedures
for research that span the steps from broad
assumptions to detailed methods of data
collection, analysis, and interpretation. This plan
involves several decisions, and they need not be
taken in the order in which they make sense to us
and the order of their presentation here. The
overall decision involves which approach should
be used to study a topic.
26. SELECTION OF RESEARCH APPROACHES
Quantitative research is an approach for testing
objective theories by examining the relationship among
variables. These variables, in turn, can be measured,
typically on instruments, so that numbered data can be
analyzed using statistical procedures. The final written
report has a set structure consisting of introduction,
literature and theory, methods, results, and discussion.
Like qualitative researchers, those who engage in this
form of inquiry have assumptions about testing theories
deductively, building in protections against bias,
controlling for alternative or counterfactual
27. SELECTION OF RESEARCH APPROACHES
Qualitative research is an approach for exploring and
understanding the meaning individuals or groups
ascribe to a social or human problem. The process of
research involves emerging questions and procedures,
data typically collected in the participant’s setting, data
analysis inductively building from particulars to general
themes, and the researcher making interpretations of
the meaning of the data. The final written report has a
flexible structure. Those who engage in this form of
inquiry support a way of looking at research that honors
an inductive style, a focus on individual meaning, and
28. SELECTION OF RESEARCH APPROACHES
Mixed methods research is an approach to inquiry
involving collecting both quantitative and qualitative
data, integrating the two forms of data, and using
distinct designs that may involve philosophical
assumptions and theoretical frameworks. The core
assumption of this form of inquiry is that the integration
of qualitative and quantitative data yields additional
insight beyond the information provided by either the
quantitative or qualitative data alone.
