The document outlines the importance of establishing a rationale for conducting research, emphasizing the need for justifications such as relevance to existing literature, identification of research gaps, and urgency of the study. It also discusses the necessary components of writing a rationale and provides examples related to specific educational contexts, particularly focusing on indigenous communities such as the Aetas. Additionally, the document includes instructional components, such as multiple-choice questions and true/false statements related to literature reviews and research methodology.

2. At the end of our discussion, you are expected to
learn the following competency:
1. provide the justifications/reasons for
conducting research

3. TAKE NOTE:
It is necessary to be rational in
everything that you do in
research, or else it might be a
waste of time and effort.

4. Rationale of the
Study

5. Rationale of the study
It is one of the major components in the introductory
part of your research paper.
According to Merriam-Webster, a rationale is:
1 : an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief,
practice, or phenomena
2 : an underlying reason : basis

6. A rationale pertains to the
reasons why the study must be
conducted.

7. Consider the following questions:
Is there a need to conduct a study about your
chosen research topic?
Does it pose a significant research problem?
Does it matter to your academic discipline?

8. How to Write the Rationale of the Study
1.Existing Literature - a background on
what researches have already been done about
the given subject.
2. Relevance to Local/Global Context -
situational interconnectedness of individuals or
things in varying perspectives.

9. 3. Critical Background/Contextual
Information - circumstances forming a background
of an event, idea or subject, that enables the readers to
understand the nature of the problem.
4. Research Gap - problems, issues or questions that
have not been addressed or are yet to be understood.

10. 5. Proof of Urgency - an urgent need to solve
the existing problem.
6. Research Goal/Objective - the purpose
why there is a need for the proposed study to be
conducted.

11. The Educated Citizen: Cultural
and Gender Capital in the
Schooling of Aetas’ Children in
the Municipality of Janiuay
(Moralista & Delariarte, 2014)

12. Republic Act No. 8371 is an act to recognize, protect and
promote the rights of indigenous cultural
communities/indigenous peoples, created a National
Commission on Indigenous Peoples, established implementing
mechanisms, appropriated funds therefore, and for other
purposes (Enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Philippines in Congress, 1997). This Act
is known as "The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997." The
State shall recognize and promote all the rights of Indigenous
Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) as
enumerated within the framework of the Constitution.

13. Toward these ends, the State shall institute and establish
the necessary mechanisms to enforce and guarantee the
realization of these rights, taking into consideration their
customs, traditions, values, beliefs, interests and institutions,
and to adopt and implement measures to protect their rights to
their ancestral domains (Republic of the Philippines Congress
of the Philippines Third Regular Session. No. 1728; H. No.
9125, 1997). The State recognizes its obligations to respond to
the strong expression of the ICCs/IPs for cultural integrity by
assuring maximum ICC/IP participation in the direction of
education, health, as well as other services of ICCs/IPs, in order
to render such services more responsive to the needs and
desires of these communities.

14. The UN Declaration of Human Rights especially on
education and the 1987 Constitution of the Republic the
Philippines are among the foundations on which this study was
anchored. As educators, the researchers are curious about the
plight of the Aetas, their hopes and how they see education in
relation to their own indigenous culture.
This study aims to understand the cultural practices of
Aetas’ children in the Municipality of Janiuay; to investigate the
gender capital in the schooling of Etas’ children in the
Municipality of Janiuay; to determine the Aetas’ role in
preserving their cultural practices as influence.

15. President Rodrigo Roa
Duterte’s Political Speeches:
A Critical Discourse Analysis
(Remorosa, 2018)

19. At this point, you are heading your way on writing the content
of your research paper. Remember to use the same research
topic and title based on your previous research tasks. Start
drafting your rationale by supplying the necessary information
in the given template below.

20. Research Topic:
________________________________________________
Research Title:
________________________________________________
Why is your research important?
_________________________________________________
What real life or everyday problem, issue, or question does
your research hope to address?
___________________________________________________

21. How does it relate to local or global context?
_____________________________________________________
What is your research eventually trying to achieve?
__________________________________ __

22. MULTIPLE CHOICE
INSTRUCTION: Read each statement carefully.
Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct
answer.
1. What type of reading employs skimming strategy?
a. analytic reading b. systematic reading
c. elementary reading d. comparative reading
2. What coding strategy uses marks and symbols?
a. reading b. annotation
c. highlighting d. synthesis matrix

23. 3. Which of the following can be a source for a literature
review?
a. book b. article
c. dissertation d. all of the above
4. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a
research literature to be used for
own study?
a. It is outdated.
b. b. It has clear scope.
c. It shows accurate results.
d. It identifies a research gap.

24. 5. What is a table that can be used to
organize ideas from groups of reviewed
literature?
a. reading
b. annotation
c. highlighting
d. synthesis matrix

25. CHADA or CHAROT!!!
Instruction: Write CHADA if the given statement
is correct and CHAROT if not. Write your
answers on your notebook.
1. Literature review includes collecting and
synthesizing ideas from different scholarly
sources.
2. Literature review is used to design the
conceptual framework of one’s study.

26. 3. Relevant literature is used to identify
research gaps in a particular field.
4. Literature review leads to a
misconception of a study.
5. A literature review should only focus on
one reference.

27. 6. It will be more reasonable to conduct research if
there is no urgent need to solve the existing
problem.
7. The researcher needs to provide the readers
with critical background or contextual information
that introduces the research topic.
8. Validity of justification can be expressed by
referring to a policy, press report, or other
reputable information source.

28. 9. The study must relate to either local or
global context, or both.
10. Research gaps pertain to problems,
issues or questions that have already been
addressed and understood.