PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1 FOR GRADE 11 STUDENTS
- 1. NATURE OF INQUIRY AND RESEARCH INQUIRY – to look for information by asking various questions about the thing you are curious about
- 2. NATURE OF INQUIRY AND RESEARCH RESEARCH – to discover truths by investigating on your chosen topic scientifically.
- 3. INQUIRY 1. INQUIRY – a learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge or information about people, things, places, or events.
- 4. HOW YOU DO INQUIRY 1. Investigating or asking questions about something you are inquisitive about
- 5. HOW YOU DO INQUIRY 2. Collect data, meaning, facts, and information about the object of your inquiry and examine such data carefully.
- 6. HOW YOU DO INQUIRY 3. Execute varied thinking strategies that range from lower-order to higher-order thinking skills (inferential, critical, integrative and creative thinking)
- 7. INQUIRY 2. INQUIRY – a problem- solving technique acting like a scientist by imagining, speculating, interpreting, criticizing and creating something of what you discovered.
- 8. INQUIRY 1. John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for exploratory and reflexive thinking.
- 9. INQUIRY 2. Lev Vygotsky’s Zones of Proximal Development (ZPD) that stresses the essence of provocation and scaffolding in learning.
- 10. INQUIRY 3. Jerome Bruney’s theory on learners’ varied world perceptions for their own interpretative thinking of people and things around them.
- 11. ELEMENTS OF INQUIRY 1. Changing knowledge 2. Creativity 3. Subjectivity 4. Socio-cultural factors 5. Sensory experiences 6. Higher- order thinking strategies
- 12. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY- BASED LEARNING 1. Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic skills 2. Improves student learning abilities
- 13. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY- BASED LEARNING 3.Widens learner’s vocabulary 4.Facilitates problem- solving acts 5.Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge
- 14. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY- BASED LEARNING 6.Encourages cooperative learning 7.Provides mastery of procedural knowledge 8.Encourages higher- order thinking skills
- 15. BENEFITS OF INQUIRY- BASED LEARNING 9. Hasten conceptual understanding