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CS_RS11-IIIa-3
LESSON 2: The Characteristics and Process of Research
QUARTER 1 | S.Y. 2024-2025
Characteristics of Research assumptions, generalizations,
predictions, or conclusions. 1. Empirical 10. Timeliness • The researcher acquires empirical • The research must work on a topic evidences (e.g. facts, dataand that is fresh, new, and interesting to information) generated through the present society. observation and experimentation. 11. Relevance • Research is based on firsthand • Its topic must be instrumental in experience or observation by the improving society or in solving researcher. problems affecting the lives of people 2. Logical in a community. • Research is based on valid 12. Clarity procedures and principles. It is • Research must succeed in expressing guided by the rules on logical its central point or discoveries by reasoning. using simple, direct, concise, and 3. Cyclical correct language. • Research is cyclical because it 13. Original originates with a question or a • The research output must be original problem and ends with another and a product of novel ideas. problem. 4. Analytical Research Process • Research utilizes proven analytical procedures in gathering the data, whether historical, descriptive, and experimental and case study. • Careful analysis and interpretation of data is necessary in order to establish why something behaves in such a manner or how it came to be. 5. Critical • Research exhibits careful and precise judgment. 6. Methodical or Systematic Step 1: The researcher begins with selecting a • Research is conducted in a general problem which is interesting and aligned with one’s specialization. methodical manner without bias using systematic method and Step 2: Reviewing related literature allows the procedures. researcher to explore further the chosen problem. • It follows a certain method or Literature review can reveal what has been studied. procedure in order to obtain objective Results of similar researches may also surface. The results. researcher may also identify the research GAP, the 7. Replicability missing piece of a puzzle in a study. • The research design and procedures Step 3: After a thorough literature review, the are replicated or repeated to enable researcher is now ready to formulate a specific the researcher to arrive at valid and research problem, question or hypothesis. conclusive results. Step 4: Data gathering follows. Researcher needs 8. Accuracy to make sure that the specific research problem and questions are the main focus of collecting data. • The research must give correct or accurate data, which the footnotes, Step 5: When the data are made available, these notes, and bibliographical entries have to be carefully analyzed and presented. should honestly and appropriately Step 6: The researcher interprets the findings and documented or acknowledged. formulates conclusions and recommendations. 9. Objectiveness • The research must deal with facts, not with mere opinions arising from
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