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DEL PILAR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

NAME: _______________________________ SCORE: __________

DIRECTIONS: Read carefully and analyze each statement, Choose the letter of the best answer.
Write your answer on the space provided before the number.

_____1. Do you agree that research and inquiry are almost the same in meaning? Why?
a. Yes, because both involve investigative work in which you seek information about something.
b. No, because they don’t have the exact meaning.
c. No, because you don’t do investigation in inquiry.
d. Yes, because both are under the subject Practical Research 1.
_____2. If inquiry is to look for information by asking various questions about the thing you are curious
about, what is research?
a. To seek information about something by searching or examining the object of your search.
b. It is to discover truths by investigating on your chosen topic scientifically and analogous to inquiry.
c. It is a way of obtaining knowledge about your surroundings.
d. It is a learning process that motivates you to obtain knowledge or information about people, things,
places, or events.
_____3. The following statements are benefits of Inquiry-Based Learning except for one.
a. Widens learners’ vocabulary
b. Facilitates problem-solving acts
c. Hastens conceptual understanding
d. A problem-solving technique
_____4. What do you think are the three educational theories that served as the foundation of inquiry-
based learning?
a. John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for exploratory and reflective thinking
b. Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) that stresses the essence of provocation and
scaffolding in learning
c. Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’ varied world perceptions…
d. a, b, and c
_____5. How is descriptive research defined?
a. It shows relationships or connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables.
b. It elaborates or explains not just the reasons behind the relationship of two factors.
c. It aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal or picture of a person, thing, event, group, situation,
etc.
d. It discovers ideas on topics that could trigger interest in conducting research studies.
_____6. How would you explain correlational research?
a. It elaborates or explains not just the reasons behind the relationship of two factors.
b. It aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal or picture of a person, thing, event, group, situation,
etc.
c. It discovers ideas on topics that could trigger interest in conducting research studies. a.
d. It shows relationships or connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables.
_____7. How would you define explanatory research?
a. It shows relationships or connectedness of two factors, circumstances, or agents called variables.
b. It elaborates or explains not just the reasons behind the relationship of two factors.
c. It aims at defining or giving a verbal portrayal or picture of a person, thing, event, group, situation,
etc.
d. It discovers ideas on topics that could trigger interest in conducting research studies.
_____8. Action research is defined as ______.
a. It discovers ideas on topics that could trigger one’s interest.
b. It studies an ongoing practice of a school, or any organization for the purpose of obtaining results
that will bring improvements in the system.
 c. Its purpose is to find out how reasonable or possible it is to conduct a research study on a certain
topic.
d. It involves measurement of data.
_____9. How would you describe qualitative research?
a. It puts premium or high value on people’s thinking or point of view conditioned by their personal
traits.
b. It is analogous to inquiry.
c. It involves measurement of data.
d. These are obtained through direct observation.
_____10. How would you describe primary data?
a. It involves measurement of data.
b. These are obtained through direct observation.
c. It is written or reported on and are available for reading purposes.
d. It is the way of measuring information.
_____11. The researches such as descriptive, exploratory and action research are under what type?
a. Based on Application of Research Method
b. Based on Purpose of the Research
c. Based on Type of Data Needed
d. Based on the Approaches to Research
_____12. The data you deal with in research are either primary or _______.
a. Primary data
b. Secondary data
c. Tertiary data
d. Data
_____13. What statement is applicable to qualitative research?
a. Data are expressed in numbers, percentage and graph.
b. Findings are expressed in words.
c. It uses the combination of words and numbers.
d. Collecting methods are structured interviews.
_____14. What is the best approach for qualitative research?
a. Naturalistic approach
b. Scientific approach
c. Triangulation approach
d. Positive and Negative approach
_____15. What approach is suitable for quantitative research?
a. Naturalistic approach
b. Scientific approach
c. Triangulation approach
d. Positive and Negative approach
_____16. What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative research?
a. Qualitative is objective while quantitative is subjective.
b. Quantitative is objective while qualitative is subjective.
c. Qualitative uses structured interviews, while quantitative uses unstructured interviews as collecting
method.
d. b and c
17-18. Identify the specific type of research for the given topics below.
_____17. Reasons Behind Tuition Fee Increases
a. Action Research
b. Pure Research
c. Explanatory Research
d. Descriptive Research
_____18. Theory of Relativity
a. Pure Research
b. Descriptive Research
c. Explanatory Research
d. Action Research
_____19. Which of the following statements applies to pure research?
a. It deals with concepts, principles, or abstract things.
b. It has the intention to apply a chosen research to societal problems or issues.
c. This research uses words rather than numbers to express the results.
 d. It presents research findings referring to the number or frequency of something in numerical forms
_____20. Which of the following statements applies to applied research?
a. It has the intention to apply a chosen research to societal problems or issues.
b. This research uses words rather than numbers to express the results.
c. It presents research findings referring to the number or frequency of something in numerical forms
d. It deals with concepts, principles or abstract things.
_____21. Which of the following statements presents the importance of qualitative research?
a. Provides answers to one’s questions.
b. It promotes people’s interpersonal relationships that the world needs for solving its societal
problems.
c. It has the reality conditioned by society and people’s intentions are involved in explaining cause-
effect relationships.
d. It allows one to approach or plan a study in varied ways.
_____22. A qualitative research usually takes place in the field of social care, nursing, psychology,
rehabilitation centers, education and others is called ____.
a. Ethnography
b. Phenomenology
c. Case Study
d. Grounded Theory
_____23. It is the study of a cultural group to get a clear understanding of its organizational set-up, internal
operation, and lifestyle. What is it?
a. Case Study
b. Grounded Theory
c. Ethnography
d. Historical Analysis
_____24. How would you describe Phenomenology?
a. It reveals the nature or characteristics of one’s culture.
b. This refers to the study of how people find their experiences meaningful.
c. A method of quantitative research that requires an analysis of content of the mode of
communication used by a person.
d. It is the examination of primary documents to make you understand the connection of past events to
the present time.
_____25. How would you define Historical Analysis?
a. It reveals the nature or characteristics of one’s culture.
b. This refers to the study of how people find their experiences meaningful.
c. A method of quantitative research that requires an analysis of content of the mode of communication
used by a person.
d. It is the examination of primary documents to make you understand the connection of past events to
the present time.
26-28. Identify what type of qualitative research is suitable for each given topic.
_____26. The Mangyan’s Burial Practices
a. Phenomenology
b. Case Study
c. Ethnography
d. Grounded Theory
_____27. Grade 11 Science Textbook
a. Grounded Theory
b. Content and Discourse Analysis
c. Ethnography
d. Case Study
_____28. Student Activism Since the Marcos Era
a. Ethnography
b. Case Study
c. Historical Analysis
d. Grounded Theory
29-31. Identify the kind of science wherein the given areas of knowledge belong.
_____29. Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine
a. Hard Sciences
b. Natural Sciences
c. Soft Sciences
 d. Rough and Smooth Sciences
_____30. Business, Education, Law and Politics
a. Natural Sciences
b. Hard Sciences
c. Soft Sciences
d. Plain Sciences
_____31. Biology, Physics and Chemistry
a. Natural Sciences
b. Hard Sciences
c. Soft Sciences
d. Plain Sciences
32-33. What are some guidelines can you consider in writing a research topic?
_____32.
a. The dates of published materials
b. Your interest in the subject matter
c. The moral support from your groupmates
d. The perfect time to conduct research
_____33.
a. Availability of information
b. The location of researchers.
c. The dates of published materials
d. a, b and c
_____34. What topic should you avoid in writing a research topic?
a. Controversial topics
b. Too broad topic
c. Too narrow topic
d. a, b and c
_____35. What should be the sources of your research topic?
a. Diaries
b. Heresies
c. General periodicals
d. a, b and c
36-39. Read and analyze each given topic and choose the best, considering the topics to be avoided
in writing a research topic.
_____36.
a. War among nations
b. World War II
c. Japan’s Role in World War II
d. War
_____37.
a. Ideologies
b. Feminism in the Digital Era
c. Feminism in Nick Joaquin’s Novel
d. Definition of Feminism
_____38.
a. History of Traditional Grammar
b. History of American Traditional Grammar
c. Traditional Grammar
d. Meaning of Grammar
_____39.
a. Solar Lights
b. What is Solar?
c. The Installation of Solar Lights
d. Whose idea is the use of solar light?
_____40. Would you consider your personal resources in writing a research topic?
a. Yes, because you must assess your research abilities in terms of your financial standing.
b. Yes, because you also assess your physical health and mental condition.
c. No, because doing research does not need any financial and physical effort.
d. a and b
41-43. Select the purposes why research is conducted.
_____41.
a. To make man’s life worse
b. To satisfy man’s curiosity
c. To serve man.
d. b and c
_____42.
a. To give good life to humanity
b. To find answers to a problem
c. To discover new facts about known phenomenon
d. a, b and c
_____43.
a. To make a problem worse and unsolved
b. To create chaotic world
c. To reduce employment
d. To verify existing knowledge
_____44. Does a problem make you worry and pushes you to exert considerable effort in finding a solution
for it?
a. Yes, because a problem has always a solution.
b. No, because a problem is a part of life.
c. Yes, because when you are thinking about your problem, you are motivated to find solution for it.
d. a and c
_____45. You consider ______ as the remedy for getting over any problem.
a. Solution
b. Research
c. Problem
d. Research Problem
_____46. This makes you worry and pushes you to exert considerable effort in finding a solution for it. This
is ____.
a. Problem
b. Research Problem
c. Research
d. Solution
_____47. When you decide to do ____, you begin with a problem that will lead you to a specific topic to
focus on.
a. Problem
b. Research Problem
c. Research
d. Solution
_____48. When you decide to do research, you begin with a ____ that will lead you to a specific topic to
focus on.
a. solution
b. problem
c. research
d. inquiry
_____49. They lay the foundation for the research study.
a. Research problem
b. Questionnaire
c. Research Questions
d. General Question
_____50. ____ aim at investigating specific aspects of the research problem.
a. Research problem
b. Questionnaire
c. Questions
d. Research Questions

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