WEEKLY VALIDATING QUESTIONS RESEARCH I (8-SSC) Quarter 1- Shift 2- Weeks 1 & 2 Name: Section: Directions: Read, analyze and answer the questions honestly and correctly. Write your answer at the back page of this sheet and use on additional paper if necessary. Week 1-LASs 1: What Research Is 1. Why is research need to be systematic? 2. Why do we need to have supporting pieces of evidence and accompanying details for every variable used in the research study? Week 1-LASs 2: Scientific Research 1. What is the importance of following the scientific method in conducting research? Week 2-LASs 3: The Research Problem and Hypothesis 1. Why is it important to choose a good research problem before conducting a study? 2. What is the most important factor in choosing the research problem? Why? 3. What is the importance of stating both the null and alternative hypothesis in research?Activity 1: Load up your minds. A. QUALITATIVE VS QUANTITATIVE . _ . . heck Directions: Read the following example then decide if the example is qualitative 01' qmnmw' Put a c ' (I) if the example is qualitative and (x) the it is quantitative. Write your answer before the number. - 1. It is light green in color 6. It tastes sour. 7. It makes aloud pop somd. 2. One leafis 9 cm long. 3. 'I'hemassofthe chair is 10.5 kg. ' 4. The temperature of the room increases by28 C 5. The height of the tallest player is 7 feet.\" 8. It smells sweet. 9. It feels very rough 10.- The weather looks fine. B. Determine whether the following types of data are primary sources or secondary sources. Write P if primary and S if secondary. 1. Sports scores taken from the Internet. 2. A blog post describing a study about how monkeys communicate. 3. A scholarly article whose authors studied orangutan communication. 4. A research article by a Southern physics professor. 7 5. An article from a website discussing the cutting-edge developments in the world of physics in I l 6. Empirical scholarly works such as research articles, clinical reports, case studies, dissertations 7. Original documents such as diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, records, eyewitness accounts, autobiographies. 8. Information obtained from the newspaper. ' 9. Interviews, surveys, and eldwork. 10. Literature reviews and review articles (e.g., movie reviews, book reviews) Activity 2: Directions: Decide whether the data collection technique consists of questionnaire, interview, observation or experimmt. 1. Jayson stood outside a movie the other and ask many of the patrons if the movie they watched was good. 2. Cardo gave each member of the class a random cookie, some from recipe A and some from recipe B. Then he observed which students returned for a second cookie. 3. Mark observed students enter a classroom for a class, and recorded whether the first half of the students who arrived for the class to sit in the front half of the room. 4. Jill searched the internet to find comments and reviews from people who owned the type of cellphone she was thinking of buying. 5. Anna determined the effects of sunlight in the growth of the plants using different set ups. 6. A doctor gives 10 patients Drug A and 10 patients Drug B and records the differences. 7. An industrial engineer records the pattern of truck arrivals at a factory, the pace of each worker and machine, and the pattern of truck departures, and makes a computer program to see if a new design would improve profits. 8. You stand behind the counter at the school cafeteria and see how many people order a double lunch. 9. 250 American television viewers are asked which their favorite program is. 10. You want to study the effects of dropping a hydrogen bomb on Cleveland. 11. A farmer divides his field into two sections. One he treats with a new fertilizer and one with the old fertilizer. He compares the yield between the two sections