Practical Reasearch 1 Week 2

Research Experiences and
Knowledge
Learning Objectives:
1. share research experiences and

knowledge
2. explain the different life
processes
Do you feel annoyed if there is a power interruption? Can you
imagine a world without electricity? Do you feel unease if the
internet connection is not stable? Can you imagine if there is no
internet or if there is no cellphone? Well, of course, you will be
annoyed, mad, and worried. Life will be difficult if there is no
electricity. Life will be boring if there is no cellphone or even the
internet. Life is threatened if there will be no cure for COVID-19. But
thanks to research, all our worries are gone. It is because of research
which made our lives comfortable, easy, and secured. Various
researches have changed our lives. Here are some leading outputs of
the researches that really changed the world and our perspectives in
lives.
Can you imagine if no one has dared to conduct
research on these things?
For sure life will be miserable. Thus, research is indeed

important to us.
Think of what you consider most valuable on the things
that you have now? Can you cite five of them? It can be
your cellphone, your shirt, your pants, your computer,
your pencil, or your ballpen. I know you are aware that
those are products of research. These are made out of a
long and tedious study of different groups or individuals
like what you are doing when you seek for answer. If
things that you have are important and these are the
product of research, can we say that research is important
to us? ABSOLUTELY YES! RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT!
Research is very significant on our lives, it has gradually
changed human life through history. Here are the five (5)
importance of research to our daily lives.
1. Research aims for truth (Rolfe 2002).

2. Research improves quality of human life (Bornmann 2013).
3. Research saves life(Cancer Research UK 2019).
4. Research gathers necessary information (Igwenagu 2016).
5. Research explores humanity (Lee, Tran, and Lee 2007).
The research aims for truth. We crave truth for no one has the desire to
live in lies (Rasmussen 2013). Research is about establishing truth based
on evidence or data. We conduct a study to seek for truth. Just imagine,
for many centuries people believe that the world is flat and it is over the
giant turtle. Beyond the horizon of the sea is an abyss. But there came
Ferdinand Magellan who proved this otherwise. His courage and research
have made us live with the fact that the world is round. Have you ever
heard about the belief that earth is the center of the universe? Actually,
for many years men believed that everything revolved around us. But
thanks to Copernicus, because of his tedious research, now we know that
it is not Earth as the center of the universe but the sun. I beat you can cite
more examples related to this concern. Nonetheless, the main idea here
is that research provides us an explanation or solution to particular
problem based on truth (Kasi 2009).
Research improves the quality of human life. I believe that you often hear from your
parents about their experiences when they were young. Though it sounds so boring,
they live without television, without the internet, without a cellphone, without an
air condition, without an electric fan, without computer, or online games. Can you
imagine that kind of life? But look at our situation now. Everything that they don’t
have before, we have it now. You can cook now without a fire stove. Now, it is a
matter of pushing a button with the use of a rice cooker or electric stove. You can
call and see your friends abroad without hustles through the use of social media
platforms. You can travel anywhere by just a matter of hours or a few days using
your motorcycles and bikes. You can enjoy staying at home not going outside with
the use of your smartphones. This is the life we have now. Do you think it just went
down from heaven like rain during the rainy season? All of the technological
advancements are brought by different researches (Gupta 2018). Without the people
who dedicated their lives for the sake of humanity, we will not have this kind of life.
Through research, it improves our standard of living.
Research saves a life. Through the course of human history, research has proven
its worth and roles in our lives. In the past, when penicillin was not yet
discovered, people just die without proper medication. It was by the research of
Fleming that the first generation of antibiotics were discovered (Pandey et al.
2014). In the same manner, how can we forget the research of Dr. Abelardo
Aguilar, a Filipino doctor, one of the contributors to the discovery of Erythromycin
during the late 1940s? Now, we have effective medicine in bacteria that causes
infections in the respiratory tract (Peretti et al. 2011). Moreover, Dr. Fe Del Mundo
improved the incubator and jaundice relieving device. Now pre-matured babies
and those suffering from jaundice can survive and enjoy life in the future. With
our situation now with the threat of COVID 19, the only hope is research.
Research on understanding the disease, development of vaccines, and medication
will save us. Nonetheless, researchers are doing their best working day and night
to have a medical remedy for this pandemic. Later, research will succeed and will
continue to provide us a safer life.
Research gathers the necessary information. Conducting research implies gathering
necessary data to explain your problem and to answer your particular questions for
example, you want to understand students’ perceptions about modular learning, then,
you conduct survey to the projected respondents or direct interviews with the
projected participants. Thus, the content of the survey questionnaire and the guided
interview must aligned to the your problem and to the questions that you like to
answer. On this manner, you are gathering important data needed for your research.
Another, when COVID 19 was just starting to spread, medical experts are puzzled
about the emerging disease (Vetter, Eckerle, and Kaiser 2020). Many of them wanted
to know what was the cause. Some of them investigated how it is being transmitted.
Some experts dealt with medical mapping. Others determined the incubation period
and how it can be prevented. Each of them intensively conducted a particular study to
answer their inquiries. They did many laboratory experiments, observations, and
literature review. Data related only to their questions were considered. Now, we have
at least a good perspective on the manner the virus is transmitted, possible
medication, ways to prevent it, incubation period, and location affected by the
pandemic. Thus, the necessary information to understand the situation was gathered.
Research explores humanity. Do you know that Bataeños have developed
distinct Tagalog intonation and words? Do you know that the song “Ati Ku
Pung Singsing” is about the culture of the Kapampangan? Do you know that
in Zambales, the Aetas have customary maternal and infant care beliefs
based on their tradition and faith passed through generations? Do you know
that the Dumagat of Aurora considered prayers as part of their economic life?
Do you know that the province of Tarlac came from the "Malatarlak"? I am
quite sure that you are familiar with some of these questions. These are just
examples of how research explores the culture of people. Research likewise
deals with the investigation of culture to understand and to appreciate
others' practices, and beliefs (Zion and Kozleski 2005). The way we
understand others is the result of a long study of different individuals to
provide us explanations about group or individual culture. Because of this,
we can now related, understand, and respect others.
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Research Experiences and

1. share research experiences and

For sure life will be miserable. Thus, research is indeed

1. Research aims for truth (Rolfe 2002).

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