ENGAGEMENT 1: METHODS OF INQUIRY

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Knowledge Management

• Systematic process of creating, capturing, organizing, and sharing human knowledge to foster learning, innovation, and improved functioning in various aspects of wellness and wellbeing. 

• An efficient use of knowledge.

• How to gather, sort, and create new ideas or knowledge.

systematic

Knowledge Management is a ______ process of creating, capturing, organizing, and sharing human knowledge to foster learning, innovation, and improved functioning in various aspects of wellness and wellbeing. 

creating, capturing, organizing, and sharing

Knowledge Management is a systematic process of ______, ________, __________, and _______ human knowledge to foster learning, innovation, and improved functioning in various aspects of wellness and wellbeing. 

Consumption, Generation, Propagation

Pillars of Knowledge Management

Consumption

• Using knowledge

• Trying to make use of the knowledge.

Generation

• Creating knowledge

• Replecating, reproducing, or creating something new.

Propagation

• Propagation

• You are sharing knowledge.

Capture, Curate, Connect, Collaborate, and Create

5Cs of Knowledge Management

Capture

• Archiving and keeping tacit and explicit knowledge from different corpora, such as lessons learned, expertise, success stories, milestones, and other documents.

• Taking down notes for that knowledge.

• Ex.: Saving a post that you need later on.

archiving

Capture is the _______ and keeping tacit and explicit knowledge from different corpora, such as lessons learned, expertise, success stories, milestones, and other documents.

corpora

Capture is the archiving and keeping tacit and explicit knowledge from different ______, such as lessons learned, expertise, success stories, milestones, and other documents.

tacit and explicit

Capture is the archiving and keeping ___ and ____ knowledge from different corpora, such as lessons learned, expertise, success stories, milestones, and other documents.

Curate

• Arranging, clarifying, and verifying information to ensure that they are reliable, accessible, useful, and available to all.

• Ex.: Trying to arrange which information is useful and which is not.

• We remember more when we give importance to the information.

arranging

Curate is the ________, clarifying, and verifying information to ensure that they are reliable, accessible, useful, and available to all.

Connect

• Bridging people to experts, communities of practice, support groups, and other relevant sources to facilitate the exchange of knowledge.

• Ex.: You’re connecting with a specific community, experts, and support groups.

exchange

Connect is about bridging people to experts, communities of practice, support groups, and other relevant sources to facilitate the ________ of knowledge.

Collaborate

• Uniting and joining forces with people to share ideas and insights, resolve issues, improve processes, discuss best practices, and exchange stories.

• Ex.: Sharing of ideas in a group activity.

Create

• Advancing knowledge, insights, and innovations by capitalizing on existing information, fostering creativity, and promoting scholarship.

• Ex.: Re-creating trends.

METHODS OF INQUIRY

• Gaining Better Appreciation of the Different Sources of Knowledge

• Are ways in which a person can acquire knowledge or find answers to questions.

• Organized and systematic approaches used by scholars for controlled investigations and experiments to efficiently solve theoretical and practical problems, generating discoveries and/or other advances.

controlled investigations and experiment

Methods of Inquiry is the organized and systematic approaches used by scholars for ___________ and ______ to efficiently solve theoretical and practical problems, generating discoveries and/or other advances.

Superstitious, Intuitive, Authoritative, Tenacious, Rational, Experiential, Scientific Method

Methods of Inquiry

Superstitious Method

• Source of knowledge grounded in the magic and certain practices attributed to the unknown; commonly passed on from one generation to another, and are considered essential in maintaining certain aspects of a culture’s belief system.

• Ex.: Black Cat

magic; unknown; one generation to another; culture’s belief

Superstitious Method is the source of knowledge grounded in the ___ and certain practices attributed to the ____; commonly passed on from ________________, and are considered essential in maintaining certain aspects of a _________ _ system.

Intuitive Method

• Information is accepted on the basis of a hunch or “gut feeling.”

• Limitation: No mechanism for separating accurate from inaccurate knowledge.

• Intuition.

• Ex.: Gambling, Mother’s Intuition, “I have a feeling” moment

hunch or gut feeling

Intuitive Method is when the information is accepted on the basis of a ___ or “______.”

Authoritative Method

• A person relies on information or answers from an expert in the subject area

• Its strength depends on the strength of these sources.

• Ex.: Strong and reliable source from an expert.

• Limitation:

1. We assume, by virtue of the person’s status as an authority, that expertise can be generalized to include the question we are asking (advertisement endorsers).

2. Answers obtained from an expert may represent subjective, personal opinion rather than true expert knowledge.

3. An expert’s statement is often accepted without question; as a result, false information is sometimes taken as truth.

4. Not all experts are experts.

expert

In Authoritative Method a person relies on information or answers from an ___ in the subject area

Tenacious Method

• Information is accepted as true because it has always been believed in by people; word of mouth phenomenon; power in numbers.

• Ex.: Marketing, Propaganda, and Rumors

word of mouth

In Tenacious Method, information is accepted as true because it has always been believed in by people; __________ phenomenon; power in numbers.

numbers

In Tenacious Method, information is accepted as true because it has always been believed in by people; word of mouth phenomenon; power in ______.

Rational Method

• Seeking answers by logical reasoning;

• A set of premise statements is combined to yield a conclusion.

• Logic is an “If…, and then …” statement. The logic can be wrong, but it is still logic.

logical reasoning

Rational Method: Seeking answers by______________

premise statements

Rational Method: A set of ____________ is combined to yield a conclusion.

If, and then

In Rational Method, the logic is an “__________” statement.

Experiential Method

• Uses observation or direct sensory experience to obtain knowledge.

• Attempts to answer questions by direct observation or personal experience.

• All about your experience.

observation or direct sensory experience

Experiential Method uses _______ or ________________ to obtain knowledge.

Scientific Method

• Conclusions are based on empirical evidence or observed facts

• Data collected to support the conclusions are adequate, representative, and were gathered accurately, without bias.

• Entails objectivity, critical analysis, and logical reasoning.

• ALL ABOUT FACTS, EVIDENCE, AND TRUTH

• Can came from an assumption first before becoming a fact.

empirical

In Scientific Method, conclusions are based on _____ evidence or observed facts

assumption

Scientific Method can came from an ________ first before becoming a fact.

Empirical, Public, and Objective

Principles of Scientific Method

Science is Empirical

• Answers are obtained through methods that are:

  • Structured

    • Acceptable procedures and techniques are used in gathering data.

  • Systematically Performed

    • Under a specified set of conditions, to produce accurate answers.

• We are following a structured and systematic approach method

Structured

Acceptable procedures and techniques are used in gathering data.

Systematically Performed

Under a specified set of conditions, to produce accurate answers.

Science is Public

• Methods/procedures are available for evaluation by others:

  • Replication, Repetition

    • Of methods allow verification of findings

  • Made public by publishing reports in scientific journals.

• Made public for evaluation and critique by others.

evaluation

Science is Public

• Methods/procedures are available for _____ by others:

  • Replication, Repetition

    • Of methods allow verification of findings

  • Made public by publishing reports in scientific journals.

• Replication, Repetition

Science is Public

• Methods/procedures are available for evaluation by others:

  • _______,______

    • Of methods allow verification of findings

  • Made public by publishing reports in scientific journals.

scientific journals

Science is Public

• Methods/procedures are available for evaluation by others:

  • Replication, Repetition

    • Of methods allow verification of findings

  • Made public by publishing reports in _______________.

Science is Objective

• Methods are structured so that the researchers’ biases and beliefs do not influence the outcome of the study.

• Whatever is in the data must be followed.

Pinpointing the Questions or Problems

• Good research starts with a good question.

• You should choose a topic that interests you.

good question

• Good research starts with a __________.

Review of Related Literature and Studies

• Reconnaissance

  • Collective body of works that help build up the research work by demonstrating what are known and what are unknown about a chosen topic.

Reconnaissance

Collective body of works that help build up the research work by demonstrating what are known and what are unknown about a chosen topic.

The “Right” Research Topic, Nature of Topic to be Investigated, and Feasability

Considerations in Experimentation as Research Method

Timeliness, Relevance, Duplication, Applicability or practical value of results, Cost-effectiveness

Nature of Topic to be Investigated

advisor, students, working, professors

• Interaction with others…

  • There is no substitute to interacting with people

    • Talk to your ____.

    • Talk to fellow ____

    • Talk with people who are actively ____ in your area of interest.

    • Talk to your ___ in other research areas.

    • Sometimes a completely different viewpoint is helpful.

The “Right” Research Topic

An area that complements…

• Your personal preferences

• Your technical strengths.

• The professional profile that you foresee for yourself after you graduate.

personal preferences, technical strengths, professional profile

• The “Right” Research Topic

  • An area that complements…

    • Your ________

    • Your _________.

    • The ___________ that you foresee for yourself after you graduate.

Nature of Topic to be Investigated

• Timeliness

• Relevance

• Duplication

• Applicability or practical value of results

• Cost-effectiveness

Feasibility

• Availability of subjects/ethical considerations

  • Ethics Board

• Availability of special equipment

• Necessity for special working conditions

• Degree of sponsorship or administrative cooperation required

• Hazards, handicaps to be encountered

• Time requirements or duration of the project

• Availability of research funds

Sources of Experiment Topics

• Personal Experiences

• Common Sense

• Theories 

• Past Researches

• Journals

• Books

• Theses and Dissertations

• subjects/ethical considerations, special equipment, special working conditions, sponsorship or administrative cooperation, Hazards, time requirements, research funds

Feasibility

• Availability of ________________

  • Ethics Board

• Availability of _________

• Necessity for __________________

• Degree of ________ or ___________ required

• _____, handicaps to be encountered

• ___________ or duration of the project

• Availability of __________