...FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF BACHELOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION MAJOR IN MATHEMATICS STUDENTS OF PANGASINAN STATE UNIVERSITY An Action Research Presented to the Teacher Education Department Pangasinan State University Sta. Maria Campus In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject Action Research in Mathematics AILENE P. CASTULO PRIMROSE E. PASCUA OCTOBER 2014 Table of Contents TITLE PAGE i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii TABLE OF CONTENTS iii LIST OF TABLES iv ABSTRACT v CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION Background of the Study 1 Statement of the Problem 4 Importance of the Study 5 Definition of Terms 6 CHAPTER II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Related Literature 7 Related Studies 8 CHAPTER III. METHODOLOGY Research Design 12 Population and Locale of the Study 13 Data Gathering Tools and Procedure 13 Statistical Treatment 14 CHAPTER IV. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA Self 16 Friends 17 Family 19 Teacher 20 All Factors 21 CHAPTER V. SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION Summary of Finding 22 Conclusions 23 Recommendation 24 BIBLIOGRAPHY 25 Survey Questionnaire 28 Letter of Request to Conduct 30 CURRICULUM VITAE 31 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Self Factors 16 Table 2 Friends Factors 17 Table 3 Family Factors 18 Table 4 Teacher Factors...
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...PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns for a period of learning has been done. It is believed that a grade is a primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicate lesser learning. However, many experiences and studies found out that there are also several factors that would account for the grades. No single factor can be definitely pointed out as predicting grades. It has been interplay of so many factors – gender, IQ, study habits, age, year level, parent’s educational attainment, social status, number of siblings, birth order, etc. In fact, almost all of existing environmental and personal factors are a variable of academic performance. However, at this point in time, the researchers would like to investigate the possible relationship of study habits and the factors affecting it to the academic performance of students of University of Cagayan Valley. The investigation of on this area thus becomes a real and compelling motivation for the researchers to conduct this study. Education as the key to development is mandated to upgrade teaching effectiveness among educators as well as learning efficiency among learners. Many efforts by school administrators have been done to improve the retention of college students. Academic advising, orientations, facility improvements, mentoring, and continuous...
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...(BSAT) is a program that prepares students for a career in the accounting and finance divisions of organizations in the private and public sectors. The accounting courses in the program, combined with business management courses, equip students with the needed skills, proficiency, and intellectual abilities to lead successful careers. But, unlike Accountancy, BSAT is a non-board course. However, the graduates of the said program can take the Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) Examination for license. This study aims to determine the reasons and causes why BSA students end up getting BSAT degree instead of Accountancy degree. We, researchers, will investigate on the factors affecting the students focus in studying. We will be conducting survey in the form of questionnaires and interviews with 3rd year and 4th year BSAT students of Araullo University – Phinma Education Network. There are many factors that affect a BSA student to fail: his abilities, his interest in the course, the teaching method, the classroom, lack of personal direction, pressure from parents or peers, laziness, lack of confidence, family or relationship problems. Another factor that is going to be stressed out in our study is the retention policy being imposed in the accountancy program. It will be explained here how this policy affect each and every BSA student; what improvements can be done to maximize its use and be an effective tool in producing quality students. Furthermore, there is also a growing...
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...Philippines has regressed a lot over the last ten years. This is attributed to the declining quality, relevance and accessibility of education, the very basic rights of the Filipino youth. Many problems are mentioned except the problem regarding the attitudes of the students toward their academic performance. There is a usual observation and protest of the secondary school teachers regarding the products of the elementary level of education or the foundation of their learning. They said that the pupils do not know how to study on their own initiative. Some cannot work out their assignments; others cannot take part actively in the class recitation, and others do not know the art of note taking. There have been many instances which showed that majority of the students display inability to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant information they got from their references. Quite a number of students simply pick up the words from the pages of the books or printed materials while comprehending the meaning of it. These and many others are results of poor method of study habits. Thus, developing the youth requires early training in the schools. According to Covey (1989), “To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.” It is said that aside from...
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...Chapter I Why thus lack of study habits affect in academic performance II. Introduction The extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns for a period of learning has been done. It is believed that a grade is a primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicate lesser learning. However, many experiences and studies found out that there are also several factors that would account for the grades. No single factor can be definitely pointed out as predicting grades. It has been an interplay of so many factors – gender, IQ, study habits, age, year level, parent’s educational attainment, social status, number of siblings, birth order, etc. In fact, almost all of existing environmental and personal factors are a variable of academic performance. However, at this point in time, there searchers would like to investigate the possible relationship of study habits and the factors affecting it to the academic achievement of under graduate education students of University of the East. Background of the study In the globalization and technological revolution, education is considered as a first step for every human activity. It plays a vital role in the development...
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...A CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL - RELATED FACTORS AFFECTING NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE By Dr. Olaniyi Bojuwoye ABSTRACT A ten-item questionnaire containing various descriptions of school-related characteristic which have been found to adversely affect pupils academic performance was administered on 809 teachers and 1012 students of secondary schools from ten randomly selected states in Nigeria. The respondents ranked the characteristics in terms of their degree of effect on pupil academic performance. The result showed that lack of resource materials for teaching, instructional strategies, teacher shortages and teachers’ attitude to work were rated more highly than other characteristics. The result further showed that while the teachers considered lack of resource materials for teaching as having the greatest degree of effect on pupils academic performance, the students on the other hand considered poor instructional strategies as having the greatest degree of effect on pupil academic performance. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND LITERATURE On attaining Independence status as a nation in 1960 what seemed a major concern to most Nigerian leaders then was how education would be accessible to all citizens of the newly created nation. Education was seen as the necessary instrument immediately and essentially for the consolidation of the independence, for securing the new nation against neocolonianism and for making workable the newly established self government in a...
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...ASSESEMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING GENDER IN ACADEMIC AREA INACADEMI ACHEVIMENT ABSTRACT The objective of the study is to provide sufficient and reliable statistical information on the rationality behind gender difference in academic performance. Equality is one of the greatest issues that peoples have been scarifying their money, knowledge and even their life to maintain it throughout their people, nation and the world in general. For this study, we are use questioner as an instrument of data collection. The collected data is analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. From descriptive method, bar-chart, frequency table and pie-chart are used to analyze the descriptive statistics and from the inferential method chi-square test to test the association between two factors and regression analysis and interpretation and two main methods used in inferential statistics, estimation and hypothesis testing. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCATION Background of the study Women in Ethiopia are mainly limited to unpaid house responsibilities such as child as rearing, feeding the family, farming, taking care of domestic animals, giving birth as many as she can of her husband’s children and bringing them up, cleaning, hewing wood fetching water, milking and etc. In addition to this, both culture and religion also play a major role in limiting the positive role that women can play. According to Get chew kasha...
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...world in which we live is often termed a “knowledge society”, education and information have become factors of production that is considered potentially more valuable than labor and capital. In a global setting, investment in human capital has become a need for an international competitiveness. The role of science in our society is one of the central features of our present civilization; it is the age of technological and scientific revolution. Science and Technology is the most dynamic cultural force in the world. Science develops a scientifically literate society and makes an individual more responsive to the needs of the society and to the national development goals. Science and Technology must develop to the individual as stated and mandated in the Constitution for his development and to the nation as a whole. Scientific discoveries and inventions led into the development, progress and industrialization of the nation. Science plays a fundamental role in the life of an individual. It prepares the person in this changing world by equipping him the knowledge, intellectual and scientific skills and attitudes. It helps an individual to explore and explain truths producing useful models of reality of this physical world. It can also provide answers to many of our questions about thing in the environment and the observable phenomena. Science is a very practical subject that students must have to enjoy with the activities related to various lessons covered. This is indeed an area...
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...ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HOSPITALITY STUDENTS OF CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY- SILANG CAMPUS Mark Anthony S. Gato Janna Gold D. Lagura An undergraduate research proposal submitted to the Faculty of Cavite State University- Silang Campus in Partial fulfilment of the requirements for graduation for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management. To be prepared under the supervision of Mr. Rizalito B. Javier. INTRODUCTION Hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, restaurant, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry (Bieber et al, 2011) The fact that some students with apparently high scholastics aptitude do very poorly in tertiary school while others with only mediocre ability do very well has presented a challenge to many educators. It has been observed that hard working students with high IQs sometimes do not perform as well as their classmates with lower IQs (Harvey, 2003) Academic performance is generally refers to how will a student can accomplishing his or her task or studies, but there quite a number of factors that determine the level and quality of students’ academic performance (Bell, 2008). According to Swagman (2011), she stated that the U.S education system stacks up against other countries on the PISA international...
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...broader application for all subject and learned in schools, particularly science and technology as well as in our daily life activities especially in the modern world. One of the needs of the Nigerian society which must be given priority today is the advancement of science and technology which is not possible without mathematics. Mathematics is a very important subject which is made compulsory from primary to post primary schools level of education. Since mathematics is an important subject our life, what does mathematics mean? The Academic American encyclopedia defined mathematics as the study of numbers, set of points, and various abstract elements, together with the relations between them and operations performed on them. Wikipedia defined mathematics as the abstract study of topics such as quantity (number) structure, space and change. Mathematic is a science subject that deals with the study of numbers, shapes, sizes and other relationships among the quantities. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: mathematics is one of the most important and compulsory subjects to be taught in primary schools and even in post primary schools. The subject is very important since it involves almost all aspects of life. It is involved in all aspects of life because, since the beginning of life there is mathematics. This research is carried out to identify the factors affecting the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary school in Toro local government area.. For clarity,...
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...FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ DECISION TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL A Research Paper Presented to Center for Social Development Research Cor Jesu College Digos City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For Academic Research by HERMOGENES C. ORION, JR, Ed.D ERIKKA JUNE D. FOROSUELO, DM-HRM JEAN M. CAVALIDA, MA, RGC March 2013 COR JESU COLLEGE Sacred Heart Ave., Digos City 8002 Davao del Sur Philippines APPROVAL SHEET ------------------------------------------------- As a requirement for Academic Research, this research paper entitled: FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ DECISION TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL has been prepared and submitted by HERMOGENES C. ORION, JR., ERIKKA JUNE D. FOROSUELO, JEAM M. CAVALIDA ------------------------------------------------- APPROVED by the Oral Examination Committee DR.MARIA ELENA MORALES DR. LETICIA CANSANCIO Panel Member Panel Member DR. ALEX D. NIEZ Chairperson ------------------------------------------------- Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Academic Research. DR. ALEX D. NIEZ College Dean MAY 2013 ii ACKNOWLEDGMENT ...
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...ISSN: 2165-1019 Approved December 17, 2013 www.ala.org/aasl/slr Factors Affecting Students’ Information Literacy as They Transition from High School to College Jana Varlejs, Professor Emerita, Rutgers, 612 S. First Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, 732846-6850 Eileen Stec, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, Douglass Library, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, 848-932-5009 Hannah Kwon, PhD Student, Rutgers SC&I, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Abstract Despite the considerable attention paid to the need to increase the information literacy of high school students in preparation for the transition to college, poor research skills still seem to be the norm. To gain insight into the problem, library instruction environments of nineteen high schools were explored. The schools were selected based on whether their graduates did well or poorly on information-skills assignments integrated in a required first-year college course. The librarians in the nineteen schools were asked to characterize their working relationships with teachers, estimate their students’ information-literacy achievement, and provide data on their staffing and budgets. Findings suggest that school librarians are seldom in a position to adequately collaborate with teachers and that their opportunities to help students achieve information literacy are limited. Introduction The study reported in this paper was inspired by observations made by students in the Master’s in Library and Information Science (MLIS) program...
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...that parental socio–economic background can have possible effects on the academic achievement of children in school. Whatsoever affect the development environment of children would possibly affect their education or disposition to it. Parental status is one of such variables. When a woman's nutritional status improves, so too does the nutrition of her young children (Lisa et al, 2003). Rothestein has asserted as follows: "Parents of different occupation classes often have different styles of child rearing, different ways of disciplining their children and different ways of reacting to their children education needs. These differences do not express themselves consistently as expected in the case of every family; rather they influence the average tendencies of families for different occupational classes." (Rothestein, 2004). Socioeconomic status can be defined as a person’s overall social position to which attainments in both the social and economic domain contribute. (Ainley et al., 1995). When used in studies of secondary school students school achievement, it refers to the SES of the parents or family. Socio-economic status is determined by individual achievements in education; employment, occupational status; income and wealth. Several Parent may provide higher levels of psychological support for their children through environments that encourage the development of skills necessary for success at school (Williams et al., 1980; Williams, 1987; Williams et al., 1993). Parents...
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...segregated school system in New York City, America is progressing backwards. With the increasing numbers of minority students attending schools in racially and economically isolated neighborhoods, it is easy to say that America is right back to where it started—a segregated system that is keeping students of color from long-term equal achievement. Furthermore, it is causing a decrease in New York City’s general academic performance of students, and minority families can no longer...
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...(1) Co-curricular Activities, (2) Time Management, (3) Academic Performance, (4) Tourism Education. Part One, Co-curricular Activities, presents the definition, role of co-curricular activity in student, scope of co-curricular activity in school, its importance and benefits. Part Two, Time Management, discusses how to manage your time wisely, its effect in academic performance and co-curricular activities, why time management is important, and its benefits. Part Three, Academic Performance, provides meaning or definition, importance of academic performance, positive factors affecting academic performance, and the factors resulting to academic performance failure. Part Four, Tourism Education gives the definition of tourism education, its importance, information about tourism education. Co-curricular Activities According to Mc Kown (1952) these activities are as old as education itself. They wereknown as used in different forms under different educational settings.The history reveals that the term was called Extra-curricular Activities before four-five decades. It includedathletics, music, oratorical competitions, clubs for students, debating, dramatics, honour awards, special day celebrations etc. These activities were organized mostly by the students themselves. “Co curricular activities were mainly organized after school hours and so were the extra curricular but they are not an integral part of the activities of the school as its curricular work”- according to Aggarwal (2000)...
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