NYK-TDG Maritime Academy

Knowledge Avenue, Carmeltown, Canlubang

4037, Calamba City, Laguna Philippines

The Benefits of Conducive-to-Learning Facilities

To the Cadets of NTMA

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirement of the Course
English II – Writing in the Discipline

E/CDT. GASPAR, CHRISTOPHER F.

2011

March 2009
 Table of Contents

Title page i

Acknowledgements ii

Abstract iii

Table of Contents iv

List of Tables v

Chapter 1: The Problem 1

A. Introduction 1
B. Statement of the Problem 3
C. Significance of the Study 3
D. Scope and Delimitations 3
E. Definition of Terms 4
F. Theoretical Background 5

Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature 6

A. Summary of the Related Literature 6
B. Statement of Hypothesis 7

Chapter 3: Research Methodology 8

A. Rese
arch Designs 8
B. Resp
ondents 8
C. Rese
arch Instrument 9

Chapter 4: Presentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data 10

A. Stati
stical Treatment 10
B. Prese
ntation of Data 11

Chapter 5: Summary of Data 15

A. Sum
mary 16
B. Concl
usion 16
C. Reco
mmendation 17

Bibliography 18
Appendix vi

Acknowledgment

First of all the researcher expresses his heartfelt gratitude to who

have shared their time, effort, support, advice and expertise towards
the successful realization of this endeavor. The researcher would like
to thank his brothers; family, friends, seniors (batch 2011) and batch
mate especially the researcher’s classmate for their support that they
had shown through this research. The researcher would also like to
thank the NTMA’s library for the resource that I have used. Lastly, the
researcher would like to thank to the specific persons; D/CDT
Mascardo, Greg Alex for the helpful ideas, E/CDT Absulio, Iel for
helping me to the statistical treatment of data and Ms Irene Banico
for the useful advice that she had given me. For the willingly kind
response of cadets, for it is not for them the research will be
nonsense and of no purpose, thank you. To our Almighty GOD, for the
continuous blessing, and knowledge that he had given to me, thank
you.
-The Researcher-
 Manalili, Paul S. “Benefits of Conducive-of-Learning Facilities to the
Cadets of NTMA”, unpublished research paper, BSMT, NYK-TDG
Maritime Academy, Knowledge Avenue, Carmeltown, Canlubang,
4037, Calamba City, Laguna Philippines

Abstract

The research revolves on what possible benefits will the school

facilities will have to offer to cadets of NTMA. The research
concentrates to find beneficial effect of the school facilities to the
cadets. The study uses two different questionnaires, one for
concerning to the level of agreement while the other one concerns to
the yes and no response of the respondents. The response of the
questionnaires is taken from the various cadets as per year level,
section and course. There are 40 cadets all in all who answer the
questionnaire. There are 20 cadets taken from each level, 10 cadets
for each course (BSMT & BSMarE) and 5 cadets per sections, to the
total of 40 cadets. The review concludes that school’s facilities are
beneficial. Respondents say that these said facilities helped them in
their studies in such a way that the lesson/ topic given to them make
it easier, clearer and can be thoroughly understand. Hence, there
should be adequate availability of the school facilities for because
half of the respondents say that school facilities are not always
available.
 Chapter 1
The Problem

Introduction

What benefits do conducive-to-learning facilities offer? -

This is the question. First let us discuss the facilities used in the field
of education. Facilities in field of education could surely affect ways
of teaching and processes of learning. However, what is the
importance of this?

According to the “JATF Training Equipment” magazine,

one of their projects which started in 2003 was the entry of the state-
of-the-art training equipment for Philippine maritime centers that
would enhance technical capabilities of Filipino seafarers when they
work onboard vessels. This training equipment that they are talking
about is the simulators. These simulators provide Filipino seafarers
sufficient knowledge to enhance technical capabilities that they could
apply and use onboard.

In the memorandum of agreement between the IMMAJ-

PJMCCF and the JATF committee, on August 2003, forty percent (40%)
of the JSU-AMOSUP Training Levy Fund shall be allocated for
purchase, operation and maintenance of this training equipment. So
it is safe to say that these facilities and training equipment are
important in the field of education.

Some articles stated that every student is entitled to a

conducive-to-learning environment which is composed of safe, clean,
comfortable modern facilities. They firmly believe that the quality of
the educational environment directly affects the quality of
educational experience. (www.appa.org)

In relation to this there are factors stated by some journal

that School facilities affect Learning. Factors such as spatial
configuration, noise, heat, cold, light and air quality that obviously
bear on students’ and teachers’ ability to perform.

Putting into account that we have these new modern

facilities in the academy that maybe others don’t have, we can raise
questions like what does it do the education of the cadets here in
NTMA? Or Do these facilities really do benefit the cadets? These
questions could possibly lead us to the understanding of the said
topic which is the goal of this book.
Statement of the problem

This study aimed at determining the “Benefits of

Conducive-to-Learning” to the cadets of NTMA. This study will sought
to answer the following questions.

• What are the benefits of having conducive facilities in

NTMA?
• What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of these
facilities?
• What is the possible effect/s on cadets of these conducive
facilities in NTMA?
• Is it really conducive or does these facilities really benefit
us?

Significance of the study

This study will be beneficial to whom? Since this topic will

discuss the benefits of conducive facilities in an educational
establishment, it will serve as evidence to the fact that advanced
learning facilities really contribute to the cadets of NTMA in terms of
the learning processes and study habits that these future seafarers
are developing within the academy. This study will be beneficial to
three important people: the School Administrative in a way for them
to know how the conducive facilities affect their student cadets, to
the cadets as of what benefits they will attain by the use of these
facilities, to the future researcher as to develop and find more ways
to contribute to the learning process here in NTMA.
Scope and Limitations

This topic targets only to the “Benefits of Conducive-to-

Learning Facilities? The topic may include also the advantage/s and
disadvantage/s as well as the effects of it to NTMA cadets. The
researcher will only focus to the facilities inside and relative to NYK-
TDG Maritime Academy, used by the NTMA’s cadets. Facilities such
as, the library equip with cyber nook, simulator, smokehouse,
swimming pool, gymnasium, and equipments like the sextants, fire
extinguisher, etc that other academy doesn’t have. Basically it will
focus and cover the benefits of facilities and equipments used
academically and for educational purposes. The researcher uses
limited resource and limits his study relating to NTMA itself.

V. Definition of Terms

The following terms were defined the readers to

understand the meanings of some terms as used in the study.

 Conducive – conducing nature or quality, contributive

In this study “Conducive” referred to as is the state of

being contributive to learning to the cadets of NTMA

 Facility – something that promote the ease of

any action, operation, transaction, or cause of
conduct.
 In this study “Facility” referred to as are places where
contributes to the learning of cadets at NTMA e.g. Library,
Classroom, Laboratories, etc.

 Equipment – the implements on in an operation or activity.

In this study “Equipment” referred to as are materials

used in teaching or related to academic learning e.g.
firefighting equipment, computers, lathe machine, etc.

 Maritime – Of or concerned with shipping or navigation

In this study “Maritime” referred to as is concerning or

relating to seafaring industry

 Academy – a school for special instruction, a secondary or

college preparatory especially a private one.

In this study “Academy” referred to as is the school where

cadets are thought related to seafaring.
Theoretical Background

According to Schneider, Mark of National Clearinghouse

for Educational Facilities in their work entitled “Do school of facilities
affect academic outcomes” in which the review explores which
facility attributes affect academic outcomes the most and in what
manner and degree. The research is examined in six categories
namely the: indoor air quality; ventilation; and thermal comfort;
lighting; acoustics; building age and quality; school size; and class
size. The review concludes that school facilities affect learning in
which spatial configuration, noise, heat, cold, light, and air quality
obviously bear on students’ and teacher’ ability to perform. Needed
are clean air, good light, and a quiet, comfortable, and safe learning
environment. The review asserts that this can be and generally has
been achieved within the limits of existing knowledge, technology,
and materials; it simply requires adequate funding and competent
design, construction, and maintenance.
Chapter 2
Review of Related Literature

Summary of Literature Reviewed

(“Do school facilities affect academic outcomes”)

One of the projects which started on 2003 was to the

entry of the state-of-the-art training equipment for the Philippine
maritime centers which is purposely for the use of Filipino seafarers
that would enhance their technical capabilities when they work on
board equipments such as simulators of LNG Cargo Handling, Crude
Oil Tanker and Diesel Plant.

While on the other hand, school facilities affect learning

in which the students’ and teachers’ ability to perform is really
affected through many ways, such as spatial configuration of the
academic environment, distractedly noise, temperature heat of
places, and/or cold, lightening system, and finally the air quality of
the environment. Because we already know what is the cause of how
school facilities affect students and teachers, through that we could
conclude the needs of: clean air for air quality, good light for
lightening system, and a quiet, comfortable, and safe learning
environment. This can be and generally has been achieved within
limits of existing knowledge, technology, and materials. It simply
requires adequate funding and competent design, construction, and
maintenance.
 Aged building is not a factor of facilities affecting
academic outputs. Many civic schools in 1920s and 1930s still
provide, with some modernization and excellent learning
environments that many newer schools built in the cost-conscious
1960s and 1970s do not.

There is a definite consensus about the positive effects of

small school size, and the effects seem to be the strongest with
students from lower socio-economic group. This is an area, however,
where policy makers need to support of studies that better establish
the tradeoffs between small schools and other community needs
resource.

Decisions about school facilities, once translated into

brick-and-mortar, affect the daily performance of the generations of
teachers and students who use these school facilities. These
decisions are based on tradition, available technology, experience
with “what works,” and the changing needs of the times. Good
facilities research allow us to productively sort through this mix and
can help produce long-term, positive effects on academic outcomes.

Statement of Hypothesis

Facilities that we are talking about in the research is the

equipments, new technologies, instruments, laboratories and other
academic learning factors used by the cadets in NTMA. NTMA cadets
use these facilities having a reason and purpose for their academicals
use. One thing that I could conclude in the topic (benefits of
conducive-to-learning facilities) is that these facilities give cadets of
NTMA an aid in studying here in NTMA which could help them
thoroughly understand the general and technical things that they can
use on board a ship. These facilities would give and opens a lot of
option for the cadets in their studies, school works, and research of
any subject matter and make them easier and/or maybe faster for
them to learn and understand even by their own selves, these for us
maybe the theoretical answer to these topics.

Chapter 3
Methodology

Research design

The research will provide the respondents an idea of what

will be the facilities used by the cadets of NTMA will offer. The
research will also give knowledge to the NTMA cadets of the benefits,
disadvantage & advantage of those facilities being used by NTMA
cadets here in NTMA. The answer will depend also to the respondents
which is the cadets here in NTMA through the questionnaire that we
will give to them as part of the study.

Respondents
 The research study will focus only and only to the cadets
of NTMA. The respondents will be divided into two groups as per year
level, 20 cadets in the 2nd yr and another 20 for the 1st yr. In every
year level those 20 chosen cadets will come from every section which
is 5 cadets per section. They were the one who are pick because they
are the person who will mostly benefit to the study and these for the
purpose to know and identify to reach the goal and answer the
questions on the study.

III. Research Instruments

In this study we will use a survey questionnaire to answer

by the selected cadets on each department deck and engine, to their
respective section also. This questionnaire will serve as our reference
to answer the statement of the problem given in chapter 3. This
questionnaire will also provide to the main topic the benefits of
conducive-to-learning facilities.

Questionnaire:

Note: Facilities that we are talking about here in NTMA are the libraries,
seamanship, physics and chemistry laboratories, smoke house, swimming
pool, gymnasium, computer lab etc and equipments such as sextants and
radio communication equipment such things)
 Chapter 4
Presentations, Interpretation and Analysis of data

I. Statistical Treatment

In this study, as researcher I used the weighted arithmetic mean in

analyzing the data that I have gathered using the questionnaire that I have given
and distributed to the cadet respondents. The formula of weighted arithmetic mean
that I use is:

f5 + f4 + f3 + f2 +f1

Wm =
N

Where:

Wm = weighted mean
f = frequency of response
N = total number of respondents
 Point Score Point Interval Descriptive Rating
(D.R)
5 4.20 – 5.00 Strongly Agree (S.A)

4 3.41 – 4.19 Agree (A)

3 2.60 – 3.39 Neutral (N)

2 1.80 – 2.59 Disagree (D)

1 1.00 – 1.79 Strongly Disagree (S.D)

Presentation of Data

Table 1
Percentage of Yes or No Questions as perceived by the Cadet
Response

Yes No Yes No
1 34 6 85% 15%
2 38 2 95% 5%
3 37 3 92.5% 7.5%
4 37 3 92.5% 7.5%
5 20 20 50% 50%
6 35 5 87.5% 2.5%
7 40 - 100% -
8 40 - 100% -
9 11 29 27.5% 72.5%
1 32 8 80% 20%
0
 Table 1 shows the number of people and percentage of it which
they answer with “Yes or No”, with the corresponding questions. The
table shows the numbers 7 & 8 as the highest percentage of “Yes”
answer which is 100%. While in the other hand number 9 got the
lowest percentage of “Yes” answer with a percentage of 27.5%.
However number 5 has an equal percentage with “Yes & No”.

The Bar Graph Shows the relationship of percentage of “Yes

and No”
 This bar graph presents the percentage of Yes and No
response of the cadet respondents showing the relationship of it.
Questions number 7 & 8 got a perfect 100 percent of “Yes” and
number 9 as the lowest of the “Yes” response. However number 5
receive an equal percent for both “Yes and No”

Table 2
Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of Level of
Agreement as Perceived by the Cadet Respondent

Questio S.A A N D S.D ∑ Wm D.R

ns
#1 17 16 7 0 0 40 4.25 S.A
#2 10 22 8 0 0 40 4.05 A
#3 8 16 16 0 0 40 3.8 A
#4 10 16 14 0 0 40 3.9 A
#5 14 17 9 0 0 40 4.125 A
#6 19 16 5 0 0 40 4.35 S.A
#7 10 15 13 2 0 40 3.825 A
#8 7 21 10 2 0 40 3.825 A
#9 12 14 18 1 0 40 4.3 S.A
#10 11 16 13 0 0 40 3.95 A
#11 8 21 11 0 0 40 3.925 A
#12 17 13 9 1 0 40 4.15 A
#13 23 14 3 0 0 40 4.5 S.A
#14 24 12 4 0 0 40 4.5 S.A
#15 11 19 10 0 0 40 4.025 A

The table 2 shows the frequency and weighted mean of

response of the cadet respondents. Question numbers 1, 6, 9, 13 and
14 showing the weighted mean of 4.25, 4.35, 4.3, 4.5 and 4.5
respectively which are the number 13 and 14 question as a highest
weighted mean of 4.5 for both item. While in the other hand with the
item lowest weighted mean of 3.8, item number 3
 The Bar Graph shows the weighted mean of every question

According to the graph, question numbers 13 and 14 as the

highest among the rest of the question which agrees to the question
that some facilities are made and related to technical subjects; and
the school facilities help them to learn some application on board.
While question number 3 is the lowest among the rest questions,
which states that the school facilities makes their school work faster
and easier.
Chapter 5

Summary of Data

Summary

Starting with the question of what benefits do school facilities in

NTMA have and offer to the cadets of NTMA? Let me discuss the
facilities in form of education and some references like the JATF
Training equipment magazine support the topic which makes us
formulate statement of the problem as of what benefits do school
facilities have, the advantage and disadvantage of it, possible effects
of it to the cadets and if it is really conducive to learning.

This gives importance to the cadets of NTMA because it will

serve them as an fact of evidence that these school facilities really
contributes to the educational attainment of the cadets and help to
the learning process and studying habits of the cadets. As for this
topic it will only covers the school facilities inside the academy of
what they contribute learning of the cadets.

With the problems that I have, put me on a hypothesis that

these school faculties like the laboratories, the classrooms,
instruments and equipments that the cadets using, the library, and
some other thing that may contribute to the learning’s of the cadets;
gives an aid in the studies and way of studying of the cadets which
will help them thoroughly understand either general of technical
subjects. Another thing is that it will give a lot of option of how they
are going to approach their studies, school work, projects and
research of any subject matter as required which will may make them
easier and/or maybe faster for them to learn and understand the
lessons.

For this topic the cadets alone are the respondents which they
answers a two type questionnaire a “Yes and No” and a closed type
question of agreement which they answer respectively which I think
will support to the main purpose of the topic and will answer to the
statement of the problem as well.

Conclusion

All in all the graphs shows great result which answers some
critical questions that will surely help and support the significance of
the study.

In the research study all the respondents agrees that the school
facilities helped them in their studies and benefited them. Despite
that half of the respondents say that school facilities are not always
available for them; and that would make another problem because of
the availability of the school facilities. Another thing is below 30% of
the respondents say that they depend in school facilities while almost
all with 95% say that school facilities are important and necessary.

Respondents say and as the graph shows that school facilities

are conducive to learning. As for the benefits of these said facilities,
the respondents agrees that the lesson and/or topic given to them
makes it easier, clearer and can be thoroughly understand the
lessons and/or topic Another thing is that it gives them an urge to
study more that he facilities make their school work faster and easier.
 Therefore it is safe to say that NTMA’s school facilities do have
benefits and it is conducive to learning of the cadets here in NTMA.

Recommendation

As for this research study, it will need further more study. The
researcher needs to find another way to answer the statement of the
problem for more accurate result. The researcher may formulate
different type of the questionnaire, different series of test and/or
different approach to find a helpful response for the study. The
researcher needs to focus more on what probable benefits will the
school facilities offer to the cadets and how will it be attained for the
significance and purpose of the study itself.
Bibliography

A. Internet

http://www.iub.edu.bd

http://scholar.google.com.ph/

http://www.google.com.ph/

http://yahoo.com/

www.appa.org

http;//www.amc.edu.au

http;//www.edfacilties.org/pubs

C. Online Journal

(Schneider, 2002-11-00) (Schneider, Do School Facilities Affect

Academic Outcomes?, 2002)