Action Research on Tardiness

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REGION XII KIDAPAWAN CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Roxas St., Kidapawan City

ACTION RESEARCH DESIGN

ABSTRACT
Punctuality is one of the virtues beyond reproach. Much of the time and wealth will be saved if this virtue will be carried out to the system of every responsible citizen. Punctuality will encompass all of the positive action in all aspects. Though it was less appreciated in other situations like productivity against punctuality, none the less, it is still very vital in situations that needed it most. This study will determine the factors affecting students in their daily routine during school days. Always and often times being tardy in the flag ceremony, in attending classes after recess time in the morning and afternoon class sessions and during the first period in the afternoon class session. There are observed instances that during their transfer of room in their specialization subjects and other activities that needs outdoor activities, they are behind schedule in attending to it.

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BACKGROUND/STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

There is about 20% of the IV-Pisces Class in Kidapawan City National High School who are always late in attending the flag ceremony as well as in attending to their respective classes. This problem had accumulated from tolerable to habitual state and it has a significant impact in their performance at school. Most of the class had been influenced by their peers and this would be embedded in their mind pattern until college and ultimately to their vocation and their adventures in life. Other students had just the difficulty in optimizing their time as their subject related activities grows in bulk. Reported incidents on online games cyber addiction were prominent and this usually happens after lunch break. To figure it out, students set aside their precedence to study and learn thus the proponent of this research had to find out. Moreover, the researchers intention is to isolate the primary reason of tardiness and proactive

intervention will be executed so as to curtail if it will not utterly do away with the quandaries. As the school inculcates discipline to have a world class graduates, globally competitive and well rounded individuals, the researcher had in mind to unearth the reason behind of this punctuality virtue which is annoyingly, losing its ground.

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BREAKDOWN OF PROBABLE CAUSES

Distance between residence and school Sending/Reading SMS/Calling/chatting with friends thru mobile phone Sleeping habit/ TV shows obsession Online/LAN games/Social Networking Sites(SNS) cyber compulsion Financial Constraints/Standard of Living Family Values on punctuality Mode of transportation Traffic load of the route to school Subject/class related cause Teacher related cause Peer Influence/Camaraderie Bullying/ stress factor Classroom supervision

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SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The study will be conducted within the class of Fourth Year Pisces students. This group of student belongs to Science Curriculum Program of Kidapawan City National High School and considered as outstanding students of the Fourth year level. This group of student, total to 61 individuals, was also under the advisory of the researcher and the survey questions will be delimited to obtaining primary and secondary reasons of tardiness as well as assessing related factors underlying therewith. Information acquired and provided by students will be used to confirm or negate the feasible causes which were earlier stated. The result of the survey will then contribute insight in planning and drafting of the solutions in addressing the said problems being identified that needs appropriate action. An Action plan will be the final output of the said research to be implemented upon approval of the school administrator. The researcher will use a sampling method with inquiries which is not answerable by yes or no. The researcher arbitrarily selects this group of students for they well represent a typical student which his/her primary aim is to learn and excel in school. Moreover, the problem on tardiness was very observable in this group of students while they are supposedly being a model to other students.

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ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS RELATED TO SURVEY

The survey was done utilizing the survey questions (please see attached Survey Sheet) and the result was tallied and will be scrutinized accordingly. The complexity of the Survey Sheet was intentionally prepared to extract valid and trustworthy answers from the subject population. The explicit outcome of the answers will be categorized in factors that affect their punctuality values in attending to their classes or other learning related activities. This will be classified as Internal and External factors and further be classified according to the details of each factor. The elucidation of the findings will be presented in non-statistical and technical languages which will generally benefit the readers as well as the subject of the study. Thus, the presentation will be done according to the intention of the researcher to shed light on this tricky rationalization. INTERNAL FACTOR The table below is representing the personal factor of every student which comprehensively supports the reasons in being late with; attending to classes, flag ceremony, and submitting paper works, etc. This information gives us the detail on how they spend their residual time after classes or while class is going on. This clearly shows that friends/peer influence plays vital role in students life; secondary is the compulsion with TV shows and the pre-occupation of mobile phone to students attention as well as the household chores that was understandably assigned to young adolescents in their share of tasks at home.

TIME MANAGEMENT

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The table below (figure 1.2) supports the leniency of students in their study. Basically, a sound mind needs adequate sleep to function well especially in learning lessons at school. Adequacy on the number of hours of sleep per individual vary by its age category. A typical student in adolsecent stage needs 8-10 hours of sleep to have a keener sense of understanding the lessons all through out the day. A student who have a complete 10 hours of undisturbed and sounding sleep was generally gaining outstanding results in academic excellence. The graph below represent the sleep habit of the subject which was generally falls at 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm. If a student would sleep at 10:00 pm and should wake up at 5:00 am, therefore, the student had only 7 hours of sleep, this 1 to 3 hours depravation of sleep has significant effect on the learning period of every student. This would affect the mood, span of attention and mental aptitude.

Figure 1.2 Figure below (Figure 1.3) represents a small fraction on student outlook with respect to their study habit and school attendance. This was noted by the researcher for this small but dominant few had made significant stimulus in students who are easily influenced because of varied reasons. As the primary source of education, the parents should ultimately understand the right of every child for education and underlying obligations related therein. Parents and or guardians who are being complacent would greatly affect childs performance at school. Valuing the education has more on affirmative impact on the chart below with the students who are positively reinforced by parents.

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EXTERNAL FACTORS
To give due consideration on other factors that affects the schedules of the student, the researcher made a survey on the following:

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Figure 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 represents the external factors that affect tardiness of the students. Figure 1.4 states the distance of home to school and figure 1.5 will represent the mode of transportation/ utility to reach school and the time allotted to travel to school was shown at figure 1.6. In figure 1.4, it shows that 36% of the students were living at the distance of more than 2 kilometers and most these students had tricycle as the mode of transportation and they had to travel more or less 20 to 30 minutes to reach school. With these figure representation, a student would likely be late for school since the time allotted for travel is almost or half of the hour, they need to wake up early and prepare. A typical student needs 1.5 hours to prepare and travel to school, they should wake up as early as 5:00 am to have ample time for preparation and allocate time threshold for travel if the student aspires punctuality. Figure below shows the information on the students attitude towards punctuality in attending their subjects. The information is a negative reaction towards the subject thus affecting attendance and punctuality. Ranking first is the Science subject and followed by mathematics. The negative attitude towards this subject is mainly brought by dislike of the subject itself.

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SUMMARY OF DATA INTERPRETATION

The figure above confirms the hypothesis of having students at 20 % (+/-) who are being late in attending the classes, flag ceremony and other learning related activities. The figure further states the factors that significantly af fect the students performance at school. The researcher made an extra mile in identifying other factors which might affect the attitude towards learning by including the information gathering which was shown at figures 1.7 and 1.8. There was an indication that student had significantly disliked the subjects of Science and Mathematics and might be the reason for leniency in their study. The aversion towards the matter is merely on the subject and has nothing to do with the Subject Teacher. Moreover, there are students who fairly rated their teacher that might affect their performance at school. There is a student who was bullied in the classroom, a parent who negatively adjudged the education privileges of a child and a student who blatantly disliked the teacher, the number of student in this study with strikingly averse situation from the other student is less significant to negligible percentage. Furthermore, internal factors are to be the focus in making appropriate actions by the researcher. Giving weight in time management and valuing the virtue of punctuality.

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ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION

The student should be guided in their time management if the reason is the distance, financial constraints on the fare, traffic load of the route and mode of transportation. An arranged home visitation to personally confer with the parents or guardians about the situation of the student if the primary reason was financial support for the fare likewise read-through the family ideals in punctuality and the attitude towards Child Education. Same feat will be done to students who are well buffered with extra cash spent for cyber compulsion.

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Evaluate the student regarding its learning difficulty to the concerned subject and confer to the subject teacher vis--vis the circumstances. Concrete action is to conduct an initial Multiple Intelligence Assessment to every student before the class begins early in June to determine the learning difficulties and or learning styles. Upon verifying the learning styles, the teacher will look into the design of lesson planning to address the situation.

4. Look into the situation of the peer influence as well as bullying of classmates that might be the reason of deplorable attitude towards learning. 5. Faithfully device an operant conditioning to give rewards to those who are early comers and reinforce consistency all through-out the school year. 6. Organize a peer counselor among students. Selected students with venerable outlook in students life, behave well in campus, renowned for leadership capability and have a strong interpersonal skill. They will be assigned per problem -subject group or individual.

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ACTION
Strategy 1. Multiple Intelligence Assessment in June(every school year) Time Management lecture/workshop with the students in June (every school year) 3. After the MI Assessment, cull the prospect students (Strong Interpersonal Skills) to be peer counselors and orient them in their assigned task. 4. Reward Psychology Data to be Collected Inner strength, learning difficulties and weaknesses Weekly/Daily planner of every student Background check and confirmation of the interpersonal skills Data Analysis/Interpretation Percentage

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5. Student Journal and Process folio

Early Bird Frequency Attendance Report Family values and Percentage financial capability

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REGION XII KIDAPAWAN CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Roxas St., Kidapawan City

QUESTIONNAIRE
(STUDENT) Name of Respondent:_________________________________ Year and Section: ____________ Directions: Please check/tick the box that suits your choice of answer provided for each question. Please accomplish honestly all of the questions and the information will be treated highly confidential. There are no wrong answers. 1. Is Kidapawan City National High School is the only school nearest from your home? yes no

2. How far is your home from school? Less than 500 meters More than 500 meters but less that 1 kilometer More than 1 kilometer More than 2 kilometers

3. What is your mode of transportation? Bus/Van/Jeepney/Multicab Tricycle Motorcycle (owned) Extended Motorcycle (for hire/rented) Sent and fetched by family vehicle Leg Power (walking/hiking) 4. How long does it takes for you to travel from home to school? Approximately 10 minutes Approximately 20 minutes Approximately 30 minutes Approximately 45 minutes Approximately 1 hour More than 1 hour 5. How long does it take for you to transfer from one room to another in your next subject period? Approximately 3 minutes Approximately 5 minutes Almost 10 minutes More than 15 minutes 6. The subject that I dont like most was/were; (you can tick more than 1) English Pilipino Mathematics (Physics, Calculus, Advanced Algebra, etc.) Science Araling Panlipunan MAPEH None of the above 7. I dont like the subject because ; I dont like the teacher I dont like my classmate/s Somebody is bullying me from that class I did not like the subject itself 8. Time Management for me is; for the old and mature person tiresome, boring and redundant daily chore

is a virtue to be valued and kept by students respecting the time of others helping me to accomplish many tasks 9. My parents value my education as; their only treasure for me to inherit learning things I needed on my own as they did in the past an alibi of not helping home chores just sending me to school like my neighbors do expensive and sever the daily budget for food and other primary needs

10. I spend most of my time in; watching my favorite TV show/s playing online/LAN game/s working to earn money to subsidize my education hanging around with my friends sending/reading SMS/ talking/chatting with my friends doing household chores 11. The reason why I am late in attending my classes; working with other requirements distance of the specialization lecture area from my class room receiving calls/reading /answering text messages had to finish my snacks/lunch attending my extra-curricular activities 12. After almost ten months with the subject I am learning; I learned a lot of things about it I am picking informative things about the subject a thing or two nothing and I am not interested at all to do complacent measures just to pass this subject 13. I go to bed at; 7:45 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 10:00 pm after midnight 14. My subject teacher is;

skillful, efficient and effective in teaching the lesson is good in his/her field of expertise giving us load of homework/tasks which is beyond our capability a symbol of authority and tenacious funny lackluster and needs inspiration