Psychological Aspects: Key to Academic Success of Grade I2 General Academic Strand (GAS) Students of Cavite National Science High School for SY 2017 -2018

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

A success or failure often triggers us to search for the factors that explain the outcome. There are many causal factors associated with anygiven event. In the case of educators, causal factors salient to academic success or failure are of particular interest. This action research study mainly aims to determine the psychological aspects that serve as key to the academic success of Grade 12 General Academic Strand (GAS) students at Cavite National Science High School for school year 2017-2018.

METHODS

The twenty-eight (28) students of Grade 12 GAS were used as the respondents of the study. Quantitative and qualitative methods were employed inthe study. The descriptive-correlational type of research was used to gather factual information and in determining the extent of relationship between the variables. Survey questionnaires were distributed that contains the demographic profile and with questions set by categories namely: Student-related and Teacher-related aspects. The Likert Scale was used to rate each statement in the questionnaire while to determine the responses of the respondents under each statement of the psychological aspects, the weighted mean was used. The Pearson product moment correlation (r) was used to determine the relationship between the variables

RESULTS

Results showed that for student's profile, participants are mostly female, ages between 17 and above, majority of the religion are Roman Catholic, with the most family members ranges from 5 and above; and with family income ranges from 10,001 -15,000. Student-related aspects (interest of the students) are significantly related to the student's success with a mean value of 3.78. The results of the ranking provided confirmation that certain factors related to the student are consistently cited as the most important when related to academic success. Pearson product moment coefficient (r) confirmed that there is significant relationship between psychological factors to the academic performance of the students wherein the r value is 0.941 is greater than the critical value of ±.0.634.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the findings of the study, the psychological aspects (student-related and teacher-related) really serve as key to the academic success of the students. Since academic success was only confined in two aspects; therefore, other indicators may also be considered for different students may have different definitions of academic success.