Quanti-Quali Research Outputs of Diffun National High School: An Evaluation and Review

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Research is a careful study that is done to find and report new knowledge about something, and action is done to clarify and solve such issues. If research is not properly undertaken, then its credibility might be greatly affected. Thus, this research has the intention to evaluate and review research outputs at Diffun National High School.

METHODS

In the pursuit of the study, survey design was employed. A structured questionnaire was used to gather the needed data for the study. This instrument is designed to assess the respondents' knowledge in constructing a research manuscript. The questionnaire was subjected to pilot testing. The result of the Cronbach alpha was .827 which indicates a very good description of its level of internal consistency. One viable and appropriate action is undertaken to validate and strengthen the data gathered was through the conduct of reviewing data on the rating of research outputs and results of selected researches related to the subject of the study. Simple random sampling was used in the selection of the 173 respondents from the total population of Grade 12 students.

RESULTS

Students were not skillful on knowledge on discussing legal bases in the re-investigation of the problem, explaining the situation through data and statistics, and identifying theories. Furthermore, presenting major findings, synthesizing literature, constructing suitable instrument, identifying statistical tools, supporting statistical data using literature or studies, providing a brief conclusion, giving recommendations based on the drawn conclusion, and presenting references used in the review were identified by the students where they find themselves as not proficient. There are significant results from the responses of the students to describe the level of their knowledge in preparing research manuscript when grouped by their strand. Reviewed data showed that preparing research design, data collection and data analysis needs improvement. This data was supported by a research output of student discussing that the common errors in research papers of the senior students include inappropriate research design, constructing the questionnaire, and filtering out the gathered data.

DISCUSSIONS

The result of the study shows in general that most of the difficulties of the students are along with a selection of theories, synthesizing reviewed literature, selection of design, data collection, data analysis, drawing conclusion, and giving recommendations. Komba (2015) summarized these as academic or technical writing skills in his study.