Impact of Grade 9 Students' Behavior in the Academic Performance in Araling Panlipunan at Wenceslao Trinidad Memorial National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Most of the students failed to attain this successful learning. One of the main reasons is their behavior towards the subject area. In this study, the researcher wants to identify the role of students' behavior in their academic achievements in Araling Panlipunan subject.

METHODS

The respondents of the study are selected Grade 9 students who are struggling in learning Araling Panlipunan's concepts. Learners were selected based on their previous final grade and first semester grades in the subject. Respondents were selected through random sampling.

RESULTS

It has been found out that the most common students' misbehavior towards Araling Panlipunan subject is lack of interest in the lessons, their inattentiveness in the class discussion, not motivated to learn and failure to do subject's tasks. Also, that the reasons why students are behaving that way are because they are having difficulties in memorizing the concepts of Araling Panlipunan, in coping with the teacher's strategy and they are not motivated to learn. Lastly, the students are usually having low or failing grades in Araling Panlipunan and their academic performance was greatly affected by their behavior towards the subject.

DISCUSSIONS

From the informal interview done by the researcher, it has been noticed that the students have different untoward behaviors during the Araling Panlipunan class. Some of it is inattentiveness in the discussion, failure to do all task assigned by the teacher failure to answer home tasks and not motivated to learn from all the topics. While, the reasons for students' misbehavior in Araling Panlipunan class are having a hard time in memorization, as to mention the dates and events in the history, the places in geography and the complicated concepts in economics, having learning difficulties basically because of teaching strategies used. From the study, the researcher found that the greatest impact of students' misbehavior in Araling Panlipunan is their incapability to cope up with every lesson, their incapability to comply with the subject requirements and that their level of achievement in the subject is very low, that they got very low or failing grades.