Tardiness and its Relationship with the Academic Performance of Grade 12 Gas Students in Ettmnhs - Ishs S.Y. 2018 -2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Available literature presents that students who arrive at school early have an advantage over classmates who stumble through the door after class has begun and that consistent unexcused tardiness can mean short-term penalties and lifelong consequences. Though there's no question on the validity of tardiness as a school offense and a possible behavioral problem, limited studies are available on the relationship between being late and the academic performance among high school students.

METHODS

The descriptive research study made use of systematic sampling with 30 respondents coming from the General Academic Strand. The respondents were selected according to the pattern of their attendance whether they are consistently coming to class early or coming in late. The academic performance of the respondents were based on the average grade of the participants during the 1st semester.

RESULTS

Scanning over the academic averages of the respondents, it was noted that those who come in early have higher averages than those who come in late. However, correlating the attendance pattern of the respondents (whether they are early or late) with their academic performance using Pearson R, resulted with a value of 0.4334 which implies that being early or late has a low positive correlation with the academic performance.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the result of the Pearson R calculation, it was concluded that coming in early or late during the first period has no significant relationship with one's academic grade for the entire semester. In other words, a student can still have considerably passing grades even though he/she exhibits a pattern of tardiness. On the other hand, a student can still fail a semester even though he/she exhibits a pattern of being early. However, further validation of this finding should still be done by delving into an investigation focusing only on the first period subjects, as well as compliance in doing school requirements.