Time Optimization through Improvised Planner

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

With the implementation ofDepartment of Education Order No. 55, s. 2016, some students who failed to comply with the given requirements were given with optional tasks in order for them to be accepted in the STEM strand. In order to address the time management of the STEM students, the researchers required the Grade 11 STEM students to make an improvised planner where they have to write things they have to accomplish on a daily basis and to be passed weekly to the researchers for monitoring. This strategy is based on the behaviorist learning theory. The weekly updating of the planner as well as the strict monitoring is a repetitive practice; thus, it is expected that their automatic response is developed on the immediate performance of the tasks and accomplish things ahead of the expected due date.

METHODS

This study utilized descriptive method to analyze the effect of developing time optimization on the academic performance of the Grade 11 STEM students. The study was conducted among the 20 Grade 11 STEM students of Alupay National High School during the school year 2017 -2018. They were exposed to a monitored repetitive practice of updating their improvised planner. The general average of the students during the second semester served as basis of their performance to assess whether the application of the behaviorist learning theory is effective in their optimization of time.

RESULTS

Through behaviorist learning theory, it was expected that through a repetitive action in the form of the improvised planner, the students learned how to optimize their time and improve their academic performance. Meanwhile, based on the study conducted, the researchers have found out that the students improved in their academic performance during the second semester of the school year 2017-2018.

DISCUSSIONS

A repetitive action in the form of the improvised planner could be a great help to further instill time optimization among students which will later on improve their academic performance. With this, the researchers have planned to devise a standardized improvised planner for the students containing the necessary information that will be beneficial for their academics as well as facts about the value of time which would try to instill the importance of time optimization among the students.