Factors Affecting the Academic Performance of the BSED-Science Major During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Bestlink College of the Philippines
Vol.3, No.1C
Abstract
One of the main aims of an educational institution is to provide a quality education for its students. In doing so, they must address the factors affecting the student's academic performance. Educational institutions must continue to evaluate which factors affect their students' performance. Still, due to the sudden change in school setting from traditional to distance learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more difficult for the school to address the issue.
As a consequence, more than a billion learners have been affected worldwide. Among this number are over 28 million Filipino learners across academic levels who must stay home and comply with the Philippine government’s quarantine measures (UNESCO, 2020). Since then, the education sector has shifted from traditional to online classes. In this mechanism, students must take online classes only at home instead of in their classrooms on a school campus. This shift led students to adapt to a new scheme, new learning strategies, a new environment, new study habits, and, of course, new challenges. In entering a new educational approach, factors arise and must be addressed in dealing with every student's academic performance: Internet Connection, Environmental Factors, Parental Factors, and Teacher Factors.
This study utilized the descriptive method design for the investigation in collecting information about the factors affecting the academic performance of BSED science majors at Bestlink College of the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic: an analysis.
The descriptive method is a purposive process of gathering, analyzing, classifying and tabulating data about the prevailing conditions, practices, beliefs, processes, trends and cause-effect relationships and making adequate and accurate interpretations about such data with or without statistical methods (Lim, 2009).
The respondents will be gathered from 20 each second-year, third-year and fourth-year majors in Science at Bestlink College of the Philippines. The researcher will ensure that the chosen students of each year in BSED Major in Science will qualify for the following conditions: 1) the student experiences a change of education. 2) They experience factors that affect their academic performance, and 3) those students facing and encountering the COVID-19 pandemic. The last condition is to know how the COVID-19 pandemic affects their academic performance.
