Challenges Faced by Senior High School Student Leaders Towards Academic Performance at Bestlink College of the Philippines

Vol.3, No.1D

Abstract

Student leaders face a lot of challenges when dealing with their responsibilities. It can affect their academic performance. This study will provide strategies and recommendations to help student leaders maintain academic excellence. This study aims to identify the challenges faced towards the academic performance of the selected HUMSS senior high student leaders in Bestlink College of the Philippines. The basis of this study is the Hexagon Theory-student Leadership Development written by Amirianzadeh. It discusses how the development of this generation affects student leadership with a comprehensive attitude and systematic view that has considered the factors affecting student leadership development from individual, group and social aspects. Based on the theory, the researcher concluded that there are challenges that the student leaders faced during the pace of this development. The challenges are the factors affecting the student towards their academic performance.

The researchers used a descriptive method as the research design. The instrument used an online questionnaire to gather data. The researchers also searched for related literature and studies. A purposive sampling method was used to select participants, and an online questionnaire was used as the research instrument for data collection. The school student government positions included in the study are the mayors, governors, senators, and executive. The respondents will be limited purposively to forty-two (42) HUMSS student leaders in senior high school at Bestlink College of the Philippines. The respondents mostly experience the challenges they face towards academic performance in extracurricular activities, affecting their financial stability, time for study, and more tension. The researchers concluded that the student leaders faced different challenges that affected the academic performance of the HUMSS senior high student leaders. The research developed a basis for crafting recommendations that will help the respondents face the challenges towards their academics in terms of their time management, academic pursuits, leadership roles and extracurricular activities. The results reveal that many student leaders encountered different challenges and still managed to do their different responsibilities. Undeniably, being a student leader can cause different challenges to a student's academic performance.