Effects of the Bad Weather to Academic Performance Grade 12 ABM Students in Bestlink College of the Philippines School Year 2018-2019

Abstract

Weather is what happens in the atmosphere at any time. It seems that when the weather is bad, fewer students attend classes because they feel the troubled dealing with bad weather. Weather is uncontrollable but finding ways to address its effects on the lives of people is surely possible. This study aims to assess the effects of bad weather in the academic performance of Grade 12 Accountancy, Business and Management Students and to help them address its negative effects. A qualitative method was used in the study. Using the descriptive research design, it focused on the assessment of three academic variables identified as being affected by bad weather such as Attendance, Performance tasks, and Written Works. The data were gathered by distributing questionnaires to the target respondents. The results of the study revealed that bad weather negatively affects the academic performance of the Grade 12 ABM students in terms of the following: (1) Attendance –during bad weather, students are demotivated to go to school and they tend to be absent in class while others wait for class suspension announcements before deciding to go to school. This causes bad and incomplete records of the students’ attendance. (2) Performance Tasks –class suspensions due to bad weather lessens the students' performance tasks. On the other hand, students receive a lot of academic tasks to cover the days of class suspensions. (3) Written works –bad weather may somehow help the students finished other academic tasks at home but it delays class discussions, making the students late in catching up with written works. The results show the need for the school to find more effective ways of catching up on the late lessons due to class suspensions during bad weather. Bad weather is uncontrollable but effective ways of helping the students to stay on track of the lessons are possible. Conducting make-up classes and giving time extensions in daily schedules are helpful for the students to back the skipped lessons or to tackle the topics not discussed during bad weather. The school, together with the teachers, can also give assignments or tasks using social media or online access activities; even if there is bad weather, students can still comply with time on the activities. A further study is highly recommended to create more effective ways of dealing with the negative effects of bad weather on the academic performance of the students.