SPUP Graduate School Research Journal is the official graduate school research journal of St. Paul University Philippines located in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, Philippines.
Income Generating Enterprises Assessment of Isabela State University, Cabagan Campus: Basis for Proposed Management Processes and Policy Reforms
The descriptive method of research and documentary analysis were utilized to assess the Income Generating Enterprises of Isabela State University, Cabagan Campus: A Basis for Proposed Management Processes and Policy Reforms. A structured questionnaire and interview guide were utilized as principal instruments to the 30 participants involving (10) faculty members, two (2) students, eight (8) support staff and ten (10) blue-collar workers from the non-teaching personnel. Frequency counts, percentage, weighted mean, and t-test or One-Way Analysis of variance were used for data analysis. Results unveiled that the profile of the participants suggested that qualifications of the personnel/staff of each of the projects must be taken into consideration. Improvement in knowledge, skills and training must likewise be considered. Income Generating Enterprises of the Isabela State University, Cabagan Campus is currently in a very challenging situation. Remarkably, the enterprise is facing a significant challenge in almost all aspects of management– administrative, financial, among others. Project processes, specifically, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation are major areas of concern that need immediate attention and action to save the entire enterprise. If these problems continue to exist, then the organization as a whole will perpetually suffer. Thus, with the current state of the enterprise, major revision and change are required to completely eradicate all of the enumerated problems. Reconstruction of the enterprise is a possible alternative solution that must be taken into consideration.
Income generating enterprise, proposed management processes, policy reforms
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Personality Traits and Dynamics of Cyberbullying: Basis for a Proposed Intervention Program
The descriptive quantitative research aimed to look into the personality traits, dynamics and effects of Cyberbullying among the High School students of St. Scholastica’ s Academy Marikina School Year 2014 -2015. Slovin’s Formula and purposive sampling techniques were utilized in identifying and selecting participants who are knowledgeable about and experienced the study of interest. The Self-made Cyberbullying Survey and the High School Personality Questionnaire, a self–report inventory that measures 14 personality characteristics were used as data gathering tools. Further, frequency and percentage, mean, sten score, Chi-square test, ANOVA and t -test were used for data analysis. From the results of the study, it was assessed that cyberbully participants have a “very low” to “low” experience of the forms of Cyberbullying while the cyberbullied participants have a “low” to “moderate” experience yet both groups of participants still experience the negative effect. Accordingly, flaming is the most commonly used way to victimize the object of Cyberbullying, and the foremost reasons why the participants engage into Cyberbullying are for the bullies to have fun and to avoid face to face confrontation. Hence, the participants felt sad and became conscious of their behavior after the Cyberbullying experience. Thus, the bully participants are more assertive, dominant, individualistic and self-reliant while the bullied participants are submissive, conforming, insecure and self-indulgent.
Personality traits, dynamics of cyberbullying, cyberbully, cyber bullied
Incidence of Bullying in Basic Education Unit of St. Paul University Philippines: Basis for Intervention Program Development
This descriptive research sought to investigate on the incidence of bullying in the Basic Education Unit of St. Paul University Philippines and subsequently an intervention program will be developed to prevent the recurrence of the identified cases and the occurrence of new cases. Eight pupils were determined by the BEU Guidance and Counselling Center and the Student Welfare Committee of St. Paul University Philippines as perpetrators of the bullying cases filed for AY 2013-2014 to AY 2014- 2015: there were eight victims of the said perpetrators, eight parent representatives for both the perpetrators and victims, eight classmates of both the perpetrators and victims, and eight of the teachers of both the perpetrators and victims. Narrative reports and interviews were utilized for data gathering tools. Frequency count and percentages were used for data analysis. Based on the accounts of the perpetrators, attention seeking and susceptibility to irritation are the factors to bullying. On the part of the victims, they are bullied because they have “low self-confidence” or they are “shy.” The most common factors that the parents expressed is a reason for their children’s bullying behavior is the “lack of attention.” Most of the classmates of the perpetrators reasoned out that the latter bully because of peer pressure; friends and they are seeking attention from others. On the part of the victims, their classmates claimed that they are bullied because they tend to become sensitive. The teachers observed that the perpetrators bully because they lack empathy for others. On the part of the victims, the teachers observed that they are bullied because they tend to have “low self-confidence” or “low self-esteem.”
Bullying, intervention program development, bullying behavior, bullying cases
Women’s Autonomy and Extent of Utilization of the Maternal and Child Health Care in Pukesmas Kongbeng, Indonesia
The descriptive-correlational research sought to assess the relationship between the extent of women’s autonomy and maternal and child health-care utilization in Puskesmas Kongbeng, Indonesia. The participants were the 210 mothers; 30 mothers from each village. Modified questionnaire patterned from Indonesia Demographic Health Survey (IDHS, 2012) was employed for instrument. Using frequency count and percentage, mean, and chi-square for data analysis results unveiled that women in Puskesmas Kongbeng area have an active role in decision making about theirs and family’s healthcare, economy household, food, and about having a child. The differences in the extent of autonomy in decision making have been affected by the number of living children. Age and work status of women have affected the extent of autonomy among women in Puskesmas Kongbeng in freedom of movement, which means that Indonesian government programs for women empowerment have been achieved. However, Indonesia is a Patriarchal country which means that most of the Indonesian women show respect to their husbands as leaders in the household. They can go out to other places on their own, but they respect the decision of their husbands before leaving. The differences in age, ethnicity, number of living children and educational attainment affect the utilization of antenatal care services. The differences in age, ethnicity, gross monthly income and number of living children affect the utilization of intrapartum/childbirth services. Lastly, the differences in age, religion, ethnicity, gross monthly income, the number of living children and educational attainment affect the extent of child health care utilization. The extent of women’s autonomy is a significant contributory factor on their extent of utilization of maternal and child health care services in Puskesmas Kongbeng.
Women’s autonomy, maternal care, child health care, neonatal care, maternal mortality
Oral English Language Skills of Grade 6 of St. Theresa’s College Quezon City
The study investigated on the oral English language proficiency of the Grade 6 pupils of St. Theresa’s College, Quezon City for the A.Y 2011-2012. It applied both the quantitative and qualitative approaches. Self-Assessment Questionnaire, Oral test, interview questions, rubric for the Oral Proficiency Test and checklists were employed as research instruments. There are two groups of participants in the study, namely: the eighty-three (83) pupils who were taken from each of the seven sections through random sampling and the three (3) teachers at the Grade 6 level, including the researcher herself, who served as raters or evaluators. Frequency and percentages as well as the thematic analysis were used for data analysis. Results unveiled that the pupils’ assessment of their oral English language proficiency level is within the “established” level while on teachers’ assessment of their pupils’ oral English language proficiency level is within the “proficiency level 3” notably that pupils “commit few errors in the pronunciation of the critical sounds,” “speak with few errors in syllable stress and does not clearly emphasize content words in a sentence,” “does not blend some English sounds,” makes few errors in phrasing” and “slightly confused with the use of the intonation patterns.” This implies a call for reinforcement and enhancement in the higher level. This, therefore, poses a challenge to the high school teachers as they teach speech to these students. The study further assessed that the pupils’ difficulty in expressing themselves in English is an indication of their non-mastery of the skills in English regarding accent, fluency, confidence, phonological and grammar structures. All these bring about ineffective communication since listeners do not master the oral English language skills. Therefore, enhancement of these skills is deemed necessary to make themselves competent and confident speakers of the English language.
Oral english language skills, accent, fluency, phonological structures, grammar structures
Effectiveness of Enhanced Community-Based Program for Hypertension in Knowledge, Level of Adherence to Therapeutic Regimens and Blood Pressure of Hypertensive Patients
This study sought to determine the effectiveness of the enhanced community-based program for hypertension in the degree of knowledge, level of adherence and blood pressure of the Hypertensive patients. The study was conducted at a Parish-owned community in Barangay Lumang Bayan, Plaridel, Bulacan. The study utilized randomized, two-group, experimental design. A total of 30 hypertensive patient participants participated in the study which was divided into two groups, namely: control (15) and experimental groups (15). The researcher utilized the following research instrument tools, namely: Degree of Knowledge (DOK) pretest/posttest tool; Treatment, Medication, Activity, and Diet (TMAD) adherence tool; and OMRON digital wrist blood pressure manometer cuff. The study utilized mean, standard deviation, and t-test for independent samples. The findings of the study revealed that generally, the communitybased program for hypertension is an effective health education program in improving hypertensive patients’ increasing degree of knowledge to key health strategies, improving adherence to treatment regimens, and significantly reducing systolic and diastolic blood pressure among hypertensive patient participants.
Community-based program, hypertension, adherence, therapeutic regimen, blood pressure, hypertensive patients
Intercultural Communicative Competence of BSED Major in English Students: Basis for Proposed Integration of Internationalization in BSED Major in English Curriculum of Cagayan State University
This study aimed to investigate the intercultural communicative competence of the BSED Major in English students of Cagayan State University as a basis for proposed integration of internationalization in the BSED Major in English Curriculum. The descriptive-correlational research design was employed. The participants were the first, second and third year BSED major in English with a total population of 92. A structured questionnaire by Dombi Judit was adopted as an instrument. Utilizing the frequency count and percentage, mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, t-test and Pearson-r, this study assessed that intercultural communicative competence of the BSED major in English students of Cagayan State University in relation to variables that facilitate and enhance it, is at “competency” level. The BSED students major in English are skillfully endowed with the capacity in discovering and interpreting a culture of their own and others, adept about facts or information about their own culture and others, and are broadly open to their own culture and others. Along affective variables, perceived communicative competence, intercultural contact and perceived second language competence, students in the BSED major in English have the ability to communicate and interact across cultural boundaries. It is then appropriate to integrate internationalization in the BSED major in English curriculum in order to sustain, maintain, enhance and bring into equal level of Intercultural communicative competence subcomponents that need to be developed among these students who are future teachers of the nation. Pearson-r test unveiled that intercultural communicative competence is significantly correlated with the affective variables, perceived intercultural communicative competence and other individual differences (perceived communicative competence, intercultural contact and perceived second language competence). ANOVA test revealed a significant difference on students’ intercultural communicative competence when grouped according to profile variables, while on students intercultural communicative competence along skills is found to have no significant relationship with perceived intercultural communicative competence and with the affective variable in terms of willingness to communicate.
Intercultural communicative competence, internalization, English Curriculum, English competence
Teaching Performance, Learning Resources and National Achievement Test (NAT) Performance of Complete Elementary Schools of Rizal District, Division of Kalinga
The quantitative-descriptive design principally investigated the relationship between the teaching competence, learning resources and the NAT Performance of the complete elementary schools in the District of Rizal, Division of Kalinga with the involvement of the 79 teacherparticipants of the said district. The primary instrument used was the Competency Based Performance: Appraisal System for Teachers (CB-Past). Frequency and percentage, weighted mean and ANOVA were employed for data analysis. Results revealed that majority of the school-participants have “less adequate” learning resources. This implies that there are more schools in the district that have limited learning resource materials. Schools do utilize whatever available learning resource materials they have. The teacher-participants have “very satisfactory” performance. This is an evidence that the participants had performed and discharged well their duties in their respective schools. There is an increasing trend in the overall NAT performance of the entire district, although there are some schools which recorded slight decrease from the SY 2013-2014 results to those in SY 2014-2015. ANOVA test revealed whether the pupils are taught in multi-grade or mono-grade level, their NAT performance is not affected. ANOVA test showed that the adequacy of learning resources, teacher training, school type and class have no significant impact on students’ academic performance in terms of the National Achievement Test. The performance of teachers in class poses impact on students’ achievement in terms of the National Achievement Test as evidenced by the increasing rating of the teachers, at the same time, increasing mean scores of students per school.
Teaching performance, learning resources, National Achievement Test (NAT) performance
Proposed e-HRM System for Isabela State University
Using the descriptive and developmental design, it aimed to expedite the transactions and modernize the documentation processes at Human Resource Management (HRM) office of Isabela State University (ISU). There were 60 participants involved: nine (9) HR personnel, forty-three (43) teaching/non-teaching staff and eight (8) IT experts. Questionnaire and Library/Internet were employed as research instruments. With the use of the weighted mean, the study ascertained that the current processes and services module of HR office were rated efficient. This could further mean that the HR personnel were accustomed with the existing kind of processes at present but aiming for a better way of doing their job. The problems encountered in the current processes and services of HR are: lack of manpower; delay in the issuance of needed reports; lack of system software; traditional/manual way of keeping; organizing and sorting of files; inefficient checking/computation of leave credits; and, inconsistency in the implementation of policy. These maybe the reasons why there were paper documents misplaced. The proposed e-HRM was assessed by the participants as “very efficient”. This further implies that the teachers, who are the majority of the participants, manifest satisfaction in relation to the organization/agency where they belong because they are contented with the services of the HR office. As regards the proposed e-HRM system, the participants expressed apprehensions on the manpower needed, preferably an IT expert, who can use or operate the system. The proposed e-HRM, in terms of the different software quality characteristics was assessed to a “great extent”. This means that the proposed system met most of the users’ requirements and it is in compliance to ISO 9126 standards. Therefore, the developed e-HRM system ensures better processes and services of HR office as compared to the current processes and services.
Epistemological Beliefs, Misconceptions and Academic Performance of College Students in Plane Trigonometry and Selected Correlates
This study is directed towards investigating the epistemological beliefs about mathematics as well as misconceptions and academic performance of CSU Piat students in Plane Trigonometry and their selected correlates. The study is basically a quantitative research utilizing the descriptive-correlational research design. A total of 261 participants were covered in the study from the three colleges, namely: College of Agriculture, College of Criminal Justice and Administration and College of Information Technology. The Epistemological Beliefs Survey for Mathematics (EBSM) was utilized to measure the Mathematics Belief Scale of the participants. This study adopted various descriptive statistics used for data analysis such as weighted mean, ANOVA and Pearson Product Movement Correlation. Descriptive statistics revealed that first year students of Cagayan State University (CSU) Piat Campus do not meet the minimum competency and mastery level of basic and tertiary mathematics. Such poor academic performance is principally attributed to some misconceptions about essential concepts, procedures and principles in Mathematics. Significantly, they have less developed epistemological beliefs, understandings and appreciations of the nature of Mathematics as a discipline. Furthermore, females and those enrolled in the College of Agriculture have less understanding of the nature and learning process in mathematical knowledge. Interestingly, although females have less developed epistemological beliefs in Mathematics, they nonetheless, performed better in their Plane Trigonometry subject which explains the absence of correlation between epistemological beliefs and Mathematics performance. It must be noted that, academic performance in Plane Trigonometry cannot be attributed to a single factor like epistemological beliefs because there are numerous factors that interplay in one’s understanding and mastery of the subject. Finally, the correlates of academic performance in Plane Trigonometry are high school Mathematics grade and first semester College Mathematics grade. This showed a direct relationship between Basic Mathematics and College Algebra grades in influencing one’s performance in Plane Trigonometry.
Epistemological beliefs, misconception, academic performance, Plane Trigonometry
School-Based Management Practices of Public Secondary School Heads: Basis for Policy Recommendation
School-Based Management (SBM) is characterized as an era of the transition of the roles and functions of school leaders‖ or school managers such as principals, head teachers, officers-in-charge and teachers-in-charge who participate in school leadership activities. As managers, school heads are accountable for financial operations, building maintenance, student scheduling, personnel, public relations, school policy regarding discipline, coordination of the instructional program, and other overall school matters. This study attempted to analyze the school-based management practices of secondary school heads in the first district of Isabela. This study employed the descriptive method of research and involved two hundred fifty three (253) teacherparticipants selected through stratified proportional random sampling and used a questionnaire in gathering data needed for the study. The findings of the study fostered better understanding of the basic tenets namely: vision and purpose, features, structures and roles, and support system of school-based management. Coordination among stakeholders served as the best measure for an effective school-based management which is influenced by the participants’ educational attainment, position, and length of service.
School-based management practices, public secondary school heads, policy recommendation
Organizational Climate and Productivity of Public Elementary Schools
The study aimed to determine the organizational climate and productivity of public elementary schools. Specifically, it sought to determine if there is a significant difference in the organizational climate and organizational productivity when grouped according to school administrator profile, teacher profile, and school profile. It also examined for significant relationship between the schools’ organizational climate and productivity. The participants include the public elementary school administrators and teachers of the District of Cabagan, Division of Isabela. The study used descriptive correlational research design. The organizational climate in terms of teacher interaction varies with teachers’ age and pupil population. The disparities in age and number of pupils tend to gap the teachers from interacting with one another. The schools’ organizational productivity in terms of NAT performance varies with teachers’ length of service and educational attainment. The teachers’ vigor and enthusiasm together with educational foundation contribute in the performance of the learners. Organizational productivity both in terms of NAT performance and faculty competence are not generally associated with the organizational climate of the school. The teachers’ professionalism and ability to accomplish tasks and perform duties and responsibilities regardless of work environment are deemed crucial which determines the faculty competence.
Organizational climate, organizational productivity, NAT performance, faculty competence
Road Safety Management of the Department of Public Works and Highways: Basis for Policy Recommendation
The Road Safety Audit in the Department of Public Works and Highways - Isabela First District Engineering Office is very important to address the issue of the accident potential, road accidents and most likely safety performance of the distinct plan for a road scheme, whether for new construction, or a rehabilitation of existing road and existing condition of road networks. The concept of road safety management is that all highway schemes must operate as safe as possible. This study looked into the extent of implementation of the Road Safety Management and the extent of compliance to the policies on road safety management along road networks of the Department of Public Works and Highways-Isabela First District Engineering Office. The study utilized the descriptive research design. The participants of the study consisted of forty (40) participants. The researcher made use of a questionnaire that was subjected to try-out and validation and data gathered revealed that the DPWH-Isabela First District Engineering Office complied to Department Order No. 41 Series of 2016 on the maintenance of existing signages to a moderate extent. Awareness of policies such as Department Orders for road safety is very important. The implementing rules and regulations of these Department Orders for Road Safety must be observed strictly prior for the implementation of road safety management along the national roads of the Department of Public Works and Highways. Road traffic injuries are preventable if all necessary devices are considered during the planning stage. The Implementing Rules and Regulations must be strictly enforced and these rules must be widely disseminated and observed.
Road safety management, Department of Public Works and Highways, policy recommendation
Student Enrolment Management System of Lyceum of Aparri
The study aimed to develop a fully customized Student Enrolment Management System (SEMS) for Lyceum of Aparri to facilitate the enrolment and accounting process and to cater to the needs of all the clients and the staff in the delivery of frontline services. This study followed the framework of Design Science Research for Information Systems, thus, the researcher identified the problems encountered in the enrolment and accounting process, defined the objective of the study, designed and developed the system, deployed, evaluated, and presented the results of the study. The SEMS operates in multiple computer units over the network having a centralized database for data storage and retrieval. It has different integrated features that support the needs of the frontline service providers and the clients. The overall functionality of the SEMS increased the efficiency of the frontline service providers since most of the processes are automated. The results of the survey along with quality of services, accuracy of records and reports, and timeliness reveal that SEMS is a significant and an efficient instrument in the delivery of frontline services.
Information system, accounting system, enrolment system, enrolment process, computerized system
Social and Economic Benefits of Tourism to the Local Community of Santiago City
This study was conducted to determine the social and economic benefits of tourism to the Local Community of Santiago City. The descriptive research design was employed using survey questionnaire and structured interview in gathering the data. There were one hundred five participants (105) comprising of LGU employees involved in tourism planning, project formulation and policy making; people who are directly involved in tourism business such as travel agencies, food industry, hotel and resort establishments; and local entrepreneurs such as souvenir shops and shops offering locale delicacies and independent providers of other tourism products and services. Frequency, percentage, weighted mean and the Likert scale were used for the statistical data analysis. On the other hand, thematic analysis was used for the interpretation of the participants’ responses as regards the interview questions. Results showed that individuals, families and the community as a whole enjoy the social benefits of tourism to a great extent while the tourism benefits to the local economy of Santiago City was rated to a great extent using the areas of individual income, employment, foreign exchange, infrastructure, foreign investment, local entrepreneurship and tax revenue as bases.
Social and economic benefits, tourism, local community
Faculty Research Characteristics, Productivity and University Research Environment: Basis for Enhancing Research Culture
This study aimed to determine the research characteristics, productivity, and research environment of the faculty members of Quirino State University. The study utilized the mixed methods descriptive design employing both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data were collected through survey questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussion. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics while the qualitative data were analyzed thematically. The study found that the University’s research management is efficiently functioning. The three campuses have varied extent of productivity along the number of proposals developed, researches completed, outputs presented, conferences attended, researches published, and creative works copyrighted, patented and trademarked. The faculty members of the three campuses are highly motivated and knowledgeable in doing research. The participants’ number of subject preparations significantly affects their motivational, attitudinal drive in doing research. The age and years as a researcher together with their number of subject preparations greatly affected their knowledge and skills in research. The extent of the departmental research culture, participants’ working conditions, extent of collaboration and access to professional networks is high and low on online publication in the three campuses. The problems encountered by the participants include overloaded subject preparations, unequal distribution of research training opportunities, fear of statistics, uninstitutionalized collaborative research; only best papers are given recognition and absence of incentive during in-house reviews.
Research attitude, research characteristics, research environment, Quirino State University
The Use of Ebook as an Instructional Tool: The St. Paul University Philippines Experience
Technology has changed education and how educators can leverage new educational tools to personalize learning, encourage collaboration, and prepare students for the future. Technology, too, is one of the hallmarks of the 21st century learners. This study would like to document the use of eBook as an instructional tool which includes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of teachers, parents and students, as well as their practices, problems encountered and suggestions. The quantitative approach, particularly descriptive research design was employed to document the knowledge, skills, attitudes, practices, experiences, views, and suggestions of students, teachers and parents on the utilization of eBooks in the instructional process. In the study, there are three groups of participants: teachers handling Grade 7-10, students from the Science section and parents. Questionnaire as well as interview protocol were used as research instruments. For data analysis, frequency and percentage, mean, ANOVA, and thematic analysis were employed. Results of the study revealed that most of the student-participants are 15 years old and grade 9. Majority of the teacher-participants are female with ages ranging from 21-25, handling grade 9 and taught Mathematics subjects. With regard to parentparticipants, majority are female, at age 41 and above, have access to formal education in tertiary level and business owners. Furthermore, the student and teacher-participants’ knowledge on the use of eBook are “very high,” while that of the parent-participants are “high.” On the other hand, all participants have “high” skills and “highly favorable” attitudes on the use of eBooks.
Ebook, instructional tool, iPad, basic education unit
Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Performance in English of Grade 7 Students
In learning, metacognition is considered important as it is a strong predictor of a learner’s academic success. Generally, students with good metacognitive skills demonstrate good academic performance compared with students with poor metacognition. Students with poor metacognition may benefit from metacognitive trainings to improve their metacognition and academic performance. Individual differences exist in metacognition and people with poor metacognition are deemed “incompetent” as they perform less relative to their peers (Kruger and Dunning, 1999). Metacognition enables students to be strategic in their learning by learning new information rather than focusing on studying information already learned. This study sought to determine the metacognitive awareness and academic performance in English of Grade 7 students of Cagayan National High School. It made use of descriptive-correlational research design utilizing the Metacognitive Awareness in Reading Questionnaire as research instrument. The participants of the study are the Grade 7 students of Cagayan National High School for the School Year 2014-2015. The study found that participants who have good academic performance generally use the bottom-up strategy. They understand the text that they are reading by dealing with the letters and words used in their reading materials. These students are able to acquire reading comprehension through getting the meaning of words. Furthermore, the participants who possess low academic performance prefer to use the top-down strategy.
Metacognitive awareness, academic performance in English, grade 7 students
The Accounting Services of the Department of Science and Technology Region 2 as to the Implementation of Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP)
Accounting and governance are important at the organizational level and image, because accounting governance strengthens the organization. It establishes the organization’s reputation in the public disclosure data reliability and creates a competitive advantage in the business. This study seeks to assess the extent of implementation, degree of relevance, degree of reliability and timeliness of the accounting services in the implementation of Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP). This study used the descriptive and quantitative analyses with the use of questionnaire and interview to get information on the assessment of the participants on the accounting services of DOST Region 02. It involved a total of one hundred eighty three (183) participants. The study revealed that the Accounting Services of the Department of Science and Technology Region 02 provided in their SETUP Program generally possess the hallmarks of quality from the assessment of both its internal and external users and clients. This is particularly true with respect to the extent of its implementation, degree of relevance, reliability and timeliness. The assessment of the quality of the Accounting Services is consistently done across its various users and clients with high rating of evaluation.
Accounting services, department of science and technology, small enterprise technology upgrading program (SETUP)
Classroom Talk in EFL Classes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This study sought to examine the patterns of talk and other patterns that emerged in the classroom talk and aimed to investigate the level of questions, the syntactic structure of questions, and the initiated repairs used by teachers in classroom interaction. There were 10 English teachers from 5 colleges who were randomly selected as participants. The instrument used in the study was the recorded teaching observation of the teachers. The verbatim transcriptions of the video materials were used as the main instrument in examining the teachers’ patterns of talk; their syntactic and cognitive level of questions; and the other-initiation repairs used by them to resolve the issues and to sustain the smooth flow of conversation. The study made use of the qualitative and quantitative approaches and revealed that teacher Initiation-Response-Feedback pattern was mostly used by teachers which signify the restricted adherence of teachers in a one cycle turn of asking questions by the teacher, providing response by student and giving feedback by the teacher. Whereas on the emerging patterns of talk, Initiation-Response pattern emerged which was predominantly used by teachers. This shows that there are deviations on the IRF pattern of eliciting verbal responses from the learners. Teachers used low level type of questions both in the cognitive level and syntactic structure of questions posted by teachers. This means that questions used were not intended to develop students’ creativity. Most teachers preferred to use the hearing repair which is the least sensitive approach in resolving issues. This provided the teachers more opportunities to address the problems in the course of the conversation. The teachers have to accept the responsibility of providing solutions to the identified problems instead of delegating the responsibility to the students to solve the problem.
Classroom talk, EFL classes, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Enhancing Quality Assurance Mechanism through Data Analysis Approach
Quality assurance is a holistic approach utilized in higher education institutions which covers all the elements of educational processes. It is aimed at providing better services to students and other stakeholders ensuring that these services meet certain quality standards. This study sought to develop an enhanced quality assurance mechanism intended to expedite the process of a state university’s leveling by developing an information system that incorporated the useful functions of data consolidation and clustering and supported by data analytics technologies. The study utilized the descriptive mixed methods research design and included fifteen (15) participants who are involved in the operation of the leveling instrument tool for the State Universities and Colleges (SUCs). Relevant data were gathered using questionnaires and through observations and interviews. The developed SUCs Leveling tool has a high level of validity as assessed by the information technology experts. The overall results of the participants’ evaluation, the enhanced SUC Leveling Tool for SUCs were found to be compliant to a very great extent with the quality standard characteristics defined by ISO/IEC 9126-1 in terms of functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability. The developed system has the ability to extract knowledge hidden in complex and varied sources of data and visualize them in human-readable form. The data mining and analytics tool is freely available for academic use and uses the data sets generated by the developed system as its input.
Quality assurance mechanism, data analysis approach, higher education institutions, ISO/IEC 9126
Development and Evaluation of a Proposed Worktext in Solid Mensuration
The main purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a proposed worktext in Solid Mensuration along the quality of elements: course content, manner of presentation and usefulness of the material. The participants consisted of 50 freshmen engineering students from the University of Saint Louis, Summer 2016. A quasi – experimental method was used to determine whether the use of worktext in teaching and learning Solid Mensuration will improve students’ understanding and performance. The data were collected from two groups (control and experimental), analyzed and were interpreted using mean, standard deviation and weighted mean and independent samples t-test. The findings showed that the proposed worktext in Solid Mensuration is effective in enhancing students’ understanding of the concepts in Solid Mensuration. Also, the experts and the students have similar assessment along the different quality of elements of the proposed worktext; therefore the proposed worktext can be utilized as a supplementary instructional tool by both the students and teachers for facilitating teaching and learning process in Solid Mensuration.
Development, evaluation, worktext, solid mensuration
Career Management of the Philippine Military Academy Graduates: Basis for Policy Improvements
This study attempts to determine how relevant are the programs of both the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines concerning the training, deployment and ultimately their career administration and development to the graduates of the Academy. It sought to determine the career management of the Philippine Military Academy graduates from 1997 to 2001 and aimed to determine the current status, assignments, designations, challenges while in the service and recommendations of the PMA graduates. The study made use of the mixed-method research design that involved 123 Army Officers who graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in the academic year 1997-1998 to 2000-2001 as participants. The study utilized the following instruments: the Career Management Assessment Tool, the Document Review Form and Work Life Balance or Fulfillment questionnaire, Compliance and Implementation questionnaire. The officers’ career compliance and personnel management implementation are at “moderate extent” on their career management. The officers have a “great extent” of fulfillment which is affected by the marital status, specifically on the relationship category. The participants wanted some improvements in terms of the policies on career management. The challenges experienced by the participants in the service can be appropriately improved though the implementation or enhancement of some policies on career management.
Career management, Philippine military academy, army officers
Leadership Behaviors of Nurse Administrators and Caring Behaviors of Staff Nurses at the Cagayan Valley Medical Center
This study sought to describe the leadership behaviors of nurse administrators as well as the staff nurses’ caring behaviors and to compare the nurse administrators’ leadership behaviors as assessed by themselves and by their staff nurses. Caring behaviors of staff nurses were described according to profile variables. Leadership behaviors of nurse administrators have been associated with the caring behaviors of staff nurses. This descriptive correlational study was conducted in a 500-bed capacity tertiary, teaching, training hospital, the Cagayan Valley Medical Center, the 3rd largest hospital in the Philippines. All 53 nurse administrators and 89 regular staff nurses in this hospital were the participants of the study. The Leadership Behavior Checklist developed by Cornelius & Associates (2010) for nurse administrators and the Caring Behaviors Inventory established by Wolf (1994) for staff nurses were used as data gathering instruments of this study. Leadership behaviors were very highly manifested by nurse administrators in all dimensions as assessed by themselves, however, these manifestations were not slightly concurred by staff nurses in some dimensions. The leadership behavior of nurse administrators reflects high manifestation of staff nurses caring behaviors. The caring behavior manifested by staff nurses was not affected when the staff nurses were grouped according to their profile variables. This study also provides further evidences regarding perceptions of nurse administrators and staff nurses on the leadership behaviors of their nurse administrators which demonstrate agreements and disagreements on the different dimensions of leadership behaviors.
Nurses’ leadership behavior, caring behavior, Cagayan Valley Medical Center
Reading Performance and Reading Remediation Practices in the Public Elementary Schools of Tuao West District: Basis for a Proposed Reading Intervention Program
Reading is a basic life skill. It is a cornerstone for a child’s success in school, and, indeed, throughout life. Without the ability to read well, opportunities for personal fulfillment and job success inevitably will be lost. This study sought to determine the pupils’ reading performance and the teachers’ remediation practices in the public elementary schools of Tuao West. This study utilized the descriptive survey and the participants were 995 pupils from Grades I to VI and 60 teachers who were chosen randomly among the 6 schools in Tuao West District for the school year 2016-2017. The 60 teacher-participants were the sources of data on reading remediation practices. The interview guide was used to gather data on the remediation practices of teachers in the public elementary schools of Tuao West District. To obtain data on the pupils’ reading performance, the Phil Iri test was conducted to the pupil-participants. Data on pupils’ reading performance, both on oral and silent readings, were extracted from the said document. The results revealed that there is a high proportion of pupils whose reading level fall within the frustration level which indicates pupils’ poor comprehension skills. The teachers manifested their commitment to improve pupils’ reading performance by the many reading remediation practices they explored, however, along the process; there are hindering factors that affected the successful implementation of the reading remediation activities.
Reading performance, reading remediation practices, reading intervention program
Reading Comprehension Level and Vocabulary Skills of Grade II Pupils and their Academic Performance in English of St. Paul University Philippines
This study aimed to assess the reading comprehension and vocabulary level of Grade II pupils and their performance in English. The study further investigated the relationship among the three focused variables. The descriptive correlation design was adopted to investigate the assessment and correlation analysis of the pupils’ reading comprehension level and their performance in English. A reading comprehension test and vocabulary skill test were administered to the total enumeration of the pupils in the three sections of Grade II at Saint Paul University Philippines for the academic year 2014-2015. For data analysis, frequency, percentage count, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Chi-square test were employed. From the findings, it was assessed that the reading comprehension levels and vocabulary skills of Grade II pupils are “low” considering the majority belonging to the “frustration” level. On the other hand, the performance of pupils in English is relatively “high” with an equal number of pupils within the “advanced” and “proficient” level. For Chi-square test results revealed that a significant correlation exists between pupils’ comprehension level and their performance in English. Similar results were inferred by the grade II pupils’ level of vocabulary and their performance in English. The vocabulary skills of pupils along synonyms, context clues, configuration clues and homonyms are correlated to the reading comprehension levels of the pupils along noting similarities, identifying cause and effect, noting details and predicting outcomes. In contrast, the vocabulary skills of pupils along picture clues and their reading skill revealed a significant correlation. Therefore, there must be a need for the language teachers to make interventions to improve their students’ performance in English.
Reading comprehension, vocabulary skills, academic performance
Effects of Students’ Learning Style and Teachers’ Teaching Style on Linguistic Ability of Students in an Ethno-Diversed Environment
The study aimed to describe the effects of the students’ learning style and teachers’ teaching style on the linguistic ability of students in an ethno-diversed environment.The participants were the fourth year students of Apayao State College, Conner Central National High School, Conner National High School, Benjamin Leguiab Memorial National High School in the academic year 2013- 2014 who took the National Career Assessment Examination. The third year teachers of the fourth year students who took the NCAE were also part of the participants. Data were gathered through a questionnaire.The study also made use of the 2013- 2014 NCAE result to determine the students’ linguistic ability in terms of verbal ability and reading comprehension. Results proved that Conner is indeed a home of diverse groups of people and most of them speak Ilocano. The result also illustrated that most of them are visual learners. The result also showed that matching of teaching style with the students’ learning style is not significant. Teachers had no exact teaching style that matches various students’ learning styles in an ethno-diverse environment.
Learning style, teachers’ teaching styles, linguistic ability, ethno-diverse environment
Functional Capacity of Primary Health Care Centers in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
The qualitative descriptive design was utilized to determine the perception of healthcare providers about the functional capacity of the Primary Health Care (PHC) centers in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. A survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed to different healthcare providers in the 24 PHC centers in Samarinda which includes physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, nutritionists, laboratory technicians and sanitary inspectors. The mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, and ANOVA were employed for data analysis. The study assessed that majority of the healthcare providers are nurses and have been working for 1-5 years. As to the disaster preparedness of Primary Health Care centers when measured by its functional capacity is “low” or “inadequate” along the five major areas namely: organization of Disaster Committee and an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Operational plan for internal or/and external disasters, plan for the operation, preventive maintenance, and restoration of critical services, and availability of medicines, supplies, instruments, and other equipment for use in emergency. In general healthcare providers’ assessment of PHCs readiness to face disaster as measured by functional capacity was “low,” which is classified under “Level C” based on the WHO Hospital Safety Index. This is interpreted as “Urgent Intervention is needed.” ANOVA test reveals a significant difference in the level of functional capacity of PHC centers in terms of job position and length of service. The inadequacy in the functional capacity of the Primary Health Care centers in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia can be given urgent solution through an integrated approach that includes international, national and local health government officials, emergency coordinating bodies and community representatives.
Functional capacity, primary health care, disaster preparedness
MySPUP: A Marketing and Promotions Mobile Application of St. Paul University Philippines
This study was conducted to develop a Marketing and Promotion Mobile Application of St. Paul University Philippines. The proposed study used the systems development and design type of research. It also used the qualitative approach to validate observations about the difficulties of tourists or guests visiting the University. The researcher utilized the internet research and online survey questionnaire for data gathering. Frequency, percentage and mean were utilized for data analysis. From the findings, there are more preferred materials that would positively contribute to the enhancement of the current marketing and promotion strategies. These are the Flyers and brochures, website, poster, Campaign Video, word of mouth. The participants least preferred materials were calendars and e-mail communication. Among the current limitations of marketing promotions are the following: cost (expensive), accessible only within the circle of friends, involved limited number of campaign materials, quality of campaign materials, while the least limitation is dearth of reply and ineffective school campaign. The first five information needed for the marketing promotions are the following: course offerings, school’s accomplishments, school’s visionmission, school’s awards and citations and contact information. The proposed mobile application is more efficient than the current marketing and promotion strategies and endeavours. Thus, it is considered more innovative, accessible and paperless approach. Therefore, the proposed mobile application will help St. Paul University Philippines in marketing and promoting the University Programs, Achievements, Activities, Special Programs and Services and the like which could save time, effort and money. Moreover, it is an efficient way of reaching out target markets locally, nationally and globally.
mySPUP, marketing, promotions mobile application
Comparative Analysis on Risk Management Practices among Selected Cooperative Banks and Rural Banks in Cagayan
This descriptive study aimed to conduct a comparative analysis on the Risk Management Practices of selected Cooperative Banks and Rural Banks operating in Cagayan. Cooperative Banks and Rural Banks are small banks that are susceptible to the greater amount of risks. Administration of questionnaires and conduct of interviews were the data gathering methods used. The study participants were bank managers, head of risk management department and any person who have direct knowledge of risk management of the banks where they are employed. Frequency Count and Percentage, Weighted Mean and Kruskal–Wallis Test were utilized as data analysis. From the findings, results revealed that majority of the banks are Rural Banks. In addition, majority of the banks are dominated by vast regional banks in the market coverage. Cooperative banks in Cagayan have a “very high” understanding of risk and risk management, while rural banks have a “good level” of understanding. Audit and physical inspection were the highest risk identification method used for cooperative and rural banks. Among the banks common risk management practices involved, namely; managing risk; risk assessment and analysis; and risk management process. Kruskal-Wallis test showed no significant difference on the level of understanding of the participants on risk management when grouped according to profile. Moreover, Kruskal-Wallis test revealed no significant difference in the risk management practices of banks. Thus, Banks in Cagayan whether Rural or Cooperative in nature utilizes risk identification methods. Both Cooperative Banks and Rural Banks find it difficult to identify and classify its main risk.
Risk management, risk management practices, rural banks, cooperative banks