SPUP Graduate School Research Journal

Reading Performance and Reading Remediation Practices in the Public Elementary Schools of Tuao West District: Basis for a Proposed Reading Intervention Program

Dave Shid Genoveza Cabbuag — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Leadership Behaviors of Nurse Administrators and Caring Behaviors of Staff Nurses at the Cagayan Valley Medical Center

Josephine P. Turingan, RN — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Career Management of the Philippine Military Academy Graduates: Basis for Policy Improvements

Charles V. Calucag — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Development and Evaluation of a Proposed Worktext in Solid Mensuration

Erovita Teresita Bacud Agustin — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Enhancing Quality Assurance Mechanism through Data Analysis Approach

Byron Joseph A. Hallar — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Classroom Talk in EFL Classes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Georgeson G. Pangilinan — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

The Accounting Services of the Department of Science and Technology Region 2 as to the Implementation of Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP)

Nancy Conel Guimmayen — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Performance in English of Grade 7 Students

Sher-Anne C. Guzman — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.