Mahonri Academy and Science High School
Level of Preparedness in Pursuing College Among Grade 10 students of
Mahonri Academy and Science High School
A research presented to
Mahonri Academy and Science High School
in partial fulfillment for the requirements in
Research Writing
Submitted by
Group 1
Guarino, Xeryn J.
Ramirez, Baby Jean O.
Diza, Cynthia Maris T.
Ibañez, Niah Z.
Baldecir, Clein Lester C.
Alvarez, Rian M.
Alquiza, Joven Jr. F.
A.Y. 2018-2019
Mahonri Academy and Science High School
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER Page
I INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1
Background of the study ............................................................................................. 1
Statement of the problem ............................................................................................ 3
Hypotheses of the study................................................................................................ 3
Objectives of the study ................................................................................................. 3
Significance of the Study ............................................................................................. 4
Scope and Limitations of the Study.............................................................................. 4
Definition of Terms ...................................................................................................... 5
II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ………………………………………... 6
III CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ………………………………………………….7
IV METHODOLOGY…………………………………………………………………8
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS…………………………………………………….9
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………………..10
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary (2013), preparedness defines as the quality
or state of being prepared in certain situation. It refers to a very concrete research
based set of actions that are care taken beforehand measures in the face of certain
happenings. Preparedness is significant potential in changing goals and in escaping
and relieving negative outcomes. The significance of preparedness cannot be
neglected.
Besides that, Grade 10 High School in all educational establishments in the
Philippines faced bachelor’s degree demands an too curious minds, plenty of hard
working, decent study practices and much more. Getting admitted to university is
mostly serves as the basis Grade 10 High School students as they pursue to college.
However, all college preparation classes and other academic coursework to reach its
highest points is not the end, it is the start of something. Completing your chosen
degree program with excellent means the capacity that is the part of academic aspect
of college preparation. If you are fully ready academically, you are prepared to skip
the next step and excel beyond high school at college, in the workplace and well into
adulthood. Senior High School (SHS) refers to Grades 11 and 12, the last two years of
the K-12 program that DepEd has been implementing since 2012. SHS students began
to study the introduce subject regarding on their want to pursue in college.
Besides that, in the recent issue in Mahonri Academy and Science High School at
Grade 10 students, they observed that some of students shift to another strand that fits
to them. Even if it is one step away to college, some of the Grade 10 students decided
to shift their strand when they are coming in senior high for any cause or reasons.
Therefore, Mahonri Academy and Science High School are yearly conducting a Career
Talk Program in Grade 10 High School Department including Grade 9 to Grade 12
students, all of them are required to participate to the said program. The Career Talk
Program helps the students to be more prepared and ready by giving them a lot of
information about tracks/strands and career that they may take as they pursue in Senior
High School and College. Completion of High School is a requirement for college
admission, so if you are aiming to study a four years degree program in college, you
must finish the High School. Being college students is the best days and time of a
young adult’s life.
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College is the best time for students who want to explore and enjoy their adult life
without full responsibility. They have lots of responsibilities but not all of them. For
the first time in their life, College students are now live on their own. They met new
people, joined new clubs, and learned new things. But college student’s life is not
always great. There are also hard parts about college. Some hard parts included: new
sleep patterns, time management, homesickness, anxiety, and tuition.
Time management can be the hardest challenging that they need to overcome, because
they need to present their schedules in high school. Many college students point that
they experienced homesickness in their college career. For a lot of students, this is the
reason why they either switch schools or quit completely. Students that switch schools
usually finds schools that are closer to their home so they do not feel homesick. They
can easily commute in going to school, so that they can live at home while they
complete college. Homesickness can also cause to suffer in anxiety.
Anxiety is another challenge that students have to work. During college, many of the
students if not all, they have to work through anxiety. Exploring new ideas and finding
one’s true self with having great freedom and perfect time for phenomenal experiences
can found in college. 1 is t 5 college students experiencing depression and anxiety and
has an alarming rate based on center for Collegiate Mental Health (2018). The
research emphasized that anxiety and depression have the top factor exposing the
students in the dangers of technology, drugs, stressors, and they are seeking help in
hotlines and hope. Sometimes it cause work load and busy schedule that most students
have to meet these challenge at the same point. As a result of anxiety, most of the
students create their own way to scope up with stress. Also, tuition is one of the
foremost issue that college consider as one of the reasons why some students failed to
enter the college or decide to quit. The debt can become very large before the students
graduate.
In entering college, which is another year following High School is College ready is
mainly force things that a students must established. According to Chester Finn Jr.
(2012), being a college ready is being organize in any preparation experience and
postsecondary education for two or four years of experience that point a postsecondary
diploma. Additionally, college readiness to those set of skills, ability and behavior of a
high school students should be acquired in inflowing collage life. Also, it is
concerning in the capabilities to accomplish achievement at the same time as studying
in the higher learning , which is the college life. Moreover, those who are ready is
simply refers to the students that are know what will be the suitable and qualify chosen
career for their college life.
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Department of Education must give focus and attention also to the finishing high
school students motivate and influence them to pursue in college and to assist them to
select the best and suitable perfect for them.
Mahonri Academy and Science High School is now facing challenges in terms of
student’s academic preparedness specifically in preparing to track college among
Grade 10 students of High School department. According to interrogate conducted by
the researchers to some teachers in high school, school and teachers observed that they
did not see any hunger to go to college for their future.
Statement of the Problem
The primary purpose of the study is to determine the factors affecting the student’s
level of preparedness and how it affects in pursuing college among Grade 10 Students
of Mahonri Academy and Science High School.
1. How to avoid anxiety?
a. communicate with others and tell a story about yourself.
b. always avoid people that always bully you.
c. just stay for being quiet and no care what is happening on your surroundings.
2. What actions can be made to enhance the student’s level of preparedness in
pursuing college based on the result of the study?
Objectives of the Study
The study was guided by the following objectives:
Evaluate each student's academic strengths.
Challenge students to explore their interests and reach their potential.
Gain a clearer picture of how parents and friends influence a student’s
choice of degree programs and universities.
Pursue educational opportunities beyond high school.
Hypotheses of the Study
The following are the hypotheses of the study
H (1): What is the demographic profile of Grade 10 students in terms of:
1.1 Age;
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1.2 Gender;
1.3 Strand;
H (2): What is the students level f preparedness in pursuing college in terms of:
2.1 Key Strategies and key Content acknowledgement;
2.2 key learning skills and techniques; and
2.3 key transition knowledge and skills?
Significance of the Study
Objective of this study is to determine the level of preparedness in pursuing college
among Grade 10 Students. The result of this study will be a great benefit for the
following:
Grade 10 students. The study may be benefit to Grade 10 students to improve their
level of preparedness when they pursue in college. It may help Grade 10 students to be
well prepared before they enter the college career.
Teachers. This study may help teachers to realize that they make a big role in the
student’s level of preparedness in pursuing college. Teachers may provide effective
way of teaching strategies in order to train their students in preparing for college.
Parents. The study may help the parents in a way that they may know and observe the
level of preparedness in pursuing college of their child.
Scope and Limitations of the Study
Scope
The research may focus it’s study not only on knowing the level of preparedness in
pursuing college among Grade 10 students of Mahonri Academy and Science High
School but also to provide actions that the students can enhance their college
preparedness by answering questions prepared and will be given by researchers.
However, the researchers may have a limitation for every students that will answer the
question properly. The Grade 10 students have a knowledge for to answer the
questions. Because Grade 10 students is the one who greatly experiencing high
pressure to pursue in college.
Limitation
The study is limited on the batch of Grade 10 students of the school year (2018-2019)
of Mahonri Academy and Science High School.
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Definition of Terms
The following terms are for better understanding:
College. Refers to the level of higher education usually for people who have finished
twelve years of schooling including Senior High School and where they can obtain
more advance knowledge and get a degree to recognize this.
College ready. Means being prepared for any education or training experience
including study for two or four years degree.
College readiness. Refers to the set of skills, knowledge, and behaviors a High School
students have graduate upon and entering their freshmen year of college.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter covers the ideas, finished thesis and conclusion of the different studies
that is similar and relevant to the present study. The researcher has gone through the
materials available in the websites.
Effectiveness of Tertiary Learning Towards Students
According to an article that are entitled “Self-Efficacy” (Pajares, 2003) conducted
in EMO University located at Atlanta Georgia, USA, discusses that the research shows
the distinction between college fitness and college readiness. For example, students
finish his/her necessities in high school comprehensively, however, the students in
regards of the knowledge in college, academic skills, and study habits that strictly
support the student to complete their college.
Analyzing and Intervention for College Readiness
As stated in the study entitled “Analyzing Evidence of College Readiness: A
TRI-level Empirical & conceptual Framework” (Kless, Soland, And Santiago 2013),
Cover a study that shows the pre-eminence between college readiness and college
eligibility.
The main level of the study is to recognize the “crisis” and any problems of entering
college. The main purpose of DepEd’s K-12 Curriculum and what necessary for the
students to be ready when they pursue college. Also, students are taking school for
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over 13 years, some of them are not still prepare to enter college life. The rates of
students who want to repeat some courses are 60%.
The article authorize “Filipino HS grads are not prepared for college” (Anonymous,
2013), the country’s largest college say that most of the Filipino students don’t have
fully skills to accomplish the success. Some of the students who finish High School
are not capable to have an appropriate skills and potential in which the students should
passes when the student enter in college the officials state. Students in High School are
not been prepared to enter in college as claimed by Tommy Lopez, a president of
Academy Governor and University of Makati (Umak). However, all of the students
have invited for free to fasten with the program of college preparatory wherein it is the
“Career Factor” that helps all the students to make up a decision on what suitable
courses of the students should must get and to enrich their skills that should be possess
in college.
Effect of Work Immersion for College Preparation
As stated by (Bicarme, 2018), the outcome of Work immersion for the preparation in
college, DepEd-Quirino assures High school Graduate preparedness for jobs. Also,
according to Orlando Manuel, DepEd-Quirino schools division superintendent,
students will undergo the immersion, so that the students will be familiarize regarding
on what track they chose, and what are those courses that are suitable to them to take
in college. Manuel also said that there should be 10 days immersion for the students in
order to enhance their abilities, skills and knowledge for them to progress in college.
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College Preparedness through Programs
Through program, wherein it regards in college preparedness which in this program it
is an education of professionals guide and utilization or implemented for high school
junior and senior level class with website for preparedness in college. The program
that been mentioned has different classification with regards of it’s following the
college preparation material:
The student preparation, checklist, presentation, notes, active learning activities and
also tool program which can evaluate the success of the program to decide which a
curriculum can guide with. With the accordance of this “College Preparedness: a
Program for High School Education Professionals” college program for students to be
prepared in having huge influence of the higher point of learning with has an intention.
Significant Aspect for College Readiness
An article entitled ”College Readiness: The Importance of preparing for college while
in high school”(Jaime,2017) conducted in San Diego, which its objective is to
recognize what students in high school necessarily require in understanding in
preparedness in college in thus it’s just not about academic phase of students and
however the essential college preparedness. Academic college preparation, emotional
college readiness, social skills are the following perspective to consider in preparing
for college.
Synthesis
They note that there are several factors that have the potential to influence academic
performance such as student ability motivation, and the quality of secondary education
obtained, age and gender. Additionally, students’ demographic characteristics,
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psychological characteristics and prior academic performance, social and institutional
factors as well as outcomes of the learning process were found to affect academic
performance of students. Research that has investigated the effects of age on student
performance has generally found that mature-age students receive higher grades in
tertiary education settings (Delluchi 1993; Harrington & Harrington 1995; House
keeley Rech 1996; Hoskins, Newstead & Dennis 1997) There have been some
reported
exceptions, such as Justice and Dorman’s (2001) finding of no significant difference
in performance between older and younger students.
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CHAPTER III
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Independent Variable Dependent Variable
Students
whose own
The “least parents didn’t
prepared” go to college
tend to be
students
among the
least prepared
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CHAPTER IV
METHODOLOGY
Research Design
The research study is made through the use of descriptive research, wherein it will
assess the preparedness of grade 10 students under Academic Strand before entering
Tertiary Level of Education or College. The researchers attempted to describe and
discover the different indications or basis for the students in order to be prepared in
college. The research also determines the role, function, benefits and impact of grade
10 students to the teachers and parents, together with the advantages of students that
belong to the Academic Track. According to John Dudovsky (2017), descriptive
research maybe categorized as simply the attempt to determine, describe or identify
what is. It is used to describe various aspects of the phenomenon and describe and/ or
behavior of some population. Three main purposes of descriptive studies can be
explained as describing, explaining and validating research findings. According To a
website named AECT, several authors define descriptive type of research in respect to
their own perceptions. Glass and Hopkins (1984), defines descriptive research as the
gathering of data that describes events and then organizes, tabulates, depicts and
describes the data collection. It often uses visual aids such as graphs and charts to aid
the reader in understanding the data distribution. Because the human mind cannot
extract the full import of a large mass of raw data, descriptive statistics are very
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important in reducing the data to manageable form. Krathwohl (1993), description
emerges following creative exploration, and serves to organize the findings in order to
fit them with explorations and then validate those explanations. Bong and Gall (1989),
the descriptive function of research is heavily dependent on instrumentation for
measurement and observation.
Sampling and Sampling Design
Since there is no list of all the students in private school in Dasmariñas to serve as a
sampling frame. 20 student will be the target number of respondents.
Respondents of the Study
In this research study, the chosen subject or respondents are the grade 10 students
under Mahonri Academy and Science High School.
Research Locale
This research will be conducted in Mahonri Academy and Science High School since
the chosen participants are the grade 10 students in this school. This school is located
at Phase 3 Mabuhay Homes 2000 Paliparan II Dasmariῆas City, Cavite. Mahonri
Academy and Science High School is one of the premier educational institution within
its reach. It educates students to perform well inside and outside the campus. who
graduated with honors and flying colors. This study will be conducted in Mahonri
Academy and Science High School since that this school has also a problem with
regards to students’ preparedness for college that needs to be recognized immediately
to be prepared for their future and treat them to become productive not just as a
student but also a citizen of this society. It is also stated in Mahonri’s vision wherein
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one of their purpose is to have value oriented and productive students that will be
helpful in the society.
Instrumentation and Validation of Instrument
The survey instrument used in this study was a self-administered paper–and pencil
questionnaire used to gathered detailed information about the students preparedness in
pursuing college. The validation is considered a process of gathering evidence or
information that an instrument measures what it claims, or purports, to measure.
Method of Data Analysis
The main purposes of data analysis were to explore the multifaceted nature of
educators’ understandings and to contextualize them within normative understandings
of secondary and post-secondary levels. The interviews were transcribed verbatim for
data analysis. All of the transcripts were coded in their entirety. Records of the
transcriptions and the coding process constitute an audit trail of the data analysis
procedure.
Mean meathod The mean score for Linkert Scale for each students responses
will be computed. The formula is as follows:
μ = (x1 + x2 + x3 …x20)
250
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Where: μ = mean score
xi = individual score
The results will be interpreted using the following 5-points scale:
Completely satisfied – 5(4.50 – 5.00)
Very satisfied – 4(3.50 – 4.49)
Moderately satisfied – 3(2.50 – 3.49)
Slighty satisfied – 2(1.50 – 2.49)
Not all satisfied – 1(1 – 1.49)
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