DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

REGION XII
KIDAPAWAN CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION
KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Roxas St., Kidapawan City

DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH ON TARDINESS OF STUDENTS IN GRADE

X PHOENIX SECTION

An Action Research presented to:

Faculty and Staff of

Kidapawan City National High School

RIMMON A. PAREN, MBA

Researcher
SY 2015-2016
 ABSTRACT

Punctuality is one of the virtues beyond reproach. Much of the time and wealth
will be saved if this virtue will be carried out to the system of every responsible citizen.
Punctuality will encompass all of the positive action in all aspects. Though it was less
appreciated in other situations like productivity against punctuality, none the less, it is still
very vital in situations that needed it most.

This study will determine the factors affecting students in their daily routine during
school days. Always and often times being tardy in the flag ceremony, in attending classes
after recess time in the morning and afternoon class sessions and during the first period
in the afternoon class session. There are observed instances that during their transfer of
room in their specialization subjects and other activities that needs outdoor activities, they
are behind schedule in attending to it.

There was an indication that student had significantly disliked the subjects of
Science and Mathematics and might be the reason for leniency in their study. The
aversion towards the matter is merely on the subject and has nothing to do with the
Subject Teacher. Moreover, there are students who fairly rated their teacher that might
affect their performance at school.
I. BACKGROUND/STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
There is about 20% of the Grade X - Phoenix Class in Kidapawan City National
High School who is always late in attending the flag ceremony as well as in attending to
their subsequent classes.

This problem had accumulated from tolerable to habitual state and it has a
significant impact in their performance at school. Most of the class had been believed to
be influenced by their peers and will be embedded in their mind pattern until college and
ultimately to their vocation and their adventures in life. Other students had just the
difficulty in optimizing their time as their subject related activities grows in bulk. Reported
incidents on online games cyber addiction were prominent and this usually happens after
lunch break. To figure it out, students set aside their precedence to study and learn thus
the proponent of this research had to find out. Moreover, the researcher’s intention is to
isolate the primary reason of tardiness and proactive intervention will be executed so as
to curtail if it will not utterly do away with the quandaries.

As the school inculcates discipline to have a world class graduates, globally

competitive and well rounded individuals, the researcher had in mind to unearth the
reason behind of this punctuality virtue which is annoyingly, losing its ground.

As the school inculcates discipline to have a world class graduates, globally

competitive and well rounded individuals, the researcher had in mind to unearth the
reason behind of this punctuality virtue which is annoyingly, losing its ground.

II. BREAKDOWN OF PROBABLE CAUSES

1. Distance between residence and school
2. Sending/Reading SMS/Calling/chatting with friends thru mobile phone
3. Sleeping habit/ TV shows obsession
4. Online/LAN games/Social Networking Sites(SNS) cyber compulsion
5. Financial Constraints/Standard of Living
6. Family Values on punctuality
7. Mode of transportation
8. Traffic load of the route to school
9. Subject/class related cause
10. Teacher related cause
11. Peer Influence/Camaraderie
12. Bullying/ stress factor
13. Classroom supervision

III. SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The study will be conducted within the class of Fourth Year – Phoenix students. This
group of student belongs to Basic Education Curriculum Program of Kidapawan City
National High School and considered as outstanding students of the Fourth year level.
This group of student, total to 61 individuals, was also under the advisory of the
 researcher and the survey questions will be delimited to obtaining primary and secondary
reasons of tardiness as well as assessing related factors underlying therewith.

Information acquired and provided by students will be used to confirm or negate the
feasible causes which were earlier stated. The result of the survey will then contribute
insight in planning and drafting of the solutions in addressing the said problems being
identified that needs appropriate action. An Action plan will be the final output of the said
research to be implemented upon approval of the school administrator.

The researcher will use a sampling method with inquiries which is not answerable by
yes or no. The researcher arbitrarily selects this group of students for they well represent
a typical student which his/her primary aim is to learn and excel in school. Moreover, the
problem on tardiness was very observable in this group of students while they are
supposedly being a model to other students.

IV. ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS RELATED TO SURVEY

The survey was done utilizing the survey questions (please see attached Survey
Sheet) and the result was tallied and will be scrutinized accordingly. The complexity of
the Survey Sheet was intentionally prepared to extract valid and trustworthy answers from
the subject population. The explicit outcome of the answers will be categorized in factors
that affect their punctuality values in attending to their classes or other learning related
activities.

This will be classified as Internal and External factors and further be classified
according to the details of each factor. The elucidation of the findings will be presented in
non-statistical and technical languages which will generally benefit the readers as well as
the subject of the study. Thus, the presentation will be done according to the intention of
the researcher to shed light on this tricky rationalization.

INTERNAL FACTOR

The table below is representing the personal factor of every student which
comprehensively supports the reasons in being late with; attending to classes, flag
ceremony, and submitting paper works, etc. This information gives us the detail on how
they spend their residual time after classes or while class is going on. This clearly shows
that friends/peer influence plays vital role in student’s life; secondary is the compulsion
with TV shows and the pre-occupation of mobile phone to student’s attention as well as
the household chores that was understandably assigned to young adolescents in their
share of tasks at home.
TIME MANAGEMENT

Figure 1.1

The table below (figure 1.2) supports the leniency of students in their study. Basically, a sound
mind needs adequate sleep to function well especially in learning lessons at school. Adequacy on the
number of hours of sleep per individual vary by its age category. A typical student in adolescent stage
needs 8-10 hours of sleep to have a keener sense of understanding the lessons all throughout the
day. A student who have a complete 10 hours of undisturbed and sounding sleep was generally
gaining outstanding results in academic excellence.

The graph below represent the sleep habit of the subject which was generally falls at 9:00
pm and 10:00 pm. If a student would sleep at 10:00 pm and should wake up at 5:00 am, therefore, the
student had only 7 hours of sleep, this 1 to 3 hours depravation of sleep has significant effect on the
learning period of every student. This would affect the mood, span of attention and mental aptitude.

Figure 1.2
 Figure below (Figure 1.3) represents a small fraction on student’ outlook with respect to their study
habit and school attendance. This was noted by the researcher for this small but dominant few had
made significant stimulus in students who are easily influenced because of varied reasons. As the
primary source of education, the parents should ultimately understand the right of every child for
education and underlying obligations related therein. Parents and or guardians who are being
complacent would greatly affect child’s performance at school. Valuing the education has more on
affirmative impact on the chart below with the students who are positively reinforced by parents.

Figure 1.3

EXTERNAL FACTORS

To give due consideration on other factors that affects the schedules of the
student, the researcher made a survey on the following:
 Figure 1.5

Figure 1.6

Figure 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 represents the external factors that affect tardiness of the
students. Figure 1.4 states the distance of home to school and figure 1.5 will represent
the mode of transportation/ utility to reach school and the time allotted to travel to school
was shown at figure 1.6. In figure 1.4, it shows that 36% of the students were living at the
distance of more than 2 kilometers and most these students had tricycle as the mode of
transportation and they had to travel more or less 20 to 30 minutes to reach school. With
these figure representation, a student would likely be late for school since the time allotted
for travel is almost or half of the hour, they need to wake up early and prepare. A typical
student needs 1.5 hours to prepare and travel to school, they should wake up as early as
5:00 am to have ample time for preparation and allocate time threshold for travel if the
student aspires punctuality.
 Figure below shows the information on the student’s attitude towards punctuality in
attending their subjects. The information is a negative reaction towards the subject thus
affecting attendance and punctuality. Ranking first is the Science subject and followed by
mathematics. The negative attitude towards this subject is mainly brought by dislike of
the subject itself.

Figure 1.8

V. SUMMARY OF DATA INTERPRETATION

The figure above confirms the hypothesis of having students at 20 % (+/-) who are
being late in attending the classes, flag ceremony and other learning related activities.
The figure further states the factors that significantly affect the student’s performance at
school.

The researcher made an extra mile in identifying other factors which might affect the
attitude towards learning by including the information gathering which was shown at
figures 1.7 and 1.8. There was an indication that student had significantly disliked the
subjects of Science and Mathematics and might be the reason for leniency in their study.
The aversion towards the matter is merely on the subject and has nothing to do with the
Subject Teacher. Moreover, there are students who fairly rated their teacher that might
affect their performance at school.

There is a student who was bullied in the classroom, a parent who negatively adjudged
the education privileges of a child and a student who blatantly disliked the teacher, the
number of student in this study with strikingly averse situation from the other student is
less significant to negligible percentage.

Furthermore, internal factors are to be the focus in making appropriate actions by the
researcher. Giving weight in time management and valuing the virtue of punctuality.

VI. ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION

 1. The student should be guided in their time management if the reason is the distance,
financial constraints on the fare, traffic load of the route and mode of transportation.

2. An arranged home visitation to personally confer with the parents or guardians about the
situation of the student if the primary reason was financial support for the fare likewise
read-through the family ideals in punctuality and the attitude towards Child Education.
Same feat will be done to students who are well buffered with extra cash spent for cyber
compulsion.

3. Evaluate the student regarding its learning difficulty to the concerned subject and confer
to the subject teacher vis-à-vis the circumstances. Concrete action is to conduct an initial
Multiple Intelligence Assessment to every student before the class begins early in June
to determine the learning difficulties and or learning styles. Upon verifying the learning
styles, the teacher will look into the design of lesson planning to address the situation.

4. Look into the situation of the peer influence as well as bullying of classmates that might
be the reason of deplorable attitude towards learning.

5. Faithfully device an operant conditioning to give rewards to those who are early comers
and reinforce consistency all through-out the school year.

6. Organize a peer counselor among students. Selected students with venerable outlook in
student’s life, behave well in campus, renowned for leadership capability and have a
strong interpersonal skill. They will be assigned per “problem-subject” group or individual.

VII. ACTION

Data to be Data
Strategy
Collected Analysis/Interpretation
1. Multiple Intelligence Inner strength, Percentage
Assessment in June(every learning difficulties
school year) and weaknesses
2. Time Management Weekly/Daily Percentage
lecture/workshop with the planner of every
students in June (every student
school year)
3. After the MI Assessment, Background check Percentage
cull the prospect and confirmation of
students (Strong the interpersonal
Interpersonal Skills) to be skills
peer counselors and orient
them in their assigned task.
4. Reward Psychology Early Bird Frequency
Attendance Report
5. Student Journal and Family values and Percentage
Process folio financial capability
 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
REGION XII
KIDAPAWAN CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION
KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Roxas St., Kidapawan City

QUESTIONNAIRE
(STUDENT)

Name of Respondent:_________________________________ Year and Section:

____________

Directions: Please check/tick the box that suits your choice of answer provided for each
question. Please accomplish honestly all of the questions and the information will be
treated highly confidential. There are no wrong answers.

1. Is Kidapawan City National High School is the only school nearest from your home?

2. How far is your home from school?

Less than 500 meters

More than 500 meters but less that 1 kilometer
More than 1 kilometer
More than 2 kilometers

3. What is your mode of transportation?

Bus/Van/Jeepney/Multicab
Tricycle
Motorcycle (owned)
Extended Motorcycle (for hire/rented)
Sent and fetched by family vehicle
Leg Power (walking/hiking)

4. How long does it takes for you to travel from home to school?

Approximately 10 minutes
Approximately 20 minutes
Approximately 30 minutes
Approximately 45 minutes
Approximately 1 hour
More than 1 hour
5. How long does it take for you to transfer from one room to another in your next subject
period?

Approximately 3 minutes
Approximately 5 minutes
Almost 10 minutes
More than 15 minutes

6. The subject that I don’t like most was/were; (you can tick more than 1)

English
Pilipino
Mathematics (Physics, Calculus, Advanced Algebra, etc.)
Science
Araling Panlipunan
MAPEH
None of the above

7. I don’t like the subject because ;

I don’t like the teacher

I don’t like my classmate/s
Somebody is bullying me from that class
I did not like the subject itself

8. Time Management for me is;

for the old and mature person

tiresome, boring and redundant daily chore
is a virtue to be valued and kept by students
respecting the time of others
helping me to accomplish many tasks

9. My parents value my education as;

their only treasure for me to inherit

learning things I needed on my own as they did in the past
an alibi of not helping home chores
just sending me to school like my neighbors do
expensive and sever the daily budget for food and other primary needs

10. I spend most of my time in;

watching my favorite TV show/s

playing online/LAN game/s
working to earn money to subsidize my education
hanging around with my friends
 sending/reading SMS/ talking/chatting with my friends
doing household chores

11. The reason why I am late in attending my classes;

working with other requirements

distance of the specialization lecture area from my class room
receiving calls/reading /answering text messages
had to finish my snacks/lunch
attending my extra-curricular activities

12. After almost ten months with the subject I am learning;

I learned a lot of things about it

I am picking informative things about the subject
a thing or two…
nothing and I am not interested at all
to do complacent measures just to pass this subject

13. I go to bed at;

7:45 pm
8:30 pm
9:00 pm
10:00 pm
after midnight

14. My subject teacher is;

skillful, efficient and effective in teaching the lesson

is good in his/her field of expertise
giving us load of homework/tasks which is beyond our capability
a symbol of authority and tenacious
funny
lackluster and needs inspiration