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STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPUTER SYSTEM SERVICING

A Research Paper Presented to

The Research Committee of
Camiguin National High School
Looc, Catarman, Camiguin

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements

of the Subject Research in Daily Life 1

By:

Jastine Jane C. Cabactulan

Mike Feliciano A. Mendez
Feljun Jay M. Honculada
Nerren Joy C. Bondoc
King Ray B. Tabalba
Kent Bryan C. Daamo
Janiel C. Enterina
Angel E. Lagumbay
Researchers

March 2019
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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Computer knowledge and skills are becoming essential

components technology in education. Students must be

prepared to utilize these technologies for the advancement

of science and for future practice in local and global

communities. Samarkandi (2011) stated that little attention

has been directed to students’ attitudes about computer.

The attitudes about the use of computers for the

enhancement of learning are relatively unknown. Few

research studies have been identified that explicate

students’ attitudes toward computer usage for the

acquisition of knowledge and skills.

Attitude is a learned behavior and, as such, is highly

susceptible to change. It can alter every aspect of a

person's life, including their education. Student attitudes

on learning, good or bad, affect their outlook toward

learning throughout life. Their attitude towards learning

affected not only their amount of education but their

desire for education. It will determine their ability and

willingness to learn (Guyana 2019).

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In Camiguin National High School, the subject that has

an assessment particularly the Computer System Servicing

in the ICT Strand, owns a lot numbers of students. This is

to be done in order to determine the students’ attitude

towards Computer System Servicing. The researcher will

investigate whether the students’ attitude have influenced

the number of student who will take the Computer System

Servicing Assessment.
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Conceptual Framework

Figure 1 shows the conceptual paradigm of the study.

The independent variables are the students attitude towards

Computer System Servicing. The dependent variables are the

influence of the students attitude towards computer system

servicing in the numbers of students who will take the CSS

Assessment.

Independent Dependent
Variable Variable
Attitude of Number of
Student Towards students who will
Computer System take the Computer
Servicing System Servicing
Assessment

Figure 1. Paradigm of the Study

Statement of the Problem

The study will determine the students attitude towards

computer system servicing.

Specifically, it will seek to answer the following

questions:

1. What are the students profile?

a) Sex b) Educational Status

c) Family Monthly Income

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2. What is the students attitude towards Computer System

Servicing?

3. Is there a significant influence of the students

attitude in the numbers of students who will take the

Computer System Servicing Assessment?

Hypothesis

The research will be guided by the hypothesis that

follows:

There is a significant influence of the students

attitude in the numbers of students who will take the

Computer System Servicing Assessment base on the students

sex, educational status and their family monthly income.

Scope and Delimitation of the Study

This research will focus only on the students’

attitude towards Computer System Servicing. This study

covers only those Grade 12 students in ICT Strand in

Camiguin National High School, who have been attending the

Computer System Servicing Assessment subject. This research

study will be conducted in Camiguin National High School,

located in Looc, Catarman, Camiguin. The duration of this

study is in the Second Semester, S.Y. 2019-2020.

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Significance of the Study

The success of this study will be helpful to a number

of benefactors and potential information users, especially

the Grade 12 Computer System Servicing teachers, as they

will know what is the students attitude towards the subject

that they were teaching.

Teachers. Teachers will be given a great benefit in this

study for it will help them know what is the attitude

of their students towards a subject and for this

teachers can adjust themselves towards the students

that has a problem in his attitude.

Students. The outcome of this study will give the students

a benefit for they will know what attitude a student

have in a subject.

Researchers. The findings of the study will give them more

knowledge, widening their perspective on their own

research.

Future Researchers. They will be given some ideas,

guidelines and references in writing their studies.

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Definition of Terms

The following terms are defined by the

researchers to give clear and wide understanding of

the study.

Computer System Servicing (CSS). Refers to doing repairs

and maintenance on the physical components of a

computer and its peripherals.

Computer Systems Servicing Assessment. To assist the

Students skills and abilities which enables them to

have a bit experience about the computer system.

ICT. ICT or Information Communication Technology is a track

that is proposed in Camiguin National High School.

Attitude. Learned motivations, valued beliefs,

evaluations, what one believes is acceptable, or

responses oriented towards approaching or avoiding.

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CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Assessment is type of valuation which wants pupils to

vigorously achieve multifaceted and important tasks, while

transporting to tolerate previous wisdom, and recent

education and applicable services to resolve truthful

difficulties. It determines what students can do with what

they know (Barron and Hammond, 2008). Assessment has

charged or is changed to allow students to demonstrate

content as well procedural knowledge of a range of tasks;

assess a wider range of learning outcomes, assimilate

valuation with the programme and evaluate in more

trustworthy framework ( Bell and Cowie, 2001; Popham,

2012).

According to Bachman (2009), the term ‘assessment’ is

commonly used with a variety of different meanings. Indeed,

the term has come to be used so widely in many different

ways in the field of language testing. Many educationalists

however propose that assessment should be considered not

merely as a process for assessing students’ understanding,

but also as a learning process- one that teaches students

concepts and requires them to explain and communicate their

interpretations of the information, and their methodology

for solving problems (Morrison, McDuffie, & Akerson, 2008)

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The results indicated that students do change their

perceptions of assessment demands toward more deep level

in response to constructivist’ learning environment.

However, this change is not accompanied with similar change

in its approach to learning. On the contrary, students seem

to develop more surface approaches to learning during the

course. Students’ approach to learning at the beginning of

the course seems to have a higher impact on the extent to

which they change their approach to learning than how

students perceive the demands of the assessment (Gijbels

et al., (2008)

Contend that the assessment strategy of a particular

course has a major impact on student activity. It

influences the approach that students adopt towards their

learning, how much time they spend on their studies, how

widely they study the curriculum, and whether they grasp

the key concepts of the subject. There is also an evidence

of a significant, negative ‘backwash’ effect (Biggs & Tang,

2008) on student learning and achievement of poorly

conceived assessment strategies. Therefore, teachers who

neglect paying attention to their assessment practices

cannot coordinate students’ effort to enhance their

academic performance. (Maclellan, 2010 & Cavanagh, 2012)

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According to Dewey (2010) students learned best by

doing and experiencing which would enable them to become

aware and determine to solve problems, want to learn and

become more responsible for their learning. According to

Connelly, (2010) schools have always played a vital role

in ensuring that students have the skills needed for the

job or career they have chosen. Students are the essential

factors that every school should have. Without them, school

would make no sense. On the other hand, school activities

and outputs are the essence for each student to take up for

them to be called as students.

Therefore, the researchers conclude that every

evidence of students’ performance signifies the influence

for a hindrance that they should overcome. Every experience

enables them to be aware of every possible problems, and

gives elevation to things that they want to learn. This

emphasizes that those students involve in the conduct are

the main information for every process of the study. Their

conceptual understanding hastens, which only means that

they give value to the learning and knowledge. As they

value the things that are new to them, their interpretative

thinking skills elevates and masters their understanding

on how to solve complications on academic matter.

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CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

This chapter deals with the methods and procedures

used in this work to achieve the stipulated goals for the

study. This chapter highlights the following: research

design, locale of the study, population of the study,

data gathering procedure, research instrument used, and

statistical tools.

Research Design

This study will be utilizing the quantitative and

descriptive approaches to investigate the influence of

knowledge on students’ attitude towards computer system

servicing

Locale of the Study

This research study is conducted at Camiguin National

High School, that is located at Looc, Catarman, Camiguin.

The school offers Senior High School program and lot of

tracks, including the ICT program which has the Computer

System Servicing subject.

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Population of the Study

The total population of the ICT students that has

always attending the CSS subject is (34). The researchers

will utilize the complete enumeration count which involves

all the members listed in the sampling frame.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researchers will put together some question

regarding to the topic of the study and produce the

questionnaire allowing the researchers to float their

questionnaires to the respondents. After the approval, the

researchers will immediately administer and retrieve the

questionnaire to and from the respondents. After it has

been accomplished; it will be scored; tallied, tabulated

and interpreted.
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Instrument Used

For this research study, questionnaire was designed

for analyzing students’ attitude towards Computer System

Servicing. Researchers will utilize a self-made survey

questionnaires that will be answered by the respondents and

will help the researchers find data’s about the students’

attitude towards computer system servicing.

Validity and Reliability

The researchers will be using a survey questionnaire

as the main tool for this study. To test the validity of

the modified questionnaire, the researchers will be

conducting a pre-test to all the assessment passers. Three

weeks after, the researchers will be conducting post-test.

The resulting data will be subjected to correlation

analysis applying spearman-rank correlation. The

Questionnaires was constructed by the researchers. It will

be pretested among the Grade 11 ICT students in Camiguin

National High School for the validity and reliability of

the questionnaire.

Statistical Tool
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To aid in the analysis and interpretation of data, the

following statistical measures will be employed.

1. Mean, Frequency, and Standard Deviation. This will be

used to describe the respondents’ academic level.

2. Spearman-Rank Correlation. This tool will be used to

determine the reliability of the instrument used.

3. Chi-Square Test for Independence. This statistical

measure will be used to provide evidence of an

association between students’ attitude computer

system servicing in the numbers of students who will

take the CSS Assessment.

Scoring Guideline

This research will be using a likert scale method. For

measuring the responses related to the students’ attitude,

a five-point Likert Scale will be used in scoring the

responses.
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