“THE EXPERIENCES OF THE NDC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

IN ACADEMIC LEARNING IN THE NEW NORMAL”

In Partial Fulfillment

Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion

A Research Study

Presented to Mr. Rigel Villaver

North Davao Colleges

by:

Sandy Glaire Somoso

Zhyra Abayato

Izzy Beltran

Hannah Josol

Alvina Preach Miranda

Eiji Capiroso

Johnson Wu

May 2022
 Introduction

“Education is a key to success”. In a student’s life, Education is nothing but a constant

pressure in the current scenario. With the continuous stress of completing the given

assignments before the deadline or preparing projects which is really not that useful for us,

children and their parents and teachers often tend to forget what is education, the importance

of education in life and how to impart education within the minds of the students rather than

just making them fill their notebooks like a robot. Though the education system all over the

world has taken a great leap and includes various methods of creative learning for the

students, yet the present education system entails a lot of drawbacks with it. Even with the

grading system being introduced to almost every other country, students still chase behind

scoring parameters rather than focusing on the essence of learning. (Adams, 2019)

The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought many changes to the world especially in the

education system. According to the analysis of UNICEF, schools in thePhilippines, Panama

and Bangladesh kept their schools closed for the longest, because of the increasing cases of

COVID19 victims. In total there are 131 million students in 11countries who have missed

more than three quarters of their face to face learning. School closures have created a shadow

crisis for the learner including the struggles they’ve experienced in home based learning and

in online learning.

Education is a solid foundation of life because it develops important life skills that are

useful in growing up. Students commonly experience struggles at school, normally it is part of

learning but because of COVID 19 Pandemic, the struggles being experienced by the students
are uncontrollable. It leads to mental breakdown and lack of opportunities to learn. The

COVID 19 Pandemic has a devastating impact in all aspects of human life, in a span of weeks

we all have been affected; it crashed economies, challenged our living and brought a

permanent effect on the education system. It turned out to be something like a whirlpool that

destroyed us with no warning but the government is doing precautionary measures to stop the

virus from spreading. This all resulted in schools being shut down. Globally, there are 1.2

billion total students in 186 countries are out of the classroom, this all resulted in independent

learning at home.

Behavior and attitude of students in the new normal perspectives have an impact in their

learning process. It contributes to self-determination in the new normal classes and framework

theory of learning engagement and supports the influence of the new normal classes and

learning perspective development. The study examines how the observed behavior and

attitude of students in the new normal perspective of learning and identify how the behavior

and attitude of students can be addressed in the new normal perspective of learning among the

respondents. The study employs the qualitative descriptive phenomenology research design

and method. It is a scientific and philosophy method that undertakes the variation of the study.

It is a typical method of data collection involved in the Focus Group Discussion (FGD),

observation, document review of specific events. The study comprised 14 parents as

respondents. Results show that behavior and attitude of students during their online learning

classes are lazy to study, wake-up late in the scheduled time of their classes, students are

enjoying their sleep in the morning, lack of sleep, and are hungry because they have not eaten

their breakfast during their online classes. Moreover, adjustment in online classes show that it

is very early, students are not used for online classes, students are not serious in their studies,

and students have difficulties in their online classes, while internet issues show that students
 encounter slow connection, busy doing online game aside from their online classes, and

insufficient load for internet connection.

Theoretical Lenses

There is broad writing contrasting the qualities and shortcomings of internet instructing

versus up close and personal educating. Now with standing and shortcoming of internet

instructing the assessment of under studies with respect to the two modalities. Brownstein and

Gerlowski (2008) thought about the various modalities utilizing an appraisal rubric for two

understudy articles. They found that learning results were similarly vigorous in one or the other

organization. Gibson (2008) analyzed and observes that the eye to eye understudies did

somewhat better than the web-based understudies. Chen and Jones (2007) inspected two

segments of a course, one helped eye to eye, the other showed principally on the web and

observes that the two courses had comparative last learning results.

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the experiences of North Davao

Colleges Senior High School Students in academic learning in the new normal and how they

came up with the new learning strategy to continue their study despite of the situation.

Research Questions

1. How do the experiences of the SHS students during the new normal affect their studies?
2. What are the disadvantages of having a class in new normal?
3. How do the students handle the new normal teaching method?
Significance of the Study

The researchers believe that this study is important. The study’s finding could be utilized

to determine the experiences of NDC Senior High School Students.

TEACHERS: The researchers believe that by this study they can implement new strategic

method to help the student’s performance in their studies. The teachers would be able to know

the experiences of the students and will later on help them.

STUDENTS: This study will help the students on becoming more responsible and effective

student on fulfilling their responsibility.

PARENTS: It will give the parents an understanding on the academic experiences of their

children in the new normal situation.

ADMINISTATION: This study will be beneficial, for this will enable them to find ways in

enhancing the learning methods inside the campus.

FUTURE RESEARCHERS: They can improve this study to have a much better

outcome. This can be a source if connected to their future studies.

Definition of Terms

Experiences- direct personal participation in events.

NDC- North Davao Colleges: A place or locale where the research is conducted.

Students- grade 11-12 students of NDC as respondents

Academic Learning- It is a skill or knowledge that is taught in schools as part of the general

curriculum.

New Normal- a circumstance in which the entire globe is confronted with and taking happening

in order to continue doing what we normally do.

 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter is a discussion of the pieces of literature and the result of other related

research to which the present study is related or has some bearing similarities.

Amidst the coronavirus outbreak, many countries are encountering a dramatic situation in

terms of the global economy and human social activities, including education (Tang et al.2020).

Education is responsible for shaping a person, just as individuals play the most significant role in

shaping the status of a country. As a result, education is the backbone of any country (Bansal,

2020) and the COVID-19 Pandemic has given everyone a chance to pave the road for digital

learning to be introduced (Dhawan, 2020). Moreover, schools have changed from traditional

face-to-face classroom instruction to flexible learning and virtual classrooms, wherein learners

must overcome various challenges (Tria, 2020). The said pandemic outbreak poses serious

concerns to global and local education system. Efforts to contain COVID-19 triggered the

unscheduled closure of schools in more than 100 countries throughout the world, resulting in the

absence of nearly one billion students (Onyema, 2020). In a study by Plakhotnik et al (2021),

they study the impact of the pandemic on university students living worldwide. It concentrates

on the students well-being which has been found to be as crucial to students’ lifelong prosperity

as their educational achievement (Bates and Boren, 2019). It was found and revealed that this

major crisis negatively influences student’s well-being and their interests in their studies.

Identical to a research article by Almendingen et al. (2021), it is aimed to analyze how university

students perceived the unexpected shift to online teaching during campus closure due to the

Covid-19 outbreak. In May 2020, students in Public Health Nutrition completed questionnaires
after two and twelve weeks and took part in digital focus group consultations. After two weeks

of lockdown, 75% of students said their lived had become more stressful and difficult, and 50%

thought learning outcomes would be harder to attain as a result of the abrupt move to online

schooling. According to a research article written by Amir et al. (2020) which explores the

perspectives of classroom and distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic in Dental

University Students in Indonesia, they investigated the preferences of most of the students based

on the situation during this pandemic. The result revealed that a greater quantity of students

preferred classroom learning for group discussions, as distance learning resulted in more difficult

communication and gave less learning satisfaction because it is associated with challenges.

According to Pham (2021), these challenges included external factors such as unstable internet

connection, the extra financial burden for the internet allowance and internal factors such as time

management and difficulty concentrating while comprehending online for a longer period of

time. Tipon et al. (2021) investigated the relationship between self-efficacy and academic

motivation of senior high school students from public schools amidst the new normal of

education in the Philippines due to challenges such as internet connectivity, overload of lesson

activities, financial-related issues, lack of resources for online classes, and mental health-related

problems. The findings demonstrated a high level of self-efficacy, implying that Senior High

Students remained in high and intended to complete their school tasks and other activities.

Access, cost, flexibility, and approach are the vastly new normal learning difficulties (Silva,

2021). Moreover, the absence of social connection, housing accommodations inappropriate for

some office tasks, particularly inadequate data bandwidth, and an overall sense of lost desire and

effort were the most prominent difficulties among students in different regions (Jandric, 2020)

and it shows that students who struggle to engage in online learning or who lack of reliable

internet connection and resources are said to be falling behind (Jeantheau, 2020). However, a
growing number of resources have been produced with recommendations on how to best

implement recovery programs, such as scaling up tutoring, summer learning programs, and

extended learning time (Kuhfeld et al. 2022).

The Coronavirus pandemic influences global understudy portability as a rule, albeit the

degree changes due to sociocultural, conservative, and political complexities for various

gatherings of worldwide understudies. Specialists and teachers have made fast moves to inspect

the effect of the pandemic on Chinese understudies or global Chinese undergrads' instructive

results and emotional wellness during the Coronavirus pandemic. For instance, Chi et al. (2020)

analyzed the predominance and chance variables for poor emotional well-being of Chinese

college understudies by directing a cross country online study of north of 2000 understudies in

China and viewed that as more than 30% of respondents showed side effects of posttraumatic

stress jumble. Yu et al. (2021) did a comparative study on Chinese undergrads and their

outcomes were significantly more disturbing with practically 57% of respondents (n = 1681)

demonstrating burdensome side effects. Contrasted with these understudies in China, worldwide

Chinese understudies experienced more difficulties that could affect their emotional well-being.

Utilizing electronic exploration, Wang (2020) exhibited different unpleasant circumstances

Chinese global understudies in the U. S. experienced at the early and later phases of Coronavirus.

In the beginning phase when the infection was first found in China, Chinese worldwide

understudies got analysis for "bat eating", loading up facial veils to send back home, and the

Wuhan lockdown. In the later stage, when the episode of Coronavirus began in the U.S., Chinese

worldwide understudies got going against messages. Families and companions encouraged them

to return to China (when China had balanced out the circumstance). In any case, rare trips

between the two nations suggested that understudies ought to remain in the U.S. to stay away

from the spread of the infection in the two nations (Mama and Mill operator, 2020). Different
difficulties of strategy changes incorporated the chance of being not able to get back to the U.S.

because of the movement boycott forced by the U.S. government and the danger of being

powerfully sent back to their nations of origin without a trace of face to face class enlistment. As

Wang (2020) specified, "This gathering of worldwide understudies is the recipient of

globalization and global training trade yet seeing the pattern of hostile to globalization and

patriotism.

From the presentation of the Chinese Service of Training's "Home Study" Drive in mid-

February 2020, eye to eye guidance generally stopped what's more, around 180 million Chinese

essential and auxiliary school understudies started going to classes on the web, under confined

internet based schooling approaches indicated by individual area, district, or independent locale

(MoE, 2020). The resulting spread of Coronavirus all over the planet has seen more nations join

China in shutting schools and executing on the web training for a gigantic scope. Starting at 13

April 2020, the world has seen more than 194 cross country school terminations influence over

1.5 billion essential, lower-auxiliary, and upper-optional understudies (UNESCO, 2020a). As

indicated by UNESCO Chief General Audrey Azoulay, "the worldwide scale and speed of the

present instructive interruption is unrivaled" (UNESCO, 2020b). Nonetheless, with the headway

of data and correspondence advancements, huge scope internet learning has turned into an

achievable method for moderating such disturbance.

 CHAPTER 3

METHODS

This chapter presents a description of research design, participants, sampling, data sources,

collection of data, analysis and interpretation of data, trustworthiness and ethical considerations.

Reseach Design

This study describes how the researchers addressed the crisis; a qualitative

phenomenological research design was used by the researcher. This design is used to study a

person's own experiences with a certain issue. The major goal of a phenomenology research,

according to Christensen, Johnson, and Turner (2010), is to explain the meaning, structure, and

substance of a person's or a group of people's lived experiences surrounding specific phenomena.

It strives to comprehend people's point of views, understanding, and perceptions of a certain

topic. The issue being examined in this instance is the experiences of NDC SHS students in

academic learning in the new normal. Because this is a relatively common occurrence nowadays.

Participants

There are 10 participants of the study, 3 students from Grade 11 STEM, 2 students from

Grade 12 STEM, 2 student from Grade 11 HUMSS and 3 students from grade 12 HUMSS. In

choosing the respondents of our study, we’ve established criteria. First the participants must be a

Senior High School Students of North Davao Colleges, Inc. Second they must have experience

the traditional way of teaching and in the new normal. Lastly, the participants must be an active

students that experience challenges upon the shift of face-to-face learning to virtual online
learning or modular. The researchers utilized random sampling technique. The participants in

this study were selected at random and purely by chance.

Data Sources

Key Informant Interview involved interviewing people who have particularly experienced and

the program or study being evaluated. Pact, Inc. (2014). The interviews as conducted for over a

month among the Senior High School Students of North Davao Colleges who have experienced

the new mode of learning. All the interviews were recorded and lasted for 15 minutes or less.

Collection of Data

The data was being gathered through Key Informant Interview, which entails asking questions

about the study that have been approved by the instructors. And was done via messenger calls

and voice messages. Since the participants have had prior experience, they can supply the

necessary data as well as their insights instantly. The data was collected in the following manner:

first, the researchers obtained the participants' agreement via a letter requesting for permission to

participate that was delivered to the participants as well as the school where they were studying.

After obtaining permission from the school and the intended participants, the researchers were

able to schedule an interview at a time and medium that was most suitable to them.

Analysis and Interpretation of Data

Data interpretation is the process of reviewing data and presenting meaningful conclusions using

a variety of analytical approaches. Data interpretation aids researchers in categorizing,

manipulating, and summarizing data in order to answer important questions. Calzon, (2022)
Specifically, I will employ Anderson and Spencer (2002)'s procedures for data analysis, which

include selecting noteworthy statements, composing formed meanings, and identifying recurring

themes.

Trustworthiness. The degree of confidence in data, interpretation, and procedures employed to

ensure the quality of a study is referred to as the study's trustworthiness or rigor (Pilot & Beck,

2014). Researchers must establish the methodologies and procedures required for a research to

be considered valid of readers' attention (Amankwaa, 2016).

To ensure trustworthiness, the researchers will make sure that all information gathered and

written are credible and based on facts and will not alter or change any answers given by the

participants.

Credibility. The degree to which a research account is believable and appropriate, with special

reference to the amount of agreement between participants and the researcher, is referred to as

credibility. The paradigm provided by Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba is most typically

connected with the concept of credibility. It is one of the researchers highest goals to secure the

study's credibility, which will do by following methodical processes based on past researchers

and research specialists.

To ensure the study's authenticity, I'll make certain that the participants are qualified to provide

the information required. The interview methodology that will be used to question will be

examined and validated by reliable individuals prior to the interview. The researchers will use a

checking approach in which participants are invited to verify and evaluate the translation of their

responses, and the researcher will make thorough attempts to come up with congruent

interpretations in order to ensure the study's credibility.

Transferability. It refers to how a qualitative researcher shows that the findings of a study may

be applied to similar contexts, people, or phenomena. Researchers can utilize extensive

explanations to demonstrate that the findings of a research study can be applied to different

locations, events, and scenarios.

Dependability. This study aims to describe the quality of services on-site at the Library of the

Faculty of Education during the period new normal. The population of this research is active

students in the Faculty of Education. Success and withdrawal rates for face-to-face and online

courses are compared to those for BL as they interact with minority status. Investigation of

student perception about course excellence revealed the existence of robust if-then decision rules

for determining how students evaluate their educational experiences. Those rules were

independent of course modality, perceived content relevance, and expected grade. The authors

conclude that although blended learning preceded modern instructional technologies, its

evolution will be inextricably bound to contemporary information communication technologies

that are approximating some aspects of human thought processes.

Confirmability. A qualitative research is examined and rechecked throughout the data gathering

and analysis process, the results are more likely to be replicable by others. A precise coding

scheme that identifies the codes and patterns found in analysis can be used to prove this. Finally,

prior to analysis, a data audit can assure dependability.

The researchers made sure that every phase of data analysis was highlighted in order to provide

justification for the judgments made. This ensures that the conclusions of the study appropriately

reflect the answers of the participants.

Ethical Considerations. Facial recognition software, which has been repeatedly shown to be both

biased and problematic in public spaces, is one of the most concerning technologies being used

in public spaces.

From an ethical standpoint, there is a spectrum of potential breaches that could occur, ranging

from being observed or monitored in a public space to using recognition software to identify

faces or even clothing brands, to targeting specific individuals or demographics, to potentially

focusing on individual messaging or location-based marketing. Each of these represents an

increase in privacy concerns, and they blur the distinction between public and private spaces,

which philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas (1991) and Hannah Arendt (1998) have

investigated through questions of ownership and property

Anonymity. One type of secrecy is anonymity, which is defined as keeping participants'

identities hidden. In most cases, however, in-depth qualitative research would be impossible to

do without violating anonymity in the sense that researchers not only know the identities of

participants, but also meet them in person. To protect the participants' identities, I'll assign them

codenames.

Confidentiality. Confidentiality in the relationship between researchers and research subjects

should be seen as both the researcher's responsibility and the research subject's rights. Everyone

has the right to deny others access to certain sorts of personal information. Personal data might

be actively exploited as a result, thus individuals must be respected.

Confidentiality refers to the restriction of information to those who have been allowed access to

it. Access control is only one part of secrecy. It's also critical for researchers to protect the

privacy of their research subjects.

Informed Consent. The following contents are included in informed consent: the study's

purpose and background, the respondents participation including the participant's right to

withdraw from the study at any time without adverse action to be taken, the benefits and risks,

and the assurance that the data collected will only be accessed by researchers and their

supervisors. Moreover, the informed consent will help to ensure the confidentiality of the study's

data and will serve as a kind of agreement between the study's researchers, the respondents, and

the researchers' supervisors.

Chapter IV

Result and Discussion

The outcomes of the three study questions are presented and discussed in this part. It begins with
senior high school students' experiences during the new normal, then moves on to how their
experiences affect their studies, and finally, how they handle the new teaching technique. For
each question, thematic maps were constructed.

Experiences of senior high school Students during the new norma;

SIGNIFICANT CODE FORMULATED

STATEMENTS MESSAGES

Ang pinaka critical The most critical experience

experience para nako na that senior high school
natagamtaman sa senior high students have is adjusting to
school students is ang pag the fact that, rather than
adjust kay dili man gud face-to-face classes,
lalim nang mag adjust ka everything is now done
gikan sa isa ka butang na through Google. It was
naanad na into something challenging but senior high
new like instead na face to school students gradually
face, everything is on google adjusted.
meet nalang so kanah na
experience though somehow
lisod sya pero habang
nagkadugay is nagka adjust
napud ang mga senior high
school students.

There are others who have Senior high school students

difficulty because they can't have challenges because they
experience exactly the are unable to participate in
classes they want. the classes that they desire.

For the most part it was It was good and more relax
good, much more chill and compared to face to face
relax than the face to face classes, the downside though
classes, the downside though is everyone is mostly
is you are mostly isolated. In isolated and it often lead to
my experience, it lead to many battles with mental
many battles with mental health.
health.

Learning online maybe For senior high school

handy for those who have a students, learning online is
stable and liable Internet only convenient if you have
provider but for others, the a stable internet connection.
distraction cause by laggish If you have issues with
Internet connectivity causes internet connection, this may
them to fall behind in their lead you to fall behind in
lessons and so we learn in your lessons. However,
physical interaction senior high school students
activities in which we can had significantly improve
only acquire in traditional their academic performance
context. However, there are and technological
also a positive effect to this, innovation.
students had significantly
improve their academic
performance and it had also
improve our technological
innovation.

In my case, I have to help Senior high school students

my siblings with their have dealt with a variety of
studies and do household distractions, and they are
chores at the same time I also having difficulty
also have trouble managing managing their time and
my time and I am struggling dealing with a lack of sleep.
with lack of sleep.
New normal is way different Everyone is struggling to
from the face to face that we adapt to the new learning
got use to, because new approach. There are,
normal is virtual and we however, tools that could
learn through cellphone or help with this new learning
laptop but we got style challenge.
technologies that could aid
the new normal style of
learning.
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