Chapter IV
Methodology
Research Design
The researchers will implement the simple descriptive design which will
examine the effects of romantic relationships on students’ academic
performance. This design will use survey questionnaires which will be
distributed to the respondents in order to attain the main objectives of
the study. The survey or the research itself will try to describe,
analyze and interpret the status of the respondents.
The
design is a non-experimental correlation research. The two main
variables to be evaluated are general weighted average and romantic
relationship.
Respondents and Locale of the Study
The
research will be conducted at the University of the Philippines Cebu
College during the first semester, academic year 2011-2012 at Lahug,
Cebu City.
There will be 10 respondents who will take part in the study. The
population will consist of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 2
students from University of the Philippines who will participate in
strictly voluntary basis.
Sampling Procedure
The
researchers will make use of the selective sampling method in the
selection of the respondents since the study is focused on a particular
group (students involved in romantic relationship). Second
year BSCS students who were involved in a relationship in the A.Y.
2010-2011 will become the respondents of the study. Since there are only
10 students who met this criteria, these 10 students will be the
respondents of the study.
Data Collection
The gathering of data for this study utilized a self-administered
descriptive questionnaire because it economizes our time and effort and
it has the ability to maintain respondent’s confidentiality.
The respondents will be given survey questionnaires to provide the
necessary data needed in the study. After gathering the data, the
researchers will group the responses according to the sub-problems of
the study. An interview to one of the respondents will also be conducted
to give explanation or support to their responses.
Instrumentation
In order to answer specific sub-problems in our study, survey
questionnaires will be distributed to the respondents. Interview to one
of our respondents will also be conducted to confirm the results of the
survey.
The
survey questionnaires will consist of a broad range of questions aimed
at gauging the students’ involvement in romantic relationship and its
adverse effects on their academic achievement. Each questionnaire will
have 3 parts. The first part of the questionnaire will regard the
profile of the respondent (i.e., name, gender, gwa). The second part
will comprise the status of time management of the respondent. The third
and fourth part will consider the levels of motivation and anxiety of
the respondent as a student. These two last parts are in Likert scale
form in which respondents will be tasked to indicate whether they
strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree or strongly disagree in the
given statements.
Statistical Treatment of Data
Data that will be collected will be converted to percentage and will be
presented in tabular and graphical forms for simple interpretation.
1. To determine the profile of the respondents in terms of gender and grade point average, percentage will be used:
Formula:
P=FN X 100
Where:
P= Percentage
F= Frequency
N= No. of respondents
Formula:
x= f(x)N
Where:
x = mean
∑f(x) = Total scores of students
N = No. of respondents
- To find the significant relationship between the grade point average and time management, the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation (r) will be used.
Formula:
r = n xy- xy[ n x2 - x]2 [n y2- (y)]2
r = n xy- xy[ n x2 - x]2 [n y2- (y)]2
Where:
r = the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation
n = sample size
∑x = summation of x
∑y = summation of y
∑x2 = sum of squares of x
∑y2 = sum of squares of y
4. To find the significant relationship between levels of
motivation/levels of anxiety and academic performance, chi-square test
of independence will be used.
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