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Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Cavite City
Cavite City
ABSTRACT
The nutrition of the child is one of the most important aspects that enable them to
study properly and perform their duties within and outside of the school. Health once
neglected, can greatly affect the performance of the child in his class. Attendance
particularly on absences is the most evident result of malnutrition in students. One of the
programs of DepEd is the school feeding program for undernourished students. The
student that is classified as wasted or severely wasted are the priority target of this
program. The tool used to determine if the student is undernourished is the nutritional
status report. This survey is performed from the beginning (June to July) and end
(February to March) of the school year.
This study has determined the effectiveness of the computer program developed
in Microsoft Excel that will automatically compute the age, body mass index (BMI) and
classify it according to the five categories namely; severely wasted, wasted, normal,
overweight and obese.
I.
age. The use of IRS in the assessment of Nutritional Status (NS) reflects the maximum
growth potential of children without limiting the competitive potential within the
boundaries of their country. The reports of the NS of children shall be submitted to the
School Health and Nutrition Centre before the 15th of October for the baseline data; and
15th of April, of the following year for the endline data. The revised Nutritional Status
Report Forms (NSRF) instructions on how to use the revised form and the International
Growth Tables shall be used for ready reference and possible replication at the local
level.
II.
III.
IV.
Excellent
3.51 - 4.50
Very Good
2.51 - 3.50
Good
1.51 - 2.50
Fair
1.00 1.50
Poor
Teacher I
(7) 44%
Teacher III
(4) 25%
Master Teacher
(1) 6%
6 years and
above
(6) 38%
With Masters
Unit
(6) 38%
D. Duration for finishing the Nutritional Status Report using the manual
method
more
than
4 days
100%
E. Duration for finishing the Nutritional Status Report using the Semi - manual
method
3 Days
3%
F. Duration for finishing the Nutritional Status Report using the computerbased program method
1 hour
(2) 13%
Indicators
Mean
SD
Description
4.81
0.397
Excellent
4.88
0.336
Excellent
5.00
0.000
Excellent
5.00
0.000
Excellent
5.00
0.000
Excellent
4.94
0.150
Excellent
OVERALL MEAN
Legend:
Mean Range
4.51 - 5.00
3.51 - 4.50
2.51 - 3.50
1.51 - 2.50
1.00 1.50
Description
Strongly Agree
Agree
Uncertain
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
Interpretation
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor
The above table reveals that the overall mean of effectiveness of the computer
based program for accomplishing the Nutritional Status Report as perceived by the
teachers was Excellent (
= 4.94).
As the table shows that the teacher respondents perceived the program that is
easy to use obtained a mean of (
that includes the accuracy of the data generated, identifying the student with nutrition
deficiency and recommending the program to other teachers all obtained a mean of (
V.
The abovementioned results and evaluation confirms the hypothesis why the
teachers finds difficulty in finishing the Nutritional Status Report is that the manual
process really takes too much of their time and effort, even with the presence of
machines like calculator still their other task like lesson planning, preparing visual aids
and formulating strategies hinders them to immediately finish the said report.
On the other hand, the results also proved the effectiveness of the computerbased program developed in Microsoft Excel. Most of the respondents finish the task in
less than an hour. This can be attributed to the software program because it
automatically computes the actual age and body mass index (BMI) of the student and at
the same time it automatically categorize the BMI unlike before that the teachers have to
look on a table of values and locate the category of BMI that they have obtained from the
students.
Furthermore, the software program also summarizes the total breakdown of the
BMI that makes it easy to produce the Baseline and Endline or the Division Summary for
the Nutritional Status Report.
VI.
1. The program must be implemented to replace the old method of producing the
report to enhance productivity of teachers and to minimize the time and effort in
accomplishing the said report.
2. A seminar or meeting must be conducted in the division to disseminate the
information to all the elementary schools on how to use the computer-based
program so they can also benefit from the features of the program.
3. It is recommended that this study be replicated in other schools or division to
validate the results.
Dear Respondents,
Please share some information about yourself. The data will be a great help in
my research study. Please answer all the questions below by checking the column that
corresponds to your opinion.
Your answer will be treated confidentially and that your name will not be
specified.
Thank you,
The Researcher
I.
Teachers Profile
Place a check ( ) that corresponds to your answer
1. Position / Designation
(
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Teacher I
Teacher II
Teacher III
Master Teacher
Head Teacher
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below 5 years
6 to 10 years
11 to 15 years
16 to 20 years
21 years and above
3. Educational Attainment
(
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Bachelor degree
Units in Masters Degree
Masters Degree
Units in Doctors Degree
Doctors Degree
2. Years in service:
II.
and
computerized
method
of
Provided that you do your regular routine as a teacher and assigned to submit the nutritional
status report comprising 20 male and 20 female students and .
1. If you are to manually compute the age, BMI and classify the students BMI, how long will
it take you?
( ) -
1 day
( ) -
2 days
( ) -
3 days
( ) -
4 days
( ) -
2. If you are to use a calculator to compute the age, BMI and classify the students BMI,
how long will it take you?
( ) -
1 day
( ) -
2 days
( ) -
3 days
( ) -
4 days
( ) -
3. After using the software program, how long does it take you to finish the task
of computing the age, BMI and classify the students BMI?
( ) -
( ) -
I hour
( ) -
2 hours
( ) -
3 hours
( ) -
III.
Directions: Please indicate your honest observation of the following statements obtained
in your school by checking the number that corresponds to its presence following the
scale below
Legend:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Uncertain
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
Indicators
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor
5
Comments/ Suggestions
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RESEARCHER:
JESTER C. NICODEMUS
DIVISION ICT COORDINATOR
DEPED CAVITE CITY
July 3, 2012
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Memorandum
DepEd Order no. 21, s. 2003, The use of the International Reference Standard (IRS) in
Determining the Nutritional Status (NS) of Filipino Children, March 25, 2003.
DECS Order no. 41, s. 1995, Utilizing the 1995 FNRI-PPS Tables in Determining the
Nutritional Status of School Children, July 3, 1995.
MEC Memorandum no. 33, s. 1980, Survey on the Nutritional Status of Filipino Public
School Children., February 7, 1980
MEC Memorandum no. 130, s. 1979, A Study on the Nutritional Status of Filipino Public
School Children., May 17, 1979