The Effect of Traffic to the Students of ICT 12-6 S.Y.

2017-2018
Introduction

The government and other stakeholders including parents and educators are constantly
searching and formulating for the best solutions that will improve education system provide
education for all. One of the solutions to access and attain quality education for young generation
is the establishment of community secondary schools. The prosperity of those community
secondary schools in accomplishing their initial obligation of cultivating and socializing students
depend on students to attend school routinely and punctually. According to Jones (2006)
attendance is priority for educators. Good attendance will demonstrate to educators that a person
that needs help, what changes in educating to make, which practices are to be encouraged or
smothered and which schools need to improve. Committed facilitators take the student’s
attendance before instructing their subjects to have a record of the quantity of students who
attended the class. Additionally, parents and school authority use student attendance to monitor,
supervise the students’ activities in schools.
Students are required to be present in school so that they will benefit greatly from the
academic program in its totality. Poor attendance of students is a great obstacle in achieving
quality education for graduates hence to affect community development. Student nonattendance
is a problem that spreads outside the school. It will affect the students, their family, and the
community. This research examines the factors that affect road traffic for the students of ICT 12-
6 and their effects on school attendance in community secondary school in Polytechnic
University of the Philippines, Sta. Mesa, Manila, Metropolitan Manila, National Capital Region,
Philippines. It is aimed on how the road traffic affect the student academic performance.
 Background of the Study

Regular school attendance is a crucial factor in education success. It is critically

important since students who miss school or skip subject miss out on carefully planned
sequences of instructions. This study investigates transportation problems of students in ICT 12-
6 that are crucially affected. Road transportation is the major system of transporting is going to
PUP Main, student uses various kinds of vehicles as means of transport. According to LTFRB
(2006) most of the student in the country rely on road transport for their daily commutation as
well as the conveyance of raw materials and food commodities. Statistics show that about 96%
of the country’s freight use road transport. With such a high reliance on road transport, majority
of Ghanaian entrepreneurs are of the view that the most lucrative business venture today is
transport operation, because everyone is bound to travel at least twice a month either for
economic or social activity notwithstanding, whether this assertion is true or not, is left to the
public to judge.

Theoretical Framework

Previous studies have indicated that transport problems for students stimulate bad
behaviors including sexual relationships with adults due long distance a student travel to and
from school.
Transport accessibility may motivate not only student regularly school attendance but
also punctuality and good health to learn; since motivation is generally regarded as being
associated to human needs that in turn motivates learning behavior which may lead quality
education. Geographically theory such as Central Place Theory can support learning behavior.
The theory was originally published in 1993 by a German. Wiki (2012) described that central
place theory is a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people 14 attracted
from the surrounding areas. The central place is so called because it is centrally located to
maximize accessibility from the surrounding regions. Central places compete against each other
to serve as markets for goods and services.
According to central place theory all areas have similar purchasing power of all
consumers (students) and consumers will patronize the nearest market (school). Students should
attend the nearest school which provide service that they intend to require and not to travel a
long distance to find the same service which is provided within their communities (wards). The
theory also assumes that transportation costs equal in all directions and proportional to distance.
Some students consume a lot of money on transport to and from school while others are getting
education in low costs. This theory will balance transport cost so as to reduce financial burden to
students from low income earning families and motivates parents to support their children to
attend to school regularly. The central place theory involves transport principle which states that
the distribution of central places is most advantageous when as many important places as
possible lie in one traffic route between two important towns, the route being established as
straight and as cheap as possible and clients select the nearest outlet that carries a desired service
(Chen, 2010). Eppli and Benjamin (1994) used central place theory in their study on the
evaluating of shopping center; most respondents indicate that they traveled to the nearest center
to purchase convenience goods and services from the nearest location, this 15 can be useful for
supporting students to study in their communities to decrease unnecessary movement which
involve harshness, wastage of learning time and financial burden.

Conceptual Framework

figure1
 Statement of the problem
Road traffic is one of the major problem facing students to attend their classes at specific
time due to distance where the schools allocated. Day by day, being stuck in road traffic might
be what each driver and commuter would like to keep distance from. With the quick-paced
increment of car proprietorship in Metro Manila alone, cresting a maximum of 2,101,148
enlisted vehicles as of late in light of LTO think about, include the citizen-noted failure of a few
drivers to obey the law, the road traffic congestion has been perceived to have intensified
contrasted with earlier years (Inquirer, 2015). It is really hard for most students to arrive to
school punctually in the morning as adult people and bus operators compete with them to board
on public buses and public utility vehicles (Onyango, 2012).
The following are the problems which the researchers aimed to answer and solve at the
end of the research. Also, these questions served as the center of the course of the research.
Road Traffic on Studies
Road Traffic on Punctuality of the Student
Pagpasok sa tamang oras ng klase
Pakikisalamuha

Hypothesis
The researchers assume to find that students will be affected by transportation problem
mentally, physically and economically. It is not fair to let a student to spend a lot of energy, time
and money to travel to seek education far away while the same schools that some students
remain at the bus stop for long time waiting for transport to and from schools. These conclusion
leads some students to be blamed at their homes due to early to school and late at arrival at
home.
The students cannot avoid public transport due to lack of alternatives means such as
bicycle or school buses which may help to reduce students’ harassment from public jeeps or
buses. Improving access and quality education may not be easy and some of the students cannot
be able to meet them in community secondary schools if government might not plan alternatives
transport for students.
 Significance of the Study
The significance of this study is to give awareness to its readers pertaining on the issue
regarding the effects of road traffic to the students of ICT 12-6. Everyone mostly students, must
be involved and informed regarding to this problem that occurs within our society. The
researchers also chose this topic accordance to finding solutions, for the beneficial of the mass.
For the students, the study will have the knowledge and the capacity to satisfy their
insight about the effect of read traffics with their academic performances.
For the professors, the study will enable them to extend and have extra learning about
these issues.
For the researcher, the research will help them to find hypotheses concerning the effect of
road traffic in performing certain roles of adolescence.
For the future researchers, this research will serve them as a source of perspective in
leading their exploration.

Scope and Limitation

This research only covers the effect of traffic to the selected students of Information and
Communications Technology 12-6.
The researchers will seek at least 25 selected respondents that belongs to the 12th Grade
students of Information and Communication Technology which is under the Technical-
Vocational-Livelihood (Tech-Voc) as the primary source of data and information.

Definition of terms
ICT – Information Communication Technology Traffic - vehicles moving on a road or public
highway.
LTFRB - The Philippines' Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (Filipino:
Lupon sa Pagpaprangkisa at Regulasyon ng Transportasyong-Lupa), abbreviated as LTFRB, is
an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation responsible for
promulgating, administering, enforcing, and monitoring compliance of policies, laws, and
regulations of public land transportation services.
Road Traffic - The definition of a road traffic accident occurs when a vehicle that is moving
along a roadway collides with another vehicle or object. When you run a red light and hit a car
going in the other direction, this is an example of a road traffic accident.
LTO - The Land Transportation Office (Filipino: Tanggapan ng Transportasyong-Lupa; LTO) is
an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation and is
responsible for all land transportation in the Philippines, especially implementing transportation
laws, rules and regulations.
 CHAPTER 2:
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter highlights the Effect of Traffic in the performance of the student of
Polytechnic University of the Philippines. The materials presented which includes in this
research are the opinions, principles, and theories of different people are obtained to relate and
be used in the study.
How do we feel about traffic? That’s no-brainer. We hate it. And we feel the same for
its synonyms which all mean that were going to be late for school again, words like “gridlock
and “congestion”. Anyone who has ever visited, worked in or lived in the Philippines would
know how bad the traffic jams are in the cities, particularly Quezon City, Manila City and
Makati.