We all run late sometimes.

For your child, arriving late to school occasionally won't cause major
disruption. Inevitably, kids will feel sick or tired some mornings, or other situations will prevent them
from being on time. But chronic lateness eventually takes its toll on a child's overall educational
experience. According to the national initiative Attendance Works, missing just 10 percent of the school
year in the early grades causes many students to struggle in elementary school, and lateness in later
grades is associated with increased failure and dropout rates. Fortunately, parents can help prevent
tardiness from becoming frequent enough to negatively impact their child's school life.

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Disrupted Routines

One of the most important aspects of school is that it is organized, scheduled and predictable. Students
depend on the structure of the day. They know where they have to be and when. They know the main
purpose for being in school is to learn and that routines are in place precisely to help them focus on that
learning. When students are repeatedly tardy, these routines are disrupted. Children who are often late
have trouble settling in and mastering routines. Tardiness can throw off their whole morning or even
their day, especially if the late commute to school was stressful.

Social Criticism

The social experience has a powerful impact on a child's feelings about school and his ability to be
academically successful. When a child continuously shows up late to class, other students are distracted.
Attention is drawn away from the teacher or assignment and toward the child who has just arrived. Over
time, classmates may begin to criticize this child, affecting how he feels about himself in school. During
adolescence, children are especially conscious of fitting in and being accepted by peers. If your child is
repeatedly tardy, he may become a target or outcast over time, and negative peer interactions can hurt
his ability to concentrate on learning. According to the Encyclopedia of Children's Health, children with
steady friendships throughout the school year enjoy school more, and children who can make new
friends tend to perform better academically.

Low Achievement

PerformWell, a nonprofit policy research and educational organization, reports that frequent tardiness is
associated with lower grades and lower scores on standardized tests. It is also linked to low graduation
rates. In addition, students who are routinely late at the elementary and middle school levels are more
likely to fail in high school -- or even drop out. In many classrooms, particularly at the elementary level,
morning routines are critical to daily lessons. Warm-up activities may introduce topics that will be
learned later in the day, or review work offers students an opportunity to review previously learned
skills.
Responsibility

Part of your child's education is learning to be responsible. The school experience teaches children how
to meet expectations. They learn to follow schedules, obey rules, complete assignments and keep track
of their materials. Learning responsibility in school is a precursor to functioning in the working world, as
noted by William Kirby in his 2010 Dayton Daily News article "School Attendance Tied to Academic
Success." Attendance is one of the ways children show they can meet their obligations. In many cases, a
child's attendance depends on his parents' ability to help him be on time. Parents can teach their kids
organizational techniques that will help them get out of the house faster, such as packing their bags and
laying out their clothes the night before school. But parents who drive their children must also
remember to be punctual and responsible. After all, you are the primary role model.
 Action Research on Tardiness

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
REGION XII
KIDAPAWAN CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION
KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Roxas St., Kidapawan City

 DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH ON TARDINESS OF STUDENTS IN GRADE

X PHOENIX SECTION

An Action Research presented to:

Faculty and Staff of 

Kidapawan City National High School

RIMMON A. PAREN, MBA

Researcher
SY 2015-2016

ABSTRACT
             Punctuality is one of the virtues beyond reproach. Much of the time and wealth
will be saved if this virtue will be carried out to the system of every responsible citizen.
Punctuality will encompass all of the positive action in all aspects. Though it was less
appreciated in other situations like productivity against punctuality, none the less, it is
still very vital in situations that needed it most. 

This study will determine the factors affecting students in their daily routine
during school days. Always and often times being tardy in the flag ceremony, in
attending classes after recess time in the morning and afternoon class sessions and
during the first period in the afternoon class session. There are observed instances that
during their transfer of room in their specialization subjects and other activities that
needs outdoor activities, they are behind schedule in attending to it.

There was an indication that student had significantly disliked the subjects of
Science and Mathematics and might be the reason for leniency in their study. The
aversion towards the matter is merely on the subject and has nothing to do with the
Subject Teacher. Moreover, there are students who fairly rated their teacher that might
affect their performance at school.
            
             

I.                   BACKGROUND/STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

            There is about 20% of the Grade X - Phoenix Class in Kidapawan City National
High School who is always late in attending the flag ceremony as well as in attending to
their subsequent classes.   
 This problem had accumulated from tolerable to habitual state and it has a
significant impact in their performance at school. Most of the class had been believed to
be influenced by their peers and will be embedded in their mind pattern until college and
ultimately to their vocation and their adventures in life. Other students had just the
difficulty in optimizing their time as their subject related activities grows in bulk.
Reported incidents on online games cyber addiction were prominent and this usually
happens after lunch break. To figure it out, students set aside their precedence to study
and learn thus the proponent of this research had to find out. Moreover, the
researcher’s intention is to isolate the primary reason of tardiness and proactive
intervention will be executed so as to curtail if it will not utterly do away with the
quandaries.

As the school inculcates discipline to have a world class graduates, globally

competitive and well rounded individuals, the researcher had in mind to unearth the
reason behind of this punctuality virtue which is annoyingly, losing its ground.

As the school inculcates discipline to have a world class graduates, globally

competitive and well rounded individuals, the researcher had in mind to unearth the
reason behind of this punctuality virtue which is annoyingly, losing its ground.
II.                 BREAKDOWN OF PROBABLE CAUSES
1.      Distance between residence and school
2.      Sending/Reading SMS/Calling/chatting with friends thru mobile phone
3.      Sleeping habit/ TV shows obsession
4.      Online/LAN games/Social Networking Sites(SNS) cyber compulsion
5.      Financial Constraints/Standard of Living
6.      Family Values on punctuality
7.      Mode of transportation
8.      Traffic load of the route to school
9.      Subject/class related cause
10.  Teacher related cause
11.  Peer Influence/Camaraderie
12.  Bullying/ stress factor
13.  Classroom supervision 

III.              SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The study will be conducted within the class of Fourth Year – Phoenix students. This
group of student belongs to Basic Education Curriculum Program of Kidapawan City
National High School and considered as outstanding students of the Fourth year level.
This group of student, total to 61 individuals, was also under the advisory of the
researcher and the survey questions will be delimited to obtaining primary and
secondary reasons of tardiness as well as assessing related factors underlying
therewith. 

Information acquired and provided by students will be used to confirm or negate the
feasible causes which were earlier stated. The result of the survey will then contribute
 insight in planning and drafting of the solutions in addressing the said problems being
identified that needs appropriate action. An Action plan will be the final output of the
said research to be implemented upon approval of the school administrator.

The researcher will use a sampling method with inquiries which is not answerable by
yes or no. The researcher arbitrarily selects this group of students for they well
represent a typical student which his/her primary aim is to learn and excel in school.
Moreover, the problem on tardiness was very observable in this group of students while
they are supposedly being a model to other students.

IV.              ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS RELATED TO SURVEY

The survey was done utilizing the survey questions (please see attached Survey
Sheet) and the result was tallied and will be scrutinized accordingly. The complexity of
the Survey Sheet was intentionally prepared to extract valid and trustworthy answers
from the subject population. The explicit outcome of the answers will be categorized in
factors that affect their punctuality values in attending to their classes or other learning
related activities.

This will be classified as Internal and External factors and further be classified
according to the details of each factor. The elucidation of the findings will be presented
in non-statistical and technical languages which will generally benefit the readers as
well as the subject of the study. Thus, the presentation will be done according to the
intention of the researcher to shed light on this tricky rationalization.

INTERNAL FACTOR

            The table below is representing the personal factor of every student which
comprehensively supports the reasons in being late with; attending to classes, flag
ceremony, and submitting paper works, etc. This information gives us the detail on how
they spend their residual time after classes or while class is going on. This clearly
shows that friends/peer influence plays vital role in student’s life; secondary is the
compulsion with TV shows and the pre-occupation of mobile phone to student’s
attention as well as the household chores that was understandably assigned to young
adolescents in their share of tasks at home.

TIME MANAGEMENT
                                                                             Figure 1.1

The table below (figure 1.2) supports the leniency of students in their study. Basically, a sound
mind needs adequate sleep to function well especially in learning lessons at school. Adequacy on
the number of hours of sleep per individual vary by its age category. A typical student in adolsecent
stage needs 8-10 hours of sleep to have a keener sense of understanding the lessons all through
out the day. A student who have a complete 10 hours of undisturbed and sounding sleep was
generally gaining outstanding results in academic excellence.

                The graph below represent the sleep habit of the subject which was generally falls at 9:00
pm and 10:00 pm. If a student would sleep at 10:00 pm and should wake up at 5:00 am, therefore,
the student had only 7 hours of sleep, this 1 to 3 hours depravation of sleep has significant effect on
the learning period of every student. This would affect the mood, span of attention and mental
aptitude.

                                                  Figure 1.2
 Figure below (Figure 1.3) represents a small fraction on student’ outlook with respect to their
study habit and school attendance. This was noted by the researcher for this small but dominant few
had made significant stimulus in students who are easily influenced because of varied reasons. As
the primary source of education, the parents should ultimately understand the right of every child for
education and underlying obligations related therein. Parents and or guardians who are being
complacent would greatly affect child’s performance at school. Valuing the education has more on
affirmative impact on the chart below with the students who are positively reinforced by parents.

  Figure 1.3
EXTERNAL FACTORS

            To give due consideration on other factors that affects the schedules of the
student, the researcher made a survey on the following:
      
         Figure 1.5

       Figure 1.6

Figure 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 represents the external factors that affect tardiness of the
students. Figure 1.4 states the distance of home to school and figure 1.5 will represent
the mode of transportation/ utility to reach school and the time allotted to travel to school
was shown at figure 1.6. In figure 1.4, it shows that 36% of the students were living at
the distance of more than 2 kilometers and most these students had tricycle as the
mode of transportation and they had to travel more or less 20 to 30 minutes to reach
school. With these figure representation, a student would likely be late for school since
the time allotted for travel is almost or half of the hour, they need to wake up early and
prepare. A typical student needs 1.5 hours to prepare and travel to school, they should
wake up as early as 5:00 am to have ample time for preparation and allocate time
threshold for travel if the student aspires punctuality.
 Figure below shows the information on the student’s attitude towards punctuality in
attending their subjects. The information is a negative reaction towards the subject thus
affecting attendance and punctuality. Ranking first is the Science subject and followed
by mathematics. The negative attitude towards this subject is mainly brought by dislike
of the subject itself.

            

     Figure 1.8

V.                SUMMARY OF DATA INTERPRETATION
The figure above confirms the hypothesis of having students at 20 % (+/-) who are
being late in attending the classes, flag ceremony and other learning related activities.
The figure further states the factors that significantly affect the student’s performance at
school. 

The researcher made an extra mile in identifying other factors which might affect the
attitude towards learning by including the information gathering which was shown at
figures 1.7 and 1.8. There was an indication that student had significantly disliked the
subjects of Science and Mathematics and might be the reason for leniency in their
study. The aversion towards the matter is merely on the subject and has nothing to do
with the Subject Teacher. Moreover, there are students who fairly rated their teacher
that might affect their performance at school.

There is a student who was bullied in the classroom, a parent who negatively
adjudged the education privileges of a child and a student who blatantly disliked the
teacher, the number of student in this study with strikingly averse situation from the
other student is less significant to negligible percentage.

Furthermore, internal factors are to be the focus in making appropriate actions by

the researcher. Giving weight in time management and valuing the virtue of punctuality.

VI.              ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION

 1.      The student should be guided in their time management if the reason is the distance,
financial constraints on the fare, traffic load of the route and mode of transportation.

2.      An arranged home visitation to personally confer with the parents or guardians about
the situation of the student if the primary reason was financial support for the fare
likewise read-through the family ideals in punctuality and the attitude towards Child
Education. Same feat will be done to students who are well buffered with extra cash
spent for cyber compulsion.

3.      Evaluate the student regarding its learning difficulty to the concerned subject and
confer to the subject teacher vis-à-vis the circumstances. Concrete action is to conduct
an initial Multiple Intelligence Assessment to every student before the class begins early
in June to determine the learning difficulties and or learning styles. Upon verifying the
learning styles, the teacher will look into the design of lesson planning to address the
situation.

4.      Look into the situation of the peer influence as well as bullying of classmates that might
be the reason of deplorable attitude towards learning.

5.      Faithfully device an operant conditioning to give rewards to those who are early comers
and reinforce consistency all through-out the school year.

6.      Organize a peer counselor among students. Selected students with venerable outlook
in student’s life, behave well in campus, renowned for leadership capability and have a
strong interpersonal skill. They will be assigned per “problem-subject” group or
individual.

VII.           ACTION 

Data to be Data
Strategy
Collected Analysis/Interpretation
1.    Multiple Intelligence Inner strength, Percentage
Assessment in learning
June(every school year) difficulties and
weaknesses
2.  Time Management Weekly/Daily Percentage
lecture/workshop with planner of every
the students in June student
(every school year)
3. After the MI Background Percentage
Assessment, cull the check and
prospect confirmation of
students (Strong the interpersonal
Interpersonal Skills) to skills
be peer counselors and
orient them in their
assigned task.
 4. Reward Psychology Early Bird Frequency
Attendance
Report
5. Student Journal and Family values and Percentage
Process folio financial
capability

  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
REGION XII
KIDAPAWAN CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION
KIDAPAWAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Roxas St., Kidapawan City

QUESTIONNAIRE
(STUDENT)

Name of Respondent:_________________________________ Year and Section:

____________

Directions: Please check/tick the box that suits your choice of answer provided for each
question. Please accomplish honestly all of the questions and the information will be
treated highly confidential. There are no wrong answers.

1.      Is Kidapawan City National High School is the only school nearest from your home?

2.      How far is your home from school?

 Less than 500 meters
More than 500 meters but less that 1 kilometer
More than 1 kilometer
More than 2 kilometers

3.      What is your mode of transportation?

Bus/Van/Jeepney/Multicab
Tricycle
Motorcycle (owned)
Extended Motorcycle (for hire/rented)
Sent and fetched by family vehicle
Leg Power (walking/hiking)

4.      How long does it takes for you to travel from home to school?

Approximately 10 minutes
Approximately 20 minutes
Approximately 30 minutes
Approximately 45 minutes
Approximately 1 hour
More than 1 hour
5.      How long does it take for you to transfer from one room to another in your next subject
period?

Approximately 3 minutes
Approximately 5 minutes
Almost 10 minutes
More than 15 minutes

6.      The subject that I don’t like most was/were; (you can tick more than 1)

English
Pilipino
Mathematics (Physics, Calculus, Advanced Algebra, etc.)
Science
Araling Panlipunan
MAPEH
None of the above

7.      I don’t like the subject because ;

I don’t like the teacher

I don’t like my classmate/s
Somebody is bullying me from that class
I did not like the subject itself
8.      Time Management for me is;

for the old and mature person

tiresome, boring and redundant daily chore
is a virtue to be valued and kept by students
respecting the time of others
helping me to accomplish many tasks

9.      My parents value my education as;

their only treasure for me to inherit

learning things I needed on my own as they did in the past
an alibi of not helping home chores
just sending me to school like my neighbors do
expensive and sever the daily budget for food and other primary needs

10.  I spend most of my time in;

watching my favorite TV show/s

playing online/LAN game/s
working to earn money to subsidize my education
hanging around with my friends
sending/reading SMS/ talking/chatting with my friends
doing household chores

11.  The reason why I am late in attending my classes;

working with other requirements

distance of the specialization lecture area from my class room
receiving calls/reading /answering text messages
had to finish my snacks/lunch
attending my extra-curricular activities

12.  After almost ten months with the subject I am learning;

I learned a lot of things about it

I am picking informative things about the subject
a thing or two…
nothing and I am not interested at all
to do complacent measures just to pass this subject

13.  I go to bed at;

7:45 pm
 8:30 pm
9:00 pm
                          10:00 pm
after midnight

14.  My subject teacher is;

skillful, efficient and effective in teaching the lesson

is good in his/her field of expertise
giving us load of homework/tasks which is beyond our capability
a symbol of authority and tenacious
funny
lackluster and needs inspiration