Name: Rona Gellica P.

Serenio

Subject: GS 306 - SS 605 – Colloquium in Social Studies Education Research

Research Problem
This research aims to ensure effectiveness of the Modular Learning setting and evaluate the level of student
engagement whether there is actually a transfer of learning despite of this modular (print) distance learning in Manatad
National High School, Sibonga District.
Research Topic

Towards the end of 2019, last year, the world never expected to face a kind of problem which somehow ended
everyone’s way of living. There was a sudden hit of not just simply a disease nor epidemic, but a pandemic brought by a
virus which was formerly named as 2019 Novel Corona Virus (NCOV) but eventually named as Corona Virus Disease 2019
(COVID-19). With this, a lot of people’s lives, whether of private individuals’ or public civilians’, ended in just a blink of an
eye. Although recently we were already recovering, we cannot deny the fact that the world stops and our normal
lifestyle before changes. However, life must move on as most of us say, and so as the educational system.

This school year of 2020-2021 creates conflict between those who believe in continuity of education despite of
the current situation and of those who believe that for the meantime, it is better to have an academic freeze. The
former outweighs through the Department of Educations’ Order No. 018, s. 2020, authored by the secretary of
education Leonor Magtolis Briones. It issues the enclosed “Policy Guidelines for the Provision of Learning Resources in
the Implementation of the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP)”. It also establishes the guidelines on the
release, utilization, and liquidation of support funds for the printing and delivery of self-learning modules and other
learning resources. Because of it, the entire public institutions under the Department of Education here in the
Philippines are utilizing the Modular Learning. The focus of this paper is on ensuring effectiveness of the Modular
Learning setting here in Manatad National High School, Sibonga District. More specifically, this research aims to evaluate
the level of student engagement whether there is actually a transfer of learning despite of this distance learning that we
have. Moreover, the objective of this paper is to identify the practices and challenges in teaching and learning process in
this kind of learning modality.

Research Questions:
1) How do you feel overall about distance education?
2) How much time do you spend each day on an average on distance education?
3) How effective has remote learning been for you?
4) How helpful your school has been in offering you the resources to learn from home?
5) How stressful is distance learning for you during the COVID-19 pandemic?
6) How well could you manage time while learning remotely?
7) How helpful are your teachers while studying in this Modular-Printed Distance learning?

How to Answer this Questions:

1) Descriptive Method of Research
2) Input-Process Output Technique
3) Interviews
4) Distribution of Questionnaires
5) Random Sampling