PANGASINAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Lingayen, Pangasinan 1

Effectiveness of Social Media Learning in Transition to in Person

Learning

Population and Sample

This study will be conducted at Pangasinan National High School wherein the
selected population is the Grade 12 students in STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics). Overall, there are two hundred and forty-four (244)
students. The researchers have determined that their sample size or the participants
that will be given the survey questionnaires is one hundred and fifty-three (153).

The researchers will make use of simple random sampling in determining the
respondents. According to an article written by CFI Education Inc. (2022), simple
random sampling is a data collection method that allows unbiased data collection,
which lets studies arrive at unbiased conclusions. The researchers will randomly
select a small portion from a whole population which allows each individual of a
population an equal and fair probability of being chosen (CFI Education Inc., 2022).

In determining the sample size, the researchers made use of Slovin's Formula.
Slovin's formula is a research tool that helps the researchers determine how large
the sample size needs to be to provide valid accuracy of results statistically. This
formula is also often used when there is little to no information to identify the
appropriate sample size. The researchers chose 95% as their confidence level and
0.05 as the margin of error.

Among the one hundred and fifty-three (153) samples; thirty-one (31) will
come from STEM 1, twenty-nine (29) from STEM 2, thirty-one (31) from STEM 3,
thirty-one (31) from STEM 4 and thirty-one (31) will be coming from STEM 5. The
researchers will make use of a random sampling technique, the fish bowl method, to
identify who will be selected among the population will be selected as their sample.
The researchers will number each student as a representation on separate slips of
paper and would put them into a container to be shuffled. After that and each slip is
randomly picked out one-by-one until the number of the said sample size (153) is
filled.