Chapter I

PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS

Background of the study

Self-confidence refers to as someone's power and abilities to perform a task. It involves
someone’s feelings, thoughts and courage in improving themselves in performing tasks and activities
that the teachers required to perform. It is also their belief on hoe to perform their tasks
successfully without any hesitation. While performance tasks are different activities that teachers might
required the students to perform and complete. However, performance tasks don not only refer to
activities that needs to perform but also assignments, project and quizzes .Self-confidence is a problem
that baffles many students. They were having a hard time to cope with that particular problem. Studying
self-confidence and performance tasks may aid students an understanding on how important to know the
level of self confidence in performing tasks. In performing different activities it does not only require
intelligence and creativity. Conducting this study is important, most especially to every student, to
know the level of self-confidence and performance tasks.

Performance task can be classified as the different activities that require to performed and
demonstrate. It needs knowledge, skills and creativity in order to accomplish the given tasks.
However, performance tasks also refers to Academic requirements that need to submit like quizzes,
assignments, project and other things that need to pass on time.

In the study the researcher will learn the correlation between the self-confidence and performance
tasks. The result of the study will be the bases if there is a correlation between the two. Additionally, the
result of the study is beneficial to the researcher and others, it provides them an understanding and
knowledge about the two variables. The study intends to know the level of self-confidence and
performance tasks among the Senior High School Students in Masbate National Comprehensive High
School.

Scope and delimitation

This study focused on level of confidence in Grade 12 students in Masbate National Comprehensive High
School in performing tasks in November to December 2022.
This study, students may know the correlation between students level of self-confidence and
performance tasks, the chosen field for this study is the academic performance with more difficulties to
perform the task because of having a low confidence of the students.The respondents of this study is only
GAS students in grade 12 .This strands are not part of this study. ABM (Accountancy Business and
Management), HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences), STEM (Science Technology Engineering
and Mathematics), TVL (Technical Vocational and Livelihood).

Statement  of  the  problem

        This  study  intends  to  assess  the  students  level  of  self-confidence  and performance  tasks  in
Masbate  National  Comprehensive  High  School.
Specifically  it  attempts  to  address  the  following  questions.

1. How  often  do  you  perform  in  performance  task ?

2. How  would  you  rate  yourself  in  doing  performance  task ?

3 .What is the leve of self-confidence of the respondents during performance tasks?

4.How  would  the  respondents  rate  the  suggestions  on  how  to  better improve  confidence  in
performing  tasks ?

Scope  and  delimitation  

       This study is focused on the level of confidence in Grade 12 students of Masbate National
Comprehensive High School in performing tasks on November to December 2022 . In This study ,
students may know the level of self-confidence in performing tasks ,the  chosen  field  for  this  study
is  the academic  performance  with  more  difficulties  to  perform  the  task  because  of having  low
confidence  of  the  students.
       The respondents of this study were Grade 12 GAS students. This strands are not part of this study
ABM (Accountancy Business and Management) HUMMS (Humanities and Social Science) Stem
( Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) and TVL (Technical Vocational Livelihood). We
didn’t include the other strands because our target are only GRADE 12 GAS students.

Significance  of  the  study

       The findings of this study they will know the level of self confidence in performing tasks, and it can
give students confidence to do schoolwork and performance task in order to pass or get higher grades.
Benefitting of this study are the sectors that follow:
The  Students
     The  result  of  this  study  is  the  students  may  improve  their  confidence  of getting  higher  grades.
The  Parents
     The  result  of  this  study  parents  will  be  proud  to  their  children  of  having good  and  high
grades.
The  Teachers
     The  result  of  this  study  is  that  teachers  will  be  happy  and  proud  of  their students  because  of
having  a  high  confidence  in  doing  a  task.
Future  researchers
     The  findings  of  this  study  will  guide  them  in  terms  of  this  topic.