University of the Philippines-Open University

Associate of Arts

RESEARCH PROPOSAL
September 2023

Prepared by:
Joshua Angelo B. Bornilla

Submitted to:
Anna Liza Barcelona

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE ENGLISH STUDENTS IN

UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES-OU AMID PANDEMIC
Introduction
The global education gap widened as a result of the latest Covid pandemic flare-up. In any case,
the Coronavirus pandemic is novel, it at this point hurtfully influences humanity. The outbreak of
the coronavirus has caused educational disruptions and global health issues that have proven
extremely challenging for global health systems to manage. The Coronavirus pandemic is
currently affecting every nation and race in the world, and the rapid spread and overwhelming
effects of the virus appear to have overwhelmed the entire world. The Coronavirus pandemic has
no restrictions, and the effect is tremendous and fast. Within a matter of a few short months of
the illness's resurgence, billions of people around the world have been forced to "remain at
home," "notice self-segregations," and work and earn money from home. It has limited the
chance of people to move, trade or accomplice.
According to the most recent update, there are currently 451, 839 confirmed cases in the
Philippines. This affects 54% men, with the 20-29-year-old age group (26%) being most
affected, followed by the 30-39-year-old age group (23.8%). Sixty percent of the 8, 812 affirmed
graduates are men, with the most affected age group reaching the age of 70 (34.8%), followed by
those aged 60-69 (27%). With this the Part of Prosperity (DOH) and WHO continually focused
on the prerequisite for consistency to, and real execution of, public standards at LGU level.

The pandemic's effects have grown dramatically over several months, causing concern
throughout our administration. introducing a rapid improvement to what has been the norm for
every person and removing them from a life of fear and vulnerability. One of the areas that face
this mind boggling annihilation is the area of preparing. In particular, both public and private
higher education institutions (HEIs) have adapted to the new policy prohibiting in-person
collaboration and large-scale social gatherings. From the constraints of their homes, instructors
and directors are put to the task of reexamining and changing course plans and requirements as
they move to choice or remote appearance modalities, both composed and nonconcurrent. Where
students and teachers approach electronic devices and solid web connections, including
instructional platforms like Moodle, Material, and Skype, Zoom, and Google Home bases.
Oppositely, with the students who have limited induction to the web, they use mobile phones to
exchange messages with the teachers, or notes and materials, email, Courier, and even Twitter.

Objectives
This proposed research tries to investigate the scholarly presentation of English understudies of
UP Open University in the midst of the current year's pandemic. In order to accomplish this, the
researchers will conduct a comprehensive study of the aforementioned students and propose
solutions to the difficulties and pressures they face while studying and adapting to the new
learning methods.

Research Questions
 The Research aims to determine the most important aspect of implementing new
learning styles in today's rapidly changing education.

1. What is the connection between academic performance and the input dimension, which
includes learning styles of Visual or Virtual?
2. What is the relationship between academic performance and the understanding
dimension, also known as learning style?
3. What are the learning barriers that affect academic learning style?

Significance of the Study

The aftereffect of the review will benefit the following:

School Admin-In the event of a pandemic, this research will be of assistance to the school
administrator in soliciting and evaluating educational programs that can meet the emerging
educational requirements.
CHED- The aftereffect of this study will assist them with evaluating the current instructive
projects that will meet the current and advancing requirements of the understudies in light of the
current circumstance.
Facilitators-It will be clear from this study that not all students are adapting to the new
educational system changes. In this manner, giving them a more escalated technique that will pay
all due respects to the issues of the present learning framework.
Students-This study will assist the understudies with figuring out their circumstance within
reach. During the pandemic, the goal of this study is to help them become innovative and
creative students. Hence, permitting them to work actually and productively alongside the
restricted instructive sources and limited climate.
Future researcher- The consequence of this study can be an expected reason for additional
concentration on the various issues in the education system in the midst of pandemic. This could
serve as a guide for future research into how this pandemic affects students' academic
performance.

Definition of Terms

The key terms used in this study have been defined for clarity's sake.
Academic Performance- refers to the end result of education—the degree to which a student,
teacher, or educational establishment has accomplished their educational objectives (Annie,
Howard, and Mildred). 1996). It alludes to the understudy's conduct in achieving instructive
dependability.
Asynchronous-Alludes to a descriptor portraying items or occasions that are not facilitated in
time (Stir, M. 2019). It refers to events that do occur simultaneously but do not interact.
Covid Pandemic. refers to the greatest challenge the world had ever faced and the most
significant global health crisis of our time (UNDP, 2020). It alludes to the wellbeing emergency
looked by the general public that enormously influences assortment of areas particularly the
school system.
Synchronous-refers to an adjective that describes time-coordinated objects or events (Rouse, M.
2019). It refers to events that work together within the same framework, such as conferences and
online events.

Review of Related Literature

This study perceives that objective understudy results are connected with new literacy and
pandemic. The review of recent studies that demonstrate this association in this section supports
the thesis that underpins the exploration questions. However, it could " If it continues. hang the
right to education," UNESCO director-general Andrey Azoulayals advised in 2020. " The global
scale and speed of the dislocation of education caused by the coronavirus is unknown." The
report gives a quotation from Azoulayals. scholars, preceptors, parents, and the general public
may face serious issues as a result of the unforeseen check of seminaries. This can hurt the
scholarly interest and prosecution of council understudies. If introductory studies aren't tutored
in a useful way, they can be unresistant, which can affect in bad geste
, a lack of interest, and poor academic performance among youthful people. The US
CDC was also concerned about the issues of the academy closures. The CDC states that"
longer conclusions can affect in a lesser number of scholars being expelled." According to
Quentin( 2014), academy closures are largely dubious and can affect a lot of scholars who
attend academy. This can impact the possibility of rejection from academy. instructing and
learning and instructional accomplishment, particularly for understudies with exceptional
musts or learning challenges who some of the time bear all the more true logic and direction
from preceptors, still while invention can lessen a portion of the adverse consequences of
academy terminations, it can not displant eye to eye. - face- to- face communication between
preceptors and scholars. also, numerous scholars warrant access to aids during academy
closures, making the use of educational technology more grueling . The deliberate sweats to
dislocate a academy or control violations in a specific terrain or atmosphere are appertained to
as" academy closures," as is the check of seminaries due to a epidemic, exigency, strike, or
other analogous event. This shows that academy terminations aren't just a purposeful procedure
to address the singular scarcities of a specific academy, yet in addition with respects to
extremities or afflictions. seminaries are numerous times shut by the Nigerian government or
academy experts for the sake of security like cultism, cerebral oppression or rough fights hard."
During the Obama association, the Obama association advanced the conclusions as a point of
methodologies to pivot 5,000 bombing seminaries in the US," Ben, Mathew, and Kristen( 2010)
refered to Gewertz( 2009). Anyhow of the way that seminaries can be shut for authentic reasons
at times, the new Coronavirus academy terminations are hampering multitudinous academy
systems each over the earth. further than1.3 billion scholars missed academy in 2020 due to
coronavirus- related closures, according to Wikipedia 2020b. Erika and Nicholas( 2020) state
that academy closures may be visionary or reactive. Erika and Nikolao progressed with that
seminaries respond when understudies, preceptors or guardians inform them regarding an case
of Coronavirus. considering that seminaries are shut down in advance of the complaint
spreading. According to Madeline( 2020), the check of seminaries as a result of COVID
brought up brand-new issues, similar as how to accommodate individualities who calculate on
seminaries for food and sanctum and how to promote online and home education. scholars,
preceptors, and parents are feeling the pinch as a result of the coronavirus's check of
seminaries, particularly those with limited computer chops, education, and coffers for farther
education. Parents must not only work hard to support their families but also shoot their
children to academy. Press conventions are generally closed by seminaries in order to address
as numerous health issues as possible that are generally addressed by academy health centers.
The coronavirus has the implicit to alter class, increase pupil debt, and raise scale rates.
Because of apathy and fortune, late academy participation can proliferation powerhouse rates.
In the event that academy conclusions go inadequately, wrongdoing could proliferation. This
is due to the fact that prolonged academy closures have the implicit to beget youth to come
inactive, which in turn encourages felonious exertion and negative peer influence. Education-
related employment is also affected; numerous experts run the threat of losing their jobs or, in
any case, their compensation in the face of robotic rejection. As per Andreas Scheicher, the
Covid epidemic is impacting farther instruction. Because of advancement measures, sodalities
and nations have shut their lines. Indeed though online literacy snappily replaced in- person
lectures at sodalities, these closures had an impact on literacy, examinations, and the safety and
legal status of transnational scholars in their home countries. The extremity, maybe most
significantly, raises enterprises regarding the value of a university education, which provides
openings for networking and communication in addition to educational content. Advanced
education associations ought to reevaluate their literacy surroundings to incorporate
digitization with associations with understudies, pool and different cohorts to remain side by
side. scholars and the frugality as a total will really profit from academy and university
reopenings. Families will also gain financially when seminaries renew because some parents
will be suitable to return to work. still, these advantages must be precisely balanced against the
need to lessen the epidemic's costs and health pitfalls. These negotiations bear effective
collaboration between experts in education and public health at colorful situations of
government, bolstered by original investment and autonomy, as well as applicable responses to
the terrain in the original area. pitfalls and trade- offs can be managed by investing in hand
training on the stylish ways to deal with the contagion, establishing hygiene protocols, revising
HR and attendance programs, and physically separating workers. In the midst of this exigency,
lessoning systems precipitously look for worldwide exertion. Education at a regard, a
publication of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development( OECD), provides
support for these trials by developing and assaying quantitative, internationally similar
pointers that are particularly pivotal for comprehending the environment of the sanitation
extremity. Indeed though the pointers in Education Looks were collected previous to the
extremity, this book places them in the environment of the epidemic. It gives an figure of its
fiscal impacts on training and conforming the overall government backing and keeping up
with the instructional construction. The entrance responses in this folder incorporate huge
assessments that will be reckoned for or presented toward the finish of June 2020. As per
Abramo,D'Angelo, and Costa( 2009), one of the points zeroed in on logical prosecution decides
the rudiments that impact logical prosecution and decides its effect on establishments and
people. The academic and logical performance of scholars is told by three groups of variables,
according to exploration particular characteristics( for case, faculty size, specialized and
tackle/ IT structure, and institutional characteristics) as well as environmental characteristics(
for case, business programs, finances, and so on) Costa, D).' Abramo and Angelo, 2009). also,
Rushton and Meltzer( 1981), who accept that scholarly effectiveness ismulti-layered, separated
it into the accompanying three groups individual traits( natural capacities like understanding,
age, and exposure, as well as individual and environmental factors like the natural world).
pacing with training. likewise, colorful leveled culture) and institutional and departmental
factors( authority design and drive, program degree, nonpublic area work, financial limit of the
academy, creative likely results of the academy, and so on.). working conditions and the culture
of the department( labor policy, passage finances, institutional finances,etc.)

Methodology
The study looked at English students' academic performance during the pandemic at UP Open
University. According to previous research, the global spread of this pandemic had a negative
impact on education. Hence, the fundamental target of this study was to survey the presentation
of English students , and how this exhibition could go towards greatness and additionally the
opposite of it. There is no denying that these effects have an effect on any educational system at
an educational establishment. The research study will use online survey questionnaire as the
research instrument to gather data, wherein a set of questions will be given to the participants.
The participants' answers will contribute to the research study to determine the academic
performance of the English students amid pandemic.

Limitation of the Study

The study will be carried out at UP Open University at Los Baños, Laguna. The participants are
English students For Associate of Arts students for the school year 2023-2024.
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