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PP Thesis1
PP Thesis1
In this modern period, as the technology has become a way of life, advancements in
everything were introduced. One of the most influenced aspects of this advancement is the
education, where in technology specifically, digital tools were used to improve the quality
of education.
Digital tools means software and platforms for teaching and learning that can be used
with computers or devices to work on texts, images, audios, and videos. Hundreds of
digital educational tools have been created with the purpose of giving autonomy to the
students, improving administration of academic processes, encouraging collaboration, and
facilitating communication between teachers and learners.
BACKGROUND
Digital Tools was viewed as a key solution on improving
students’ academic performance. (Jonathan Martin)
It is stated that with the help of digital tools:
1) student engagement happens to improve
2) students will gain self-efficacy
3) ownership of learning will be achieved
According to Philippine Statistic Authority, Philippines
has a high dropout rate of 3 out of 10 students every year
which is equivalent to 3.3 million aged 16-24 years old who
are supposed to be in Senior High School and College.
According to the past researchers’ study on academic
performance and motivation, students of GFIS lacks on what
it takes to have an ownership of learning due to the poor
engagement and efficacy of students.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This study will find out the effectiveness of digital tools to the academic performance of students.
1) What are the demographic profile of the following respondents in terms of:
◦ Age
◦ Gender
◦ Strand
◦ Self-Efficacy
◦ Student Engagement
◦ Ownership of Learning
3) Is there any significance difference in the effectiveness of using digital tools to the students’ academic performance of Senior
High School?
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDIES
The study focused on explaining the effectiveness of using digital tools in the
learning system. Moreover, the results of the study will be beneficial to the following:
Students – The students will have an awareness on the opportunities they will get
in this study, especially this study will provide a solution for the betterment of their
learning quality.
Teachers/Faculty – The result of this study will provide an idea for the teachers on
how they will enhance their teaching quality in a more effective way.
School Administration – The same with the teacher, the result of this study will also
provide an idea for them to improve the quality of learning their school might get.
Parents – The result of the study will help the parents of the students to feel an ease
and worthiness on the sacrifices they made to give an education to their children as
this study will provide an idea for the betterment of the students’ learning quality
Future Researchers – This research will help the future researchers conducting a
study related to this research because they can use this in their background study
This study focuses about the effectiveness of digital tool towards the academic performance
of senior high school students of Green Fields Integrated School of Laguna, Inc. The experiment
will take hold in Green Fields Integrated School of Laguna, Inc. Senior High School Department
and expected to have an estimated number of 179 participants and it is focused on the students
of Grade 11 and Grade 12 for the population. Others that are not students of Grade 11 and
Grade 12 of Green Fields Integrated School of Laguna, Inc. is not part of the scope. The study
will create data through questionnaires and interviews with the participants. Using this,
researchers will be able to monitor and acquire raw results of the study.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Digital tools – this is software and platforms for teaching and learning that
use on teaching aids, learning activities, assessments, data storing, etc. This
self-directed. It means they can monitor their own progress and are able to
reflect on the knowledge they have learn. This is the product of having a
reading about how a task must done rather by doing something yourself, it
The questionnaires were constructed by the researchers and validated by their teacher in
Research 1 who made face validation and ascertained the stability of the instrument. The
questions 1 to 7 of part A and part B questionnaires came from the study of Chuchan
and Teaching Effectives”. The questionnaire number 8 of part A came from “The Impacts
Boiarchuk. The questionnaire number 9 of part A came from James Francis’ study “The
Learning” while the question number 10 in part A was gathered in the surveymonkey.com.
Data Gathering Procedures
These are the steps or process in order to gather data needed in the research.
1. A researcher writes a letter to ask permission and approval to Grade 11 and Grade 12 students of
2. A researcher explains the survey questionnaire to the Grade 11 and 12 students of Green Fields
3. A researcher gives the survey questionnaire to the Grade 11 and 12 students of Green Fields
4. A researcher collects the survey questionnaire after the respondents answer it.
5. A researcher interprets the collected data from Grade 11 students of Green Fields Integrated School
of Laguna.
6. A researcher interprets the gathered data from the respondents into
percentage form.
10. A researcher summarizes the gathered data from Grade 11 and 12 students
of Green Fields Integrated School of Laguna.
Statistical Treatment of Data
1. Percentage. In order for the researchers to gathered data in their research, they will be
using the percentage formula in order to get the ranking of the answers of the respondents.
Formula
% = F/n*100
Where:
% = percentage
F = frequency