Chapter IV
Methodology
Research Design
The researchers will implement the simple descriptive design which will examine the effects of romantic relationships on students’ academic performance. This design will use survey questionnaires which will be distributed to the respondents in order to attain the main objectives of the study. The survey or the research itself will try to describe, analyze and interpret the status of the respondents.
The design is a non-experimental correlation research. The two main variables to be evaluated are general weighted average and romantic relationship.
Respondents and Locale of the Study
The research will be conducted at the University of the Philippines Cebu College during the first semester, academic year 2011-2012 at Lahug, Cebu City.
There will be 10 respondents who will take part in the study. The population will consist of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 2 students from University of the Philippines who will participate in strictly voluntary basis.
Sampling Procedure
The researchers will make use of the selective sampling method in the selection of the respondents since the study is focused on a particular group (students involved in romantic relationship). Second year BSCS students who were involved in a relationship in the A.Y. 2010-2011 will become the respondents of the study. Since there are only 10 students who met this criteria, these 10 students will be the respondents of the study.
Data Collection
The gathering of data for this study utilized a self-administered descriptive questionnaire because it economizes our time and effort and it has the ability to maintain respondent’s confidentiality.
The respondents will be given survey questionnaires to provide the necessary data needed in the study. After gathering the data, the researchers will group the responses according to the sub-problems of the study. An interview to one of the respondents will also be conducted to give explanation or support to their responses.
Instrumentation
In order to answer specific sub-problems in our study, survey questionnaires will be distributed to the respondents. Interview to one of our respondents will also be conducted to confirm the results of the survey.
The survey questionnaires will consist of a broad range of questions aimed at gauging the students’ involvement in romantic relationship and its adverse effects on their academic achievement. Each questionnaire will have 3 parts. The first part of the questionnaire will regard the profile of the respondent (i.e., name, gender, gwa). The second part will comprise the status of time management of the respondent. The third and fourth part will consider the levels of motivation and anxiety of the respondent as a student. These two last parts are in Likert scale form in which respondents will be tasked to indicate whether they strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree or strongly disagree in the given statements.
Statistical Treatment of Data
Data that will be collected will be converted to percentage and will be presented in tabular and graphical forms for simple interpretation.
1. To determine the profile of the respondents in terms of gender and grade point average, percentage will be used:
Formula:
Where:
P= Percentage
F= Frequency
N= No. of respondents
2. To determine the status of time management, level of anxiety and level of motivation, the weighted mean will be used,
Formula:
Where:
∑f(x) = Total scores of students
N = No. of respondents
3 To find the significant relationship between the time management/levels of motivation/ levels of anxiety and grade point average (academic performance), the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation (r) will be used
Formula:
Where:
r = the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation
n = sample size
∑x = summation of x
∑y = summation of y
∑x2 = sum of squares of x
∑y2 = sum of squares of y
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