Use of B ended Learning Modality for HUMSS Senior high school students in Bartolome Sangalang National High School
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2023
Authors
Patricia C. Gabriel
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The COVID-19 pandemic made a massive impact on education worldwide. Students were mandated to enroll in distance learning because face-to-face learning was not allowed. With that, it discovers students’ flexibility in coping with the prison-like situation and the willingness to learn to drop and rise. As the new lifestyle arises, a “new-normal educational policy” should be taken care of also. The country's administration suggested implementing a blended learning as a modality during the academic year 2021-2022. The conductivity of face-to-face classes, partial or full-scale, was prohibited. Bartolome Sangalang National High School operated amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The school offers three modalities such as digital modality; modular modality and the combination of the digital and modular which is the blended learning modality. The blended learning modality was a combination of digital and modular modalities. One problem in education nowadays was, does the blended learning is appropriate to every age learners? It is a dilemma that does the efficacy of blended learning affects the academic performance of the students. What the researcher was trying to find out was, does the use of blended learning modality has a relationship with the accumulated academic performance of the students? Using this study, the school administration or the Department of Education can tell if the blended learning as a modality contributed in improving the students performance or on receiving a failing grade. The results of this study can determine whether blended learning was appropriate to every age of a learner as a modality.
This study aims to answer the following questions: What was the socio-economic status of the students in terms of the presence of the parents’/guardians’ job? What are the gadgets used and internet connection used by the HUMSS students in the Blended Learning Modality (BLM) in BSNHS? How motivating are the BLM teaching-learning materials and the online platforms as described by the HUMMS students? How was the HUMSS students be described based on their engagement with their teaching-learning activities? How was the HUMSS students be described considering the problems they met? What was the academic performance of the HUMSS students based on their first semester final numerical grade? Were the socioeconomic status, communication attributes, blended learning modalities, and perceived acceptance and problems encountered related to academic performance of the HUMSS students?
Blended learning Modality was defined as the platform and teaching materials used in blended learning. After the independent variables and dependent variables was tested, only the core subject Research in Daily Life and the Gadgets Used and Ownership that met by the students as a problem has a significant relationship to the academic performance of the students. As per students they seen their core subject research in Daily Life as less engaging and motivating in comparison to other core subjects. Also, the gadget that they used whether they owned it or borrowed affects their academic performance.
The results of this study pointed out that only the Research in Daily Life among all core subjects of the HUMSS students during the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022 has the lowest engagement. The socioeconomic profile of the students affected their engagement in the said subject, which resulted in their academic performance being significantly related. Aside from the problems encountered by the students, the variable Gadget Used and Ownership showed a significant effect on the students' academic performance. Nevertheless, the Humanities and Social Sciences students of the Bartolome Sangalang National High School attended online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022, practicing blended learning modality following their socioeconomic status. Hence, even though some students don't own or they owned their smartphones, laptop, tablet, or personal computers they still manage to attend classes and successfully consummate.