JMJ CONGREGATION OF DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA NOTRE DAME – SIENA COLLEGE OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY NLSA Road Extension, PurokMasagana San Isidro, General Santos City Telefax (083) 552 3803 THE STRESSFUL EFFECT OF THE NEW NORMAL EDUCATION SYSTEM TO THE GRADE 12-HUMSS STUDENTS OF NOTRE DAME-SIENA COLLEGE OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY ______________________________________________________ Qualitative Research Proposal Presented to The Faculty, Senior High School Department Notre Dame Siena College General Santos City _____________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Practical research 1 ______________________ By De Asis, Corliss Pelongo, Lovely Yumang, Paula Gumban, Jane Sasam, Elaiza Son, Raphael Nono, Cyril NOVEMBER 2020 JMJ CONGREGATION OF DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA NOTRE DAME – SIENA COLLEGE OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY NLSA Road Extension, PurokMasagana San Isidro, General Santos City Telefax (083) 552 3803 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM INTRODUCTION According to Chandra (2020), there is a big impact on students, educators and institutions due to spreading of disease, COVID 19. Through this pandemic, there is a sudden change especially on the educational institutions: shift from physical classroom to online classes. This kind of new mode of learning would lead in academic stress experience by students during coping strategies using emotional intelligence adopted by them. In today’s generation, students are living in a modern and competitive era in which the students aim for a high standard in all aspects in human life. Stress can be negative or positive to an individual, depending on the strength and persistence of the stress, the individual’s personality, cognitive appraisal of stress and social support. (Rana, et.al 2019). According to Hetrick and Parker(2019), students from junior and senior high school are usually have many stressors in academic fields. Especially now in this New Normal Education related-stress may reduce the academic achievement of the students, can decrease motivation to the students and high possibility in school dropout. Having academic stress has a great impact in student’s learning capacity and academic performance, mental health problems like depression and anxiety and sleep disturbance which is not good to the students. Statement of the problem The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore and understand the impact of stress in the new normal education system to the 12-HUMSS students of Notre Dame Siena College of GSC. Generally the students aims to determine: 1) Why does the students get stress? a. Time Management b. ISP (Internet Service Provider) c. Quality of Education 2) Identify on what are the stressful effects for the students on having a new mode of learning in amidst of pandemic. 3) What are the actions of the students of Grade12-HUMSS to manage this kind of pressure? Scope and Delimitation The Scope of our study is to determined the effect of the New Normal Education System to Grade 12- HUMSS of Notre Dame- Siena College of General Santos City. This study will determine using the convenience sampling method it is a type of nonprobability sampling that involves the sample being drawn from that part of the population that is close to hand. This type of sampling is most useful for pilot testing. This study will be conducted on November 2020 Significance of the Study The study will be beneficial to the following: To the students of Notre Dame-Siena College of General Santos City. The results will help the students on how to adjust in the New Normal Education. The results of the study will help the them on how to make adjustments in the new normal scheme and gather ideas that can be applied for better learning and the students would finally know on how to manage stress in this New Normal Education System. To the teachers, this result would guide the teachers on what to do with the students who are not capable to access technology, module, and the internet. The results of the study will guide the teachers to advance in teaching procedures upon understanding the struggles of the students. The teachers would have the idea on how can they help, their students during this New Normal Education System To the Guidance Counselors. This result will help them to handle students that is in the midst of struggle especially the Grade 12- HUMSS student of Notre Dame Siena College of General Santos City in terms of New Normal Education. This will also help them to make a solution on how to handle stressful education in this New Normal Education System To the researchers. The result will help them to fully understand their topic about the Stressful Effect of the New Normal Education System to the Student of Grade 12-HUMSS of Notre Dame-Siena College of General Santos City. This study will also help them to develop their skills in research and to expand their knowledge that can be used in their future studies. To the future researchers. The result of this study will serve as their reference as a source of information on the Stressful Effect of the New Normal Education System. Conceptual Framework Figure 1: Topic: The Stressful Effect of the New Normal Education System to the Grade 12- HUMSS of Notre DameSiena College of General Santos City. SOP (1): SOP (2): To determine the reasons why the students of Grade 12- HUMSS experiencing stress. The Stressful Effect of the New Normal Education System to the students Grade 12- HUMSS. Goal: To let the teacher on how they are going to minimize the stressors of the students in terms of New Normal Education System. In addition, teachers identify specific students who experience stress and take action to address these problems and help the student to enhance their academic skills. CHAPTER 2 REVIEW RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter represents the review related literature, both local and foreign reviewed by the researcher, relevant to this study. The readings are directly concerned with the main concerns of the research study which served as a good background. Related Literature Academic Stress Students on Senior High School have many stressors regarding to their academic demands. According to Oxford Learning(2018), students may experience stress such as upcoming tests, home works, a heavy workload, poor organization skills, not getting enough of sleep, lack of support, and changes the routine. The stress that student have experience are based on the standard on the school whether they focus on their academics or not. Specifically, stress defined as any change or pressure in the environment. According to Thakkar(2018), academic stress can affect mental and physical problem such as depression, anxiety, nervousness, and stress related disorder which can result in lower grades. There are 8% of the students worldwide that are suffering from anxiety. Both stress and anxiety have a negative impact on their social, emotional, and academic success which may include individual's academic frustration, academic conflict, academic anxiety and academic pressure. Stress is one of the top challenges that most students dealing with. Those issues have stressors such as financial problem, overloaded assignments, time management and in aiming for having a high grades. Beacause of this pandemic, most of the students have both physical and mental breakdown(Anderson,2020). Academic stress has been identified as the primary cause of these alarming figures. Lee and Larson(2002) explained that stress as an interaction between environmental stressors, students appraisal and reactions for the same. It has now become a grave reality that is termed as “carrier stopper” According to Carlson(2016), there are 3 negative effects on the students performance which are decreases sleep quality, changes the mood of the student, and mostly failing in class. These effects would lead to negative outcomes specially to those students who pressures of getting high grades, balancing extracurricular while studying and spending time with family. Student today's generation has experiencing stress because they don't know what to do and how they can handle all their struggling in the new normal Education as this challenging academic term begins, and some students are learning remotely, while others are heading back in person we urge educators to pause and reflect on what worked and didn't during remote learning last spring. While we eagerly await the moment when all schools can safely resume in person,we strongly caution against reverting back to the "normal " way of doing things."Normal"was not working for so many student prior to covid-19. Pope D.2020. Related Studies Irawen et al.(2020) stated in their study entitled "Psychological Impacts of Students On Online Learning During The Pandemic COVID-19" that the psychological impact of students on the new mode of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, namely (1) students are bored with online learning after the first two weeks of learning from home, (2) considerable anxiety on research subjects whose parents have low income because they have to buy those materials for the online class program of their children and (3) emotional disturbances are indicated by changes in moods or mood causes by loaded of assignments that are considered ineffective by students. This study presents that most of the students are frustrated in the new mode of learning specially in online classes. Congruently, learning online brings unique challenges to students that would lead to the students to experience stress in their academic fields. According to Mental Health Organization, (2020), at the most basic level, stress is our body’s response to pressures from a situation or life event. Some common features of things that can make us feel stress include experiencing something new or unexpected, something that threatens your feeling of self, or feeling you have little control over a situation. This study can compared it to the certain topic in which stress appears to be way to know that our body is working as it respond to the pressure we encounter. This study features that the common things that can make us feel stress include experiencing new or unexpected of have a little control over a situation. Researchers agree to this statement because the researchers also experiencing this feeling that the student needs to control themselves to handle this unexpected situation. This pandemic is unexpected, this virus is unexpected and many more things we never expect to come. This Education system is one of the reasons why the students feel this stress because students used to be in a face to face class not in a virtual or modular. According to the study of Zaday(2015), Mental Health includes our psychological, emotional and social well-being; it affects our thoughts our feeling and our actions and helps to determine how we make choices, relate to others and handle stress. During this New Normal Education System most of the students been affected of this mental health issue especially stress. Long-term stress increases the risk of mental health such as anxiety and depression that has a possibility affect their academic performances. CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY This chapter provides information on the research method of the thesis. This chapter includes how the researcher made the thesis possible, how they gathered information and location where they conducted the study. This chapter may include research design, research respondents, research locale, data gathering procedure, and qualitative analysis. Research Design This research employs the descriptive method. This study focuses on what are the stressful effects of Grade 12-HUMSS of Notre Dame-Siena College of General Santos City in the new method of learning. Research Respondents The respondents of this study will be ten (10) Grade 12-HUMSS students of Notre Dame Siena College of GSC. The research sample will be obtained through convenient sampling. Through this method, the researcher would identify the causes of stress of Grade 12-HUMSS of NDSC-GSC in the new method of learning. This will enable the researcher to collect data, work effectively, and have a deeper understanding that causes on student's stress. Research Locale This study was conducted at Notre Dame Siena College of General Santos City, this school was selected for knowing and understanding the stresses that new normal education gives to the students, this study has implemented on the Grade 12 HUMSS students of NDSC GSC, the sources of given answers is from online conversation which is more effective because of new normal life, and also to prevent virus from spreading. Due to the new normal situation that we have, no face-to-face interaction is allowed due to the alarming cases of Covid-19. With this, the study will be conducted through social media platform such as messenger app. Research Instrument The instrument to be used will be a researcher-made questionnaire. The draft of the questionnaire was drawn out based on the researcher’s readings, previous studies, professional literature, published and unpublished thesis relevant to the study. A questionnaire was consists of 5 questions which are given to the 10 choosen students of Grade 12-HUMSS of Notre DameSiena College of General Santos City. Data Gathering Procedure The researchers made a letter of approval for the principal of Notre Dame- Siena College of General Santos City in order to conduct the study. The study was then conducted after receiving the approval from the principal. The assigned researchers ask for an interview to the following unemployed participants through the use of social media platform such as messenger, to gather needed data for the student's profile. The researcher can’t have face to face interview in the New Normal Mode in the New Normal of General Santos City. The researchers use social media platform such as messenger to connect with the 10 (Ten) participants of this research to determine The Stressful Effect of the New Normal Education System to the Grade 12-HUMSS Students of Notre Dame-Siena College of General Santos City and to achieve the goal of this research, To let the teacher on how they are going to minimize the stressors of the students in terms of New Normal Education System. In addition, teachers identify specific students who experience stress and take action to address these problems and help the student to enhance their academic skills. Lastly, as the surveillance finished the survey questions, the researchers immediately gathered it. The results would hopefully be the basis for giving the solution to the problem. Qualitative Analysis The researcher will use open and selective coding analyse the data. Open and selective coding was defined to figure out the core variable that includes all of the data. The codes which are applied enable you to organize data so you can examine and analyse them in a structured way, b examining relationships between codes. BIBLIOGRAPHY Anderson,2020A Generation Defined by the Pandemic. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/15/students-continue-be-stressed-aboutcollege-their-futures Carlson,2016.3 Ways Stress Negatively Affects Student Performance. https://partners.pennfoster.edu/blog/2016/september/3-ways-stress-negatively-affectsstudentperformance#:~:text=The%20Mayo%20Clinic%20reports%20stress,angry%20outbursts %20and%20social%20withdrawal.&text=Besides%20directing%20anger%20at%20othe r,and%20respectfully%20engaging%20with%20instructors. 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A public Service Announcement About the Recovery Model. http://dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/143558/Zaday-Melissa-thesis2015.pdf?sequence=1 APPENDIX I QUESTIONNAIRE 1) Are you experiencing stress? 2) Do you think the main reason of your stress is the New Normal Education System? 3) What do you think the causes of your stress in terms of the New Normal Education? 4) How did this stress affect you as a student? 5) How did you overcome this Mental Health issue?
