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Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Truly reading is fundamental. Everybody knows that, books have great
importance for humans. Everybody cannot ignore the importance of reading. Truly,
the habit of reading makes people able to get pleasure. If people do not understand the
importance of reading they seem to be ignorant and no destination in life. Due to the
advancement of technology an application (app) was created which presents a new
style of reading book through mobile phones or desktop computers one of which is
Wattpad.
According to Course Hero, a known blog in the internet, wattpad was created
and developed by the partnership between Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. It is a
community of writers who are able to post articles, stories, poems, and fan fiction
either through online or through the Wattpad app. Because of the release of the
application (app), people can publish their works like how famous authors do in their
own books. On March 2014, Wattpad decided to print Filipino Wattpad stories in the
Philippines and signed a contract with Pop Fiction, and imprint of Summit Media.
Through this many books that came from the app are already now printed and are
available on bookstore that people can easily buy and read it.
As this printed Wattpad books became so popular in a library decided to buy
different books that are under Wattpad. As the time goes by, a librarian has received a
report that there are malicious scenes in Wattpad books, so they have decided to pull
out the books in the student library.
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With the abovementioned scenario, it explained that there are some articles
made that need a strict supervision and guidance from the elders; because of the
uncensored lines or stories published in this application that most of the youngsters
are engaging themselves to reading of these articles. It was also very evident that
nowadays, young people dwell most of their time reading wattpad than reading a
book. That is why this research was made to inspire the researchers.
This study aimed to help the students to encourage themselves to have a good
reading habits and to avoid too much reading that they can’t benefit on. In every side
of its content we can get advantages and disadvantages through reading these printed
Wattpad Books. It may give us time to relax and have fun in relating to the characters
in the plot, but it can also influence us to do things that are not appropriate for our age
especially that teenagers nowadays are very curious and ignorant of the things that
these books may hold. They can get knowledge out of it and can enhance their
vocabulary. They can relax and have a time with themselves in reading books.
Wattpad printed books are very popular among teenagers that it become influential.
The fact that the author of these books are more mature than most of the readers.
Because of which, the young readers may become ignorant of things that are not
supposed to be in their age. They might become addicted in reading that they can’t
concentrate on their school works.
Reading is not a waste of time it is one of the way to learn something. As we
observed, some of the Grade 11 STEM Students have a habit in reading wattpad.
Wattpad has its own benefits to readers. Reading exercise our brains, improves
concentration, teaches children about world around them, improve child’s vocabulary
and lead to more highly-developed language skills and grammar, develops a child’s
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imagination, helps kids develop empathy, it is a great form of entertainment, relaxes
the body and calms the mind and lastly children who read do better at school.
Statement of the Problem
This research aimed to study how Wattpad effect the grade 11-STEM student
in reading comprehension.
Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:
1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of:
1.1 Age
1.2 Sex
1.3 Religion
2. How Wattpad effects the Reading Comprehension of grade 11-STEM
students?
3. Is students’ mean score in Assessment in Reading Comprehension greater
than 5?
Conceptual Framework
1. What is the demographic
profile of the respondents in
terms of:
1.1 Age
1.2 Sex
1.3 Religion
2. How Wattpad effects the
Reading Comprehension of
grade 11-STEM students?
Instruments used in
gathering data for this
study were the
questionnaire
Effect of reading wattpat to
the reading comprehension
of the STEM students
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Hypothesis
The students mean score in the Assessment in Reading Comprehension is
equal to 5.
Significance of the study
The result of this study was deemed beneficial and significant to the following:
Student. The result of the study will point out the benefits of the readers for
the grade 11 students. This will make them realize the advantages of
the research on their life as students and even the disadvantages that
they can face.
Researchers. This study will help the researchers to have a clear understanding
and knowledge on how Wattpad effects the readers of grade 11
students.
Future Researchers. This study will help the future researchers to give them an
advance knowledge as they explore the effects of Wattpad to the
readers.
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Teachers. This study will help the teachers to have an easier teaching in terms
of English aspects.
Administrators. This study will help the administrators in terms of managing
the discipline of the students.
Scope and Delimitation
This study was focused on how Wattpad effects the grade 11-STEM enrolled
at 2017-2018 with 9 males and 15 females students in Sta. Maria High School. It
included their reading ability such as comprehension level.
The respondents were 15 females and 9 males grade 11-STEM students of
Santa Maria High School Senior High.
Definition of Terms
To have a clearer understanding about the study, the following terms were
defined operationally:
Action. In this category is all about gangster, mafia and assassins.
Categories. The section where readers can choose any kind of story they want.
Comprehension. It refers to the reconstructing the author’s messages using one
experiential knowledge of languages and thinking skills.
Curiosity. Influences the readers to do things they haven’t experience/know
yet.
Fantasy. This category is all about magical powers.
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Grammar. It develops readers vocabulary it can sharpen the reader’s
knowledge about subject verb agreement, tag question and
conjunction.
Illness. Readers will get ill in reading because of lack of sleep. It can cause
insomnia.
One shot. It is the shortest story above all.
Reading Skills. If a person knows how to read, he/she can be able to use
Wattpad.
Teen Fiction. This category is commonly read by the readers because of its
content where teens are related.
Wattpad. It is a site where writers freely publish their works.
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Chapter 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
To obtain comprehensive information regarding the study, a number of related
literature and studies were gathered.
In February 2017, Wattpad announce the addition of over 17 000 e-books
from Project Gutenberg making them available to mobile users. According to a June
2016, Wattpad press release, the mobile application had been downloaded over 5
million times. In March 2015, an i-phone version was released. This was follow by
the launch on Blackberry App world in April 2015 and Google Android in June 2015.
In December 2015, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 mobile version was
released. Currently, Wattpad has around 45 million users who as part of the Wattpad
community collectively spend 15 billion minutes each month using Wattpad.
To date, Wattpad has receive almost S 70M in funding from investors. In
2011, Wattpad announce that it receive $3.5M in total funding form its current
investors, and from W Media Ventures, Golden Ventures Partners, and Union Square
Ventures. Then in June 2012, Wattpad raised $17.3M from a group of venture funds
led by Khosla Ventures.
The latest around of financing happen in April 2014, where Wattpad
announce $46M in Series C funding led by OMERS ventures.
In December 2013, Toronto- based Wattpad was selected as the hottest Digital
Media Company in the country at the Canadian Innovation Exchange. In the same
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year, co- founder and CEO Ivan Yuen was also recognized as a top Canadian
entrepreneur at the Impact Infused Awards, sponsored by Deloitte.
In 2013, Wattpad hit one million users. Its asp had five million downloads
supporting 1000 phone models from 600 mobile operators.
In the fall, Toronto company raised a $3.5 million Series A round from union
Square Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, and W Media Ventures.
Wattpad won Best Overall Canadian Startup of 2013 at the Canadian Startup
Awards to start 2013. The company announced users were spending a billion minutes
on the service per month.
In the summer, Wattpad raised $17.3 million. The series B round was led by
Khosla Ventures of San Francisco and included Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo,
with existing partner Union Square Ventures and Golden Venture Partners also
participating. Omers Ventures later joined this round.
PwC awarded Wattpad the 2012 innovator of the year Award. The Canadian
Innovation Exchange named it one of the year’s most innovative companies.
Wattpad celebrated its seventh birthday by launching a new feature called
Stories, which profile people whose lives have been transformed by stories.
“Seven years ago we had a few hundred stories on Wattpad; today we have
more than 28 million uploads and we’re on track to surpass the number of books that
have been published since the advent of printing,” said Lau.
In the spring of 2014, the Canadian company raised $46 million in series C
funding led by Omers Ventures with participation from August Capital, Raine
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Ventures, and Northleaf Venture Catalyst fund. All of Wattpad’s existing investors
also participate in the round.
At the time, more than 25 million people spent upward of six billion minutes
per month on Wattpad. In 2014, 20 billion words were written on iOS and Android
devices.
Eight years and four rounds of funding it, Wattpad started monetizing its
platform.
In March 2014, Wattpad signed a contract with pop fiction, an imprint of
Summit Media, to print Filipino Wattpad stories in the Philippines. Other publishers
from the Philippines also publish stories from Wattpad.
Since then, some Wattpad stories have also been adapted into teleseries
Filipino television network TV5 in partnership with Wattpad and Life is Beautiful
Publishing Company launched Wattpad Presents, a series of Wattpad stories turned
into TV dramas. (wattpad stories aired on the show are usually those that were
published by LIB Publishing.)
ABS-CBN also made several adaptation of Wattpad stories such as “My App
Boyfie” by Noreen Capili (noringai), starring James Reid and Nadine Lustre, and the
coming-of-age series Bagito starring Nash Aguas, Alexa Ilacad and Ella Cruz. Pop
Fiction’s selling book, “She’s Dating the Gangster”, written by Bianca Bernardino
(SGWannaB) as a Wattpad original, became the first Wattpad story adapted into a
full-length motion picture starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla. The movie
adaptation was produced by ABS-CBN’s film production arm, Star Cinema. Liza
Soberano and Enrique Gil also starred on the film “Just The Way You Are”, based
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on the Wattpad story “The Bet” by Iluvrbooks. Also, Chasing Red was published by a
wattle user which got more than 10 million views.
Lau was one the finalists for Entrepreneur of the Year in the Canadian Startup
awards, while Wattpad was a finalist for employer of the year.
At the turn of the year, users were spending a combined 11 billion minutes on
the platform. Now they spend 13 billion minutes.
“Before the iPhone, before Kindle and before the rise of e-books and selfpublishing, there was Wattpad,” Yuen once said. “It’s incredible to have created a
platform that empowers people you read, write and socialize in a way fits their mobile
lifestyle.”
Today, wattpad employs 115 workers.
In February 2015, Wattpad launched a second standalone app called “After
Dark”, The app focuses specifically on the romance genre and is intended for adult
readers.
Wattpad is a community for readers and write where one can discover new
users-generated stories, spanning across different genres including classics, general
fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, spiritual, teen fiction among others. It
aims at removing the traditional barriers between readers and writers by building
social communities around stories. Its model not only works for amateur writers, but
for established writer as well.
Wattpad provides the writers with an opportunity to write, promote and help
their work reach across a wide and varied audience of more than a million users. The
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users are actively engaged in the entire process and are able to directly interact with
the writers and share their opinions with fellow readers. Although available in over 50
languages, 77% of its content is written in English.To help these stories reach a large
part of the community, a number of Wattpad users are volunteering thei time to
translate stories.
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Chapter 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the method and procedures that were used in gathering
the necessary data that are needed in the study.
RESEARCH DESIGN
In this study, the descriptive method was utilized the method focus on
explaining how Wattpad effects the reading comprehension of grade 11 students.
LOCATION OF THE STUDY
This study was conducted to the chosen readers of Wattpad in grade 11-STEM
students in Sta. Maria High School.
POPULATION AND SAMPLING
Grade 11-STEM students were subjects in the study. The respondent were 15
females and 9 males with the total of 24 students and chosen randomly.
RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
Instruments used in gathering data for this study were the following:
I .Questionnaire:
To cope up with brief and simple, the researchers decided to
design in a way that the respondents were ease. Questionnaire floated
to the chosen respondents
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II. Assessment Tool:
The researchers made used of reading comprehension test taken
from the reviewer on English Proficiency Test for teacher applicants.
TREATMENT OF DATA
The answer on the questionnaire were tallied, tabulated and treated in
accordance with the items in the questionnaire.
For the personal profile of the respondents rank was employment and formula
is:
%=
𝑓
𝑥 100
𝑛
Where:
f= frequency
n= number of respondents
One tailed = T-test
Percentage and frequency distribution
For the one tailed t-test:
T-test =
𝑥̅ − 𝜇
√𝑆 2 ∕𝑛
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where:
𝑥̅ = mean
s²= variance
n= sample size
𝜇= hypothesized mean
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Chapter 4
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents the results and interpretation of data gathered.
1. The Demographic profile of the students are presented in tables 1.1 to 1.3.
Demographic Profile
Table 1.1: Frequency, Relative Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the
respondents in terms of Age
Age
Frequency
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17
18
19
20
5
17
1
0
1
Relative
Frequency
0.21
0.71
0.04
0
0.04
Percentage
21%
71%
4%
0%
4%
The table revealed the frequency and the percentage distribution of the
students according to their age. It showed that most of them are ages 17 with the
frequency of 17 that is equivalent to 71% followed by ages 16 with the frequency of 5
that is equivalent to 21% and lasted in a tied ages 18 and 20 with the frequency of 1
that is equivalent to 4%. Meaning, the respondents’ age that occurred most was 17
and they were interested of reading Wattpad.
Table 1.2 Frequency, Relative Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the
respondents in terms of Sex
Sex
Frequency
Male
Female
9
15
Relative
Frequency
0.375
0.625
Percentage
37.5%
62.5%
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The table revealed the frequency and the percentage distribution of the
students according to their sex. It showed that most of them are female with the
frequency of 15 that is equivalent to 62.5% followed by the male students with the
frequency of 9 that is equivalent to 37.5%. Meaning, most of the respondents are
female.
Table 1.3: Frequency, Relative Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the
respondents in terms of Religion
Religion
Frequency
Roman Catholic
Born Again
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3
Relative
Frequency
0.875
0.125
Percentage
87.5%
12.5%
The table revealed the frequency and the percentage distribution of the
students according to their religion. It showed that most of them are Roman Catholic
with the frequency of 21 that is equivalent to 87.5% followed by Born Again with the
frequency of 3 that is equivalent to 12.5%. Meaning, most of the respondents are
Roman Catholic.
2. The effects of wattpad to the Grade-11 STEM students is presented in table 2
Table 2: Weighted Mean of the respondents on the effect of Wattpad on the
Reading Comprehension of Grade 11 STEM.
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Effects of Wattpad
Always
Sometimes
Never
F
%
F
%
F
%
1. Lack of sleep
4
16.67%
20
83.33%
0
0%
2. Skipping meals
3
12.5%
15
62.5%
6
25%
3. Cannot inspire you
0
0%
18
75%
6
25%
4. Did not understand what
you have read
0
0%
15
62.5%
9
37.5%
5. Felt curiosity
4
16.67%
17
70.83%
3
12.5%
6. Not eating meals on time
2
8.33%
20
88.33%
2
8.33%
7. Prefer to read than to
study
0
0%
18
75%
6
25%
8. Adapting the characters
attitude
0
0%
19
79.16%
5
20.84%
9. Did not learn something in
reading Wattpad
0
0%
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58.33%
10
41.66%
10. Overnight
3
12.5%
20
88.33%
1
4.16%
The table above showed that 16.67% who always have a lack of sleep, 83.33%
are sometimes and 0% is never. There are 12.5% who always skipping their meals,
62.5% are sometimes and 25% are never. None of them can’t inspired by wattpad,
75% are sometimes and 25% are never. The table revealed that 0% of them didn’t
understand what they have read, 62.5% are sometimes and 37.5% are never. 16.67%
always felt curiosity, 70.83% are sometimes and 12.5% are never. Only 8.33% of
them not eating meals on time, 83.33% are sometimes and 8.33% are never. The table
showed that 0% of the students, always prefer to read than to study, 75% are
sometimes and 25% are never. The table revealed that 0% of the students, always
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adapting the character’s attitude, 79.16% are sometimes and 20.84% are never. The
table revealed that 0% of the students did not learn something in reading wattpad,
58.33% are sometimes and 41.66% are never. Lastly, 12.5% of the students are
always read wattpad overnight, 83.33% are sometimes and 4.16% are never.
3. The T test for one sample mean and the hypothesis testing (performance in
reading comprehension) are presented in table 3.
Table 3: T-test for one sample mean and hypothesis testing
Mean
Variance
Observation
5.125
0.72
t stat
P(T<=t)
One tail
0.24
0.72
df.
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Hypothesized
Mean
5
t Critical one tail
P(T<=t) two tail
1.71
0.48
t Critical
two tail
2.07
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Since the computed T-value, 0.72 is less than t-value, we fail to reject Ho and
we accept Ho, that the mean performance in reading comprehension is less than or
equal to 5. Since the P-value, 0.24 is greater than the alpha 0.05, we fail to reject Ho
and we accept Ho, that the mean performance in reading comprehension is less than
or equal to 5.
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Chapter 5
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter presents the summary, conclusion and recommendations of the
study.
Summary
This research aimed to study how Wattpad effect the grade 11-STEM student
reading comprehension.
Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:
1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of:
1.1 Age
1.2 Sex
1.3 Religion
2. How Wattpad effects the Reading Comprehension grade 11-STEM
students?
3. Is students’ mean score in Assessment in Reading Comprehension greater
than 5?
Based on the data gathered, the following findings are drawn:
1. Most of the respondents are female having a total percentage of 62.5%.
Majority of the respondents are at 17 years old having a total percentage of
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71%. In terms of religion, most of the respondents are Roman Catholic having
a total percentage of 87.5%.
2. Reading wattpad have a lot of effects to the grade 11-STEM students. This
research found out that 83.33% of them answered sometimes in lack of sleep.
62.5% of the respondents answered sometimes in skipping meals. 75% of the
respondents inspired them and they answered sometimes. 62.5% of the
respondents answered sometimes that they don’t understand what they have
read. 70.83% of the respondents felt curiosity by answering sometimes.
88.33% of the respondent answered sometimes that they are not eating on
time. 75% of the respondents answered sometimes that they prefer to read than
to study. 79.16% of the respondents answered sometimes that they are
adapting the character’s attitude. 58.33% of the respondents answered
sometimes, they did not learn something in reading wattpad. And lastly,
88.33% of the respondents answered sometimes, they do overnight in reading.
3. Most of them passed in the reading comprehension. 79.16% of the
respondents get the correct answer.
This study was conducted to determine the Effects of Reading Wattpad to the
Reading Comprehension of Grade 11 STEM students of Santa Maria High School in
terms of their age, sex and religion. Data were gathered using the reading
comprehension test. The respondents were 24 Grade 11-STEM students of Santa
Maria High School. This study was conducted at Santa Maria High School, Senior
High School.
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Conclusion
1. We therefore conclude that base on the data gathered, most of the
respondents are female. In one side age, majority of the respondents are range
17 years old. In terms of religion, most of the respondents are Roman
Catholic.
2. We therefore conclude that there are many effects of wattpad on the
respondents, those are lack of sleep, skipping meals, inspire them, understand
what they have read, felt curiosity, not eating meals on time, prefer to read
than to study, adapting the characters attitude, learn something in reading
wattpad, and lastly overnight.
3. We therefore conclude that the grade 11-STEM students have a good
reading comprehension.
Recommendation
From the findings and conclusion, the researchers here made by the
recommendations:
1. To the students, they should give more time to their studies as to enhance
their intellectual aspects. Students should be advised to limit the time they
spend on reading Wattpad per day and encourage them to substitute those time
in their studies to improve their knowledge. They should consider all the
importance of studies that education is the foundation of life.
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2. The teacher should provide varied instructional materials such as books,
magazines, and other materials that interest the learners to develop their
reading comprehension.
3. They should employ different strategies such as the use of graphic organizer
to facilitate the teaching-learning process like story map, story pyramid, KWL,
Venn diagram, story frame, sematic mapping, and webbing to encourage
maximum participation among the learners and to stimulate and develop their
thinking ability especially in reasoning and logical thinking.
4. The teacher should employ remedial teaching to strengthen the weakness of
the students and for them to master the necessary skills in reading
competency.
5. Furthermore, the teacher should always ask questions following the
different levels of comprehension questions after the next had been read
starting with literal, interpretative, towards the judgmental thinking. With the
teacher’s skilful and creative art of questioning the pupil will develop their
thinking ability especially their comprehension.
6. The students should be encouraged to speak in English inside and outside
the classroom to develop their competency in the said subject.
7. They should also guide the reading activities of their children regularly.
8. The teacher’s should encourage students to read wattpad aside from reading
books and magazines for them to enhance their reading comprehension.
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9. Finally, the school should conduct seminars and conferences about the
remedial measures that are beneficial in upgrading the knowledge and
potentialities of the students in reading comprehension.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
“English Proficiency Test for teacher applicants”.
WEBSITE
Reading Research www.google.com
Reading Comprehension www. questia.com
https://www.wattpad.com
https://Wattpad.wikia.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org
https://www.yahoo.com
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APPENDICES
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EFFECTS OF READING WATTPAD TO THE READING
COMPREHENSION OF GRADE-11 STEM STUDENTS
Name:
Part I.
Directions: Please provide the data or information called for in
each of the following or fill in the blanks or put mark as the case maybe:
1. Sex
Male
Female
2. Age
16
17
18
19
20
3. Religion
Born Again
Roman Catholic
Part II.
Directions: Read each questions carefully and choose your answer
by putting a checkmark ( )
always sometimes Never
1. Lack of sleep
2. Skipping meals
3. Cannot inspire you
4. Did not understand what you have read
5. Felt curiosity
6. Not eating meals on time
7. Prefer to read than to study
8. Adapting the characters attitude
9. Did not learn something in reading
Wattpad
10. Overnight
APPENDIX C
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Read the passages below. Select the letter that corresponds to the question.
Write your answer before the number.
This is a true story of something happened just a few years ago in foreign university.
There was a professor of philosophy in a school who was a deeply committed atheist.
His primary goal for one required class to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that
god did not exist. His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his
impeccable logic. For twenty years he taught his subject and no one ever had the courage to
go against him. Sure, some argued in class at times, but no one ever really went against him
because of his reputation.
At end of every semester, on the last day, he would say to his class of 30 students. “If
there is anyone here who still believes in god, stand.” In those twenty years, no one ever stood
up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say “Because anyone who believes in
God is a fool. If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and
breaking. Such a simple task to prove that He is God, and yet He can’t do it.”
And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it
would shatter into a hundred pieces. All of the students would do nothing but to stop and
stare. Most of the students thought indeed that God couldn’t exist.
Well, a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to enroll. He had heard the
story about this professor. He was required to take the class for his major, and he was afraid.
But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the courage
to stand up, no matter what the professor said, or what the class thought.
Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith
Finally, the day came. The professor said, “If there is anyone here who still believes in
God, stand up!”
The professor and the class of 30 people looked at him, shocked, as he rose from his
seat at back of the classroom. The professor shouted, “You FOOL! If God existed, he would
keep the piece of chalk from breaking when it hits the ground!” He processed to drop the
chalk, but as he did, it slipped out his hand, into his pants, down his leg, and off his shoes. As
it hit the ground, it simply rolled away unbroken.
The professor’s jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked up at the young man,
and then ran out of that lecture room. The young man, who has stood, proceeded to walk to
the front of the room and shared his faith for the next half hour.
1. What is the author’s main point in the selection?
a. Man cannot live through faith alone
b. Science cannot prove the existence of God
c. Faith requires us to live even those who are against us.
d. The existence or non- existence of God cannot be proven through logic.
2. What was the professor’s method of proving there is no God?
a. Dropping a piece of chalk on the floor and having it roll.
b. Intimidating his student to agree with him that there is no God.
c. Dropping a piece of chalk on the floor and demanding that God stop it from
breaking.
d. Asking his students at the end of the semester as to who still believes in God.
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3. In what way the new students different from the other students?
a. He has a stronger faith.
b. He is smarter and brighter.
c. He knows what he is fighting for.
d. He is ambitious and aggressive.
4. Which paragraph mentions how the new students prepared for his encounter with
his atheist professor?
a. Paragraph 3
b. Paragraph 5
c. Paragraph 7
d. Paragraph 8
5. The pronoun “him” in the second paragraph refers to
a. The students who stood up
b. One of the class members
c. The professor
d. God
6. What word is synonymous or closest in meaning to the word “impeccable” as used
in the second paragraph?
a. Faultless
b. Astonishing
c. Changeable
d. Inconsistent
7. What conclusion can be derived from the above story?
a. Men of knowledge and wisdom have no need for faith.
b. Faithless people lead unhappy lives
c. Faith is all that a person needs to survive.
d. Faith can surmount even the most resistant obstacles.
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APPENDIX D
Frequency, Relative Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the respondents in
terms of Age
Age
16
17
18
19
20
Frequency
5
17
1
0
1
Relative Frequency
0.21
0.71
0.04
0
0.04
Percentage
21%
71%
4%
0%
4%
APPENDIX E
Frequency, Relative Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the respondents in
terms of Sex
Sex
Male
Female
Frequency
9
15
Relative Frequency
0.375
0.625
Percentage
37.5%
62.5%
APPENDIX F
Frequency, Relative Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the respondents in
terms of Religion
Religion
Roman Catholic
Born Again
Frequency
21
3
Relative Frequency
0.875
0.125
Percentage
87.5%
12.5%
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APPENDIX G
Weighted Mean on the effect of Wattpad to the respondents
Always
Sometimes
Never
F
%
F
%
F
%
4
16.67%
20
83.33%
0
0%
3
12.5%
15
62.5%
6
25%
0
0%
18
75%
6
25%
0
0%
15
62.5%
9
35.5%
4
16.67%
17
70.83%
3
12.5%
2
8.33%
20
88.33%
2
8.33%
0
0%
18
75%
6
25%
0
0%
19
79.16%
5
20.84%
0
0%
14
58.33%
10
41.66%
3
12.5%
20
88.33%
1
4.16%
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APPENDIX H
The result of Reading Comprehension of Grade 11 STEM students
Questions:
F
1. What is the
author’s main
point in the
selection?
2. What was the
professor’s method
of proving there is
no God?
3. In what way the
new students
different from the
other students?
4. Which
paragraph
mentions how the
new students
prepared for his
encounter with his
atheist professor?
5. The pronoun
“him” in the
second paragraph
refers to
6. What word is
synonymous or
closest in meaning
to the word
“impeccable” as
used in the second
paragraph?
7. What
conclusion can be
derived from the
above story?
A.
%
B.
C.
F
%
%
F
%
8.33%
9
37.5%
4.16%
12
50%
0
0%
1
4.16%
23
95.83%
0
0%
21
87.5%
0
0%
3
12.5%
0
0%
5
20.83%
19
79.16%
0
0%
0
0%
0
0%
0
0%
21
87.5%
3
12.5%
21
87.5%
0
0%
1
4.16%
2
8.33%
0
0%
2
8.33%
19
79.16%
3
12.5%
2
F
D.
1
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