TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL A DESCRIPTIVE-QUANTITATIVE STUDY ON THE FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS IN TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AY 2017-2018: BASIS FOR THE CREATION OF A LEARNER SUPPORT PROGRAM A Thesis Presented to the Research Committee of the Senior High School Department of Tipas NHS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Practical Research II and Inquiries, Investigation, Immersion (III) MAICA GALE B. QUINACMAN ABIGAIL LORENZO FRANZ GABRIEL NAVALTA PRINCESS JOY GUISIHAN JULIUS V. SIBUNGA MHAYDEL B. SEGUIDO ANDY D. BITAYO FERDINAND ROQUE January 2018 1 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL APPROVAL SHEET In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Practical Research II and Inquiries, Investigation, Immersion (III) in the Second Semester Grade 12 Senior High School Department, this thesis entitled: “A DescriptiveQuantitative Study on the Financial Status of the Senior High Students in Tipas National High School AY 2017-2018: Basis for the Creation of a Learner Support Program” has been prepared and submitted by: Maica Gale B. Quinacman; Abigail Lorenzo; Franz Gabriel Navalta; Princess Joy Guisihan; Julius V. Sibunga; Mhaydel B. Seguido; Andy D. Bitayo; and Ferdinand Roque; who are hereby recommended for oral examination. KOBEY C. GABRIEL, M.A. Research Adviser Approved and recommended by the Committee on Oral Examination with a grade of90.25. LOVELYN M. INTAL Chairman, Board of Panelists Ms.Cathryn Joy Ramos Member Mrs. Love Lyn Intal Member Mrs. Cherry Ignacio Member Accepted and approved in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the subject Practical Research II and Inquiries, Investigation, Immersion in the 2 nd semester Grade 12 of the Tipas National High School- Senior High School Department. ADELYNE T. PALAS, M.A. Focal Person, TNHS-SHS Date: ________________________ GIL M. TEODORO, Ph.D. Principal, Tipas NHS 2 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This thesis will not be possible if not with the help of the following individuals: To Mr. Kobey C. Gabriel, for being a supportive adviser who encourage us to gather all the needed data and guide us to the step- by-step process of research; Mrs. Lovelyn M. Intal for pursuing us to continue the research; Dr. Gil M. Teodoro, for letting us conducting this study; and, to Almighty God that gave us strength to face barriers of the study. 3 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ABSTRACT This study is a Descriptive-Quantitative type of research that describes the status of a variable or phenomena. This study focused to describe the financial status of Senior High Students in Tipas National High School. The researchers also described the respondent's socio-economic status, know they daily allowance, checked their savings, and sources of their allowance. The researchers used stratified-random sampling in selecting target respondents. It is stratified random sampling because respondents are divided in different classification. It was classified by the respondents’ age, section, and the social class where they were belonged. All tracks from grade 11 to 12 were considered in the population and samples (ABM, TVL, and GAS). The setting of the study is in Tipas NHS, because it was convenient for them to gather data. The researchers formulated an instrument, a surrey questionnaire used to collect data. The survey questionnaire contains questions that regards in their financial status like how do they spend their daily allowance, if they had savings, and where do their daily allowance comes from. After getting data from the answers of the respondents, it revealed that most respondents spend their daily allowance wisely. They spend it on important things like foods, transportation and expenses in school like projects and assignments. From the way the respondents answered, the researchers can tell that the questionnaire used showed that their financial management has improved the expenditure of the respondents. 4 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page……………………………………….......... i Approval Sheet……………………………............... ii Acknowledgement………………………….............. iii Abstract………………………………………............ iv Table of Contents……………………………………. viii List of Tables........................................................... List of Figures…………………………………......…. ix CHAPTER 1 TITLE PAGE BACKGROUND AND PROBLEMS OF THE STUDY Introduction 1 Background of the Study 2 Theoretical Framework 5 Research Paradigm 7 Statement of the Problem 8 Hypothesis 8 Purpose of the Study 8 Scope and Delimitations 9 Limitations of the Study 10 Significance of the Study Definition of Terms 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Related Literature 12 5 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Related Studies Synthesis 3 4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Research Design 21 Research Locale 22 Respondents of the Study 22 Sampling Technique 23 Instrumentation 23 Data Gathering Procedure 24 Statistical Treatment 24 DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION Findings and Discussion 5 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS Summary of Findings 46 Conclusion 48 Recommendations 50 REFERENCES APPENDICES 26 51 A: Survey Questionnaire/Instrument 53 B: Letter of Parental Permission 54 C: Survey Consent Letter 55 6 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL D: Validation Forms 57 E. Curriculum Vita of the Researchers LIST OF TABLES TABLE TITLE PAGE 1 24 2 27 3 29 4 31 5 33 6 36 7 37 8 39 9 41 10 11 43 7 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 12 13 14 15 LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE 1 TITLE The Financial Status of Senior High School Students 8 PAGE 6 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER I BACKGROUND AND PROBLEMS OF THE STUDY Introduction There are so many students who consistently experience a big problem about their financial needs. Financial status is the position or ran of someone or a group within the society of how he or they can develop themselves economically, based on the research. Status can be adjudging in two ways: one can earn their social status by their own achievements, which is known as achieved status; then another is ascribed status that alternatively one can be placed in a satisfaction position by the system. The status that most consequential for an individual at a given time is called master status; and another is embodied status where one generates a living through his physical characteristics within the materialistic world. Status can also refer to the relative rank that an individual hold, this includes attendant rights, duties, and lifestyle in the social hierarchy based upon honor and prestige one possesses. Status has two different types that come along with it; achieved and ascribed. In modern societies, occupation is usually thought of as the main determinant of status, but other memberships of associations (such as ethic group, religion, gender voluntary associations, random, hobby) can have an influence. Achieved status means also what individual acquire during his/her lifetime as a result of exercise, knowledge, ability, skill and perseverance. Occupation provides an example of status that may be either achieved or 9 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ascribed. However, business ownership gains more economic gains and financial build-up in faster phase than a stable career. Students are not excluded from financial burden. Even their parents are supporting, it is not enough to sustain school fees and other daily expenditures related to his or her education. Such situation pushes students to work while studying, becoming a working student. In light of this situation, the researchers had had an initiative to describe the financial status of Senior High School (SHS) students in a selected public secondary school. It also aimed describe how they try to manage their allowances or sum of money that they can get from their parents or from their part-time jobs. Background of the Study Regards to the financial status, older students reported greater financial obstacles than younger students, but this was particularly true of students who reported having problem in financial status. This section is all about the financial status of the respondents that the respondents were from senior high level. Based on the observations of the previous researchers, most of the public school students belonged from the lower class to middle class status of economic hierarchy. Typical high school students in Metro Manila are observed to be poor, in general. Several of them are relying on their daily allowance they can get from their parents. Thus, if the parents’ financial and economic condition is not stable 10 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL or unable to afford the educational expenditures of their child, a very big problem and burden not only in the part of the parents, but also for their enrolled child, occurs. Usually, students spend their allowance for daily food and snack, transportation fare, and school materials and fees. This study employs administrative and survey data to assess the impact of students’ financial background on his or her educational sustenance. The academic and financial profiles of students on Tipas NHS Senior HS were analyzed by means of their financial status. The researchers gave lot of focus and examination on what was their economic status in the society. The researchers also examined the positive or negative effects of financial gain or loss to the students’ daily educational activity. The prolonging of studies seems to be an institutional effect to the public; deriving from the conditions of schooling rather than from students; other financial circumstances, was targeted by the respondents. Theoretical Framework The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy introduced by Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his 1984 book titled “The Goal”, which was geared to help organizations continually achieve their goals. Goldrrat (1984) adopted the concept project management with his book “Critical Chains”, was published in 1997. The Theory of Constraints is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints. There is always at least one constraint, and 11 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TOC uses a focusing process to identify constraints and restructure the rest of the organization around it. TOC adopts the common idiom quoted that the chain is stronger than its weakest link. This means that processes, organizations, etc., are vulnerable because the weakest person or part can always damage or break them or at least adversely affect the outcome. The underlying premise of the Theory of Constraints is that organizations can be measured and controlled by variations on three measures: throughput, operational expenses, and inventory. Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell. Operational expense is all the money the system spends in order turn inventory into throughput. Throughput is the rate at which the system generates the money through sales. Before the goal itself can be reached, necessary conditions must be first being met. These typically include safety, quality legal obligations etc. For most businesses, the goal itself is to make money. However, for many organizations and non-profit businesses, making money is a necessary condition for pursuing the goal. Whether it is the goal or a necessary condition, understanding how to make sound financial decisions based on output, inventory, and operating expense is a critical requirement. TOC can be related with the allowance management of students. There we can describe how each student decide and allot his allowance in a daily, weekly, or monthly basis; all for the sake of continuing schooling. 12 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Research Paradigm Input Process •1:1 socio-economic status (SES) or monthly family income (MFI); •1:2 daily (or weekly) allowances; •1.3 current savings; •1.4 daily expenses in school (including amounts); •1.5 salary (if a working student) and; •1.6 sources of financial support? • Survey • Q&A • Data Analysis (frequency, mean, percentage, sum, rate, difference, categories, etc.) • Data Interpretation (Financial Analysis) • Drawing of Conclusion based from the interpretations •-spending daily allowance •-reasons of spending Output • Creation of a Learner Support Program Figure 1: The Financial Status of Senior High School Students Figure 1 above shows the paradigm shows the flow of the research process. In the first arrow-shaped column, the researchers have the input of variables and points that will describe to the financial status of each respondent. Second is the process, which sketches the strategies and methods of how the collected data will be treated; where it includes both descriptive statistics and financial analyses. On the third column, the output that will be the researchers’ outcome or solution to the study problem; the generation or creation of a basis 13 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL for the conduct of a learner support program that aims to increase the financial literacy and competency of the SHS learners. Statement of the Problem The following were the research questions of the study: SOP 1: What is the financial status of the respondents in terms of: 1:1 socio-economic status (SES) or monthly family income (MFI); 1:2 daily (or weekly) allowances; 1.3 current savings; 1.4 daily expenses in school (including amounts); 1.5 salary (if a working student) and; 1.6 sources of financial support? SOP 2: How do the respondents spend their daily allowance? SOP 3: Why do the respondents spend their daily allowance in such manner? SOP 4: What basis is formed from the study findings in order to create a learner support program for financial literacy and competency of the SHS students? Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study was to describe the financial status of senior high school students who were taking all (GAS, ABM, & TVL), track of the Senior High School Program of DepEd. The researchers also wanted to described the student-respondents according to their socio-economic status or class, daily allowance, savings, expenses, earn money and from where they get allowance 14 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL or the source of their financial support. In addition, the researchers also find out how these students manage their daily allowance. Managing how they spend their money, if they have their budget plan for, and evaluate some strategies for them, were also included in this study. Findings of this research would help the senior high students to budget their money and increase their financial literacy even at their teenage. Scope and Delimitations The scope of this study was the description of the financial status of students in Tipas National High School; all tracks from grade 11 to 12 were considered in the population and samples (ABM, TVL, and GAS). The kind of budgeting and financial management done in a day, week, or month, had also been computed. The researchers choose matured students like them because they were in the most interesting stage of development; in how they handle their daily allowance and where they spend it. Limitation of the Study In the limitations, it discussed the weaknesses and the level of availability of the respondents as predicted by the researchers. In doing the research, the weaknesses of the researchers sought on its conduct included the fixing of schedule for each respondent. There was a conflict of time schedule because both of them were busy in their study, but, whether conflict was there or not, the study was continued to examine them. However, the researchers were not too 15 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL much burdened to investigate and observe them because the respondents and the researchers where in the same school. The only chaos was the schedule of time, because sometimes, there was a vacant time for the respondents during classes but not for the researchers. For the sake of this study, the researchers were willed to give more time for the collection of the essential data. Significance of the Study The main significance of this study was to find out and discover all probable status of the respondents in terms of their finance. Also, identification and description of such social aspect is necessary to be investigated, collecting a lot of data regarding on this topic. According to experts, one problem of the students is to manage their financial status that affects their everyday lives. Not only on college students but also in the secondary school level like senior high, because they were not yet fully knowledgeable and literate how to use money. Conducting research like this would help students to budget their daily allowance in the future. So in getting the sample population of the possible respondents, the researchers would be suited with their knowledge in this topic. Definition of Terms The following were the terms defined by the study: Budget- amount of money for daily expenses Expenses- some sort of which money is spent Finance- is a way of how money are handled, spent and saved 16 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Financial Problem- financial problem is a difficulty of resources, especially money. Financial Status- relating to the state of profit or money Lower Class- is an example of a status of one individual in the society (poor) Loan- money that is given to someone for a period of time with a pledge to pay it back Middle Class- is an example of a status of one individual in the society (average) Money- (coins or bills) used to pay for goods, works etc. Status- is a state of one particular society or individual person Tax-is a deduction of salary. Tax is also the budget of the neither government nor country. Upper Class- is an example of a status of one individual in the society (rich) 17 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER II RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents the compilation of related literature and studies regarding the general and specific description of the financial status of students. Following discussion were about their financial literacy and allowance among high learners and college students. Related Literature A US study found out that parent who had low income has an impact on children’s brain development. It has also an impact on the government policies promoting the rule of reducing the family poverty. If these factors are neglected, it creates meaningful effects on children’s brain functioning and cognitive development. Cooper (2015) distinguished two factors of socioeconomic: first, if the parental education and family income; and, effects on brain surface and cortical thickness. While the study finds increases in parental education and family income, they are both associated with increases in brain surface area and it appears that family income has a stronger relationship. In Columbia University in New York, co-author Noble said that relationship between income and brain surface is greatest at the lower end of the family income scale. The team stressed however findings should in no way imply that a 18 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL child’s socioeconomic circumstances lead to an immutable trajectory of cognitive or brain development. Today’s financial markets’ complexity, the connections to human rights are rarely visible until there is catastrophic failure. The global financial crisis in 2008 was demonstrated the widespread impacts on human rights that the financial sector can have. The solution to this problem is that most companies are not for the full social and environmental costs of their operations. As a result, capital is being misallocated. Irresponsible companies are able to raise finance at the same rate as more accountable. It means that financial system is not able to its possibility to sustain inclusive and sustainable development. IHRB’s research thought leadership on the financial sector is looking to add and correct this market failure. They investigated the ways that human rights can help to the design of more sustainable financial system. They work with international organizations and financial institutions to make human rights opportunities highlighted for the leverage to the UN sustainable developmental goals for the financial flows related to climate change (https://www.ihrb.org/focus- areas/finance/). Young people face financial issues at an earlier age than their parents. Decisions about higher education, the need to be able to manage online payment facilities, or even mobile phone plans, require a level of financial literacy. PISA 2012 offered an opportunity to collect information about the financial literacy of Australian 15-year-old students, and compare that with their peers internationally (Thomson, 2015). 19 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Harris (2011) stated that there are many articles about space management, including those that discuss space calculations and categories, fewer articles that discuss the space budgeting processes are used by administrators to devote space. The discussion of effective space budgeting practice and processes were needed by administrators to devote space. The discussion of effective space budgeting practices and processes needed from administrators is the focus of such articles. Their article attempts the author to fill this void by discussing administrative matters with middle Tennessee State University space budgeting process and her discoverable observation of space budgeting practice of other institution. Palmer (2014) concluded that their decisions that make your small actions affects in budgeting. It started changes alternative formula for budgeting. These are zero-base budgeting, planning, programming and budgeting systems. Incremental process is known as the most common tool with the help of the experience that suggests some questions that can guide the work of community college. Wills & Matt (2011) found out that school finance reform has a wrench component for transforming public schools in the United States. Student based budgeting concedes for a more proper and logical allocation of funds among students and schools with varying levels and types of needs and better alignment of school budgets with institutional goals. This article illustrates how the authors helped the Oakland in California use by students. 20 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL According to Zierdt (2009), Higher Education Institutions in the United States are entering a new era in budgeting. Institutions are actively engaging in dialogues achieving institutional goals and objectives within their strategic plans and being accountable for the use of scarce resources. This paper introduces commonly use budgeting tools for higher education institutions and provides an expanded overview of one specific. Weiss (2011) said that “As a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) for the past 16 years, although cuts are always frustrating and their results were burdensome, the school has been able to “hang on” reasonably well. This year, however, the budget cuts were extreme.” Weiss (2011) discusses how to teach students about budget cuts. According to Perry (2013), the effects of linking school districts funding directly to the students they serve and providing local schools districts and communities with more control over how that money is spent could ripple through the entire k-12 system, from the state capital to the classroom. In the process, the SSFR partners identified some strategies likely to prove useful to any district leaders wanting to find effective ways to put more budget control into the hands of their school principal staffs and communities. Levenson (2012) challenged school superintendents, central office, leaders, building principals and school board members to think about school budgeting and offers a compelling way that experiencing an extended period of financial constraints. Fast-growing high need student population will continue to 21 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL test superintendents and school boards as they seek to prepare students for a globally competitive environment with fewer resources. Szatmary (2011) emphasized other university over the country is having a bad time with their financial challenges, continuing education units serve the same pioneering role in process of new financial and budget systems. Universities administrations began to focus on new budget & revenue allocation models. The project’s future trends and assistance in the decision-making process have at least five budget models. The activity based models are most efficient when universities meet certain condition. The number of different services and variations on those services is the most useful for a large university. The activity based budget model can support a centralized one, or combination of two it simply prefers information about financial performance within and between academic units for the people during decisions. A study revealed that school budget hold is designed to help school districts rethink budgeting process. This way explains a long-term visioning exercise around how the districts that benefit the student. It also helps students step outside of the container of day-to-day decision making. The importance of school budgets holds them and can be used for different ways and context. Other authors reduce some ways; first, look for address of a looming budget. Second, support difficult choices. Third, is education policy students looking for a handson approach to complement their course work (https://eric.ed.gov/? q=articles+about+ budgeting +for+ students&pg=2&id=ED541225). 22 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Utilizing NELS information inspects parent’s idea of paying for school before their understudies enter secondary school. Discoveries showed that racial riches incongruities may help clarify contrasts and low-salary families who were more averse to have data about budgeting guide and more prone to report that their youngsters should acquire ease for school. The outcome recommended that accessibility of assets may cost influence among African American guardian’s view of absences of data characteristics, resulting the impression of panic and low-pay (Warnock, 2016). McGregor (2016) said that some students with learning disabilities go to college and they want to manage on their own. It only means that they don’t want extra help. McGregor cleared that if you are entering the journey of being a college student, you may face chaos that came up to harder if you have a learning disability. He admitted that it is interesting if someone know what type of learning disability they had. So, McGregor was willing to investigate the specific type of having challenges students have. College students who receive special accommodations because of a learning disability say that they have less difficulty completing assignments and more contact with faculty outside of class than peers who don’t receive extra help. A new study found out that only one third of undergraduates from 11 universities who reported having learning disability were accommodation. It describes a desire to be independent on money. 23 receiving TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Table 1 Percentage Distribution of Socioeconomic Classes in the Philippines CLASS % SHARE IN NUMBER OF FAMILIES % SHARE IN TOTAL INCOME AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME AB 1% 9% PHP1,857,000 C 9% 26% PHP603,000 D 60% 56% PHP191,000 E 30% 9% PHP62,000 Total 100% 100% PHP206,000 Source: https://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/sec-abcde-percentage-population/ Table 1 above shows the percentage distribution of socio-economic classes in the Philippines. Only 1% of the Filipino families belong to class AB where wages amount up to 2 million pesos annually, while 56% came from the class D of workers with annual average income of P191, 000.00. The table above was used by the researchers in constructing a scale for the SES demographic profile surveying of the respondents. Related Studies According to the authors Garieby, Elgar, Sentenac, & Leigh (2017), family income affects the subjective well-being of adolescence. However, it included the how and the flow of their income expansion from childhood to adolescence. In early childhood, it can cause the enlarging of expenses that had reached adolescence stage; that can come up with a family having lower income. The more children grown up, the more they spent that they become in a low income class. The timing and duration of low family income in childhood both predict individual differences in adolescents. 24 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL A random study, “Effect of Family Income on the Relationship Between Parental Education and Sealant Prevalence, national Health and Nutrition Examination Survey” (2015) examined about the different levels of the family income between sealant prevalence and parental education. It describes variables like family income, health insurances status and regular source of medical care and for future. In bivariate analyses, higher parental education and family income were independently associated with higher sealant prevalence. In multivariate analysis, higher parental education was associated with sealant prevalence among higher among children, but not among low-income children. Hitchcock (2008) found out that a low-income family will pay almost 40% of the family income for a student to attend a public four-year school. The cost attendance rose dramatically over 30% with this dramatic increase. It is no wonder that parents and students are concerned about the impact of college attendance on family financially well-being. Academic advisors traditionally have referred financial questions to the financial and office on the other hand, this is not always necessary. Many parents and students are completely aware to the issue surrounding the financing of college. Holistic academic advising on incorporated financial issues, career planning, and major selection, are integral to student success. Now, the students experience the freedom of college life and desire to maintain or gain certain lifestyle. Financial concerns often shift once a student entered college. The initial fear of paying for college is over on the surface. It may appear that college students leaving on campus should have a little or no expenses. 25 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL According to Richardson (2016), “Students’ financial variables appear to lead to poor mental health rather than metal health problems leading to a financial situation. In any case, there appears to be a directional relationship between financial difficulties and global mental health and alcohol dependences with finances worsening mental health hand vice versa suggesting a various cycling developing”. Research in the US has seen that approximately 15.6% of university students meet the diagnostic criteria for a depressive or anxiety disorder, and its appear that this problem only grows over the typical four-year undergraduate those without any mental health issues as freshman 9% developed the symptoms of clinical depressive and 20% met the criteria for anxiety by the end of their second year. The data revealed that experiencing greater financial stress early on in college, like feeling that you are unable to pay bills, is predictive of poorer global mental health and higher depression, stress and alcohol dependence. According to Holland (2014), the realistic budget with your students is challenge on arriving workable time. No two budgets will be exactly the same, just like snowflakes on winter season. Colleges post estimates of anticipated living expenses on their website, but those estimates are not always accurate. And of course, your financial situation will be a factor, along with the amount of loans your students take out of college some parent or guardian to just support a pupil with a set of amount of cash every month. Jeanne Arguelles of Rockwall, Texas, is one and Spanish double major and cheerleader at Notre Dame. She said, “Her schedule doesn’t allow time for a job, so we provide her with spending 26 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL money.” The good news, Arguelles stated, is that Ali is having a hard time that she doesn’t have time to spend much, and she is generally responsible with whatever spending she does some children is entirely responsible for their own spending money because their parents are making them responsible or independent. Katlheen Fennell of Valiant, Oklahoma, said she and his husband told their daughter that they would not pay for it. Both of their daughters got scholarships and worked during summer reaction. “They learned to live within their means”. Fennell, said “Coming up with money saving strategies like finding textbooks on Ebay”. Increments in educational cost over California’s offer of four-year colleges have heightened worries about the reasonableness of a school instruction, particularly in for those with the most minimal earnings. In state, full of educational cost at the University of California (UC) WA significantly higher than at other state funded colleges in different states over the previous decay. Amid this same period, the government, state, and institutional allow and moderate four under studies from lower and center pay families extended. This helped bring down salary families’ stay aware of rising educational, however, the maximum of school reasonable for under studies from low and center wage families. Likewise, given current educational cost levels, it is more essential than any other time in recent memory for the state to guarantee that all under studies round at money related guide shapes and can undoubtedly get to instruments that can enable then to comprehend the monetary a guide bundles they are advertising (Jackson, 2014). 27 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Soria, Weiner, & Lu (2014) found out that low resources from working class face many struggles to the costs and affordability of higher education; yet, small is known about the financial decisions made by these company of students while they are in higher education, and their choices might differ from average upper-class students. The data was used from students, at six large public research universities in 2012; researchers investigated the different financial decisions of 16 undergraduate students. Results recommend that low income and working class students are more likely to expense, serve as distraction and bad impact to their immediate academic performance. Conger (2010) stressed that social class or socio-economic status (SES) is related to satisfaction and stability in romantic unions, the quality of parentchild relationships, and a range of development outcomes for adults and children. This view focuses on evidence regarding potential mechanism proposed to account for these associations. Research findings reported during the past decade demonstrating support for an action interactionist model of the relationships between SES and family life, which incorporates assumptions from both the social causation and social selection perspectives. The review concludes with recommendation for the future research on SES, family process, and individual development in terms of important theoretical and methodological issues yet to be addressed. “Teaching financial literacy is important at all stages of life, but is often neglected with elementary students. In this article, the authors describe a strategy for teaching financial literacy using the books about Max and Ruby by 28 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Rosemary Wells. These books can help introduce the five key concepts of financial literacy: scarcity, exchange, money, saving, and giving. The practical and hands-on classroom activities they propose integrate the stories, language arts, and financial literacy through dramatic retelling, using graphic organizers, a learning center, writing and drawing activities, and classroom conversations (Brown & Ferguson, 2017).” “A recent meta-analysis of the effect of financial literacy and financial education on downstream financial behaviors has shown a weak collective impact of the work of financial education. While the findings are not stellar, they do not support a dismantling of financial education programs and funding. This paper examines the findings of the meta-analysis and discusses the implications for the field. In this discussion, a more thoughtful consideration of the ways to provide financial education and the manner about how to influence behavior is highlighted. In addition, this article proposes a systematic examination of why timely educational approaches should coexist with longer-term financial education programming. The field also needs a more rigorous examination of factors that impact intervention effectiveness, including a call for improved research protocol and evaluation and a plea for greater visibility between researchers and practitioners (Hensley, 2015).” Kezar& Yang (2010) said, “In this article, the authors argue that campus communities must play a more active role in developing financial literacy than they currently do--and not just by providing counseling in moments of emergency. They argue that financial literacy, as a life skill, as a requisite to 29 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL citizenship, and as a critical intellectual competency, is an essential component of a college degree. By engaging in financial literacy activities, students hone critical thinking, judgment, and other skills of a responsible citizen. In the remainder of this article, the authors explore current financial education practices on college campuses, make recommendations to educators on developing financial education on their own campus, and conclude with a review of best practices in financial education.” Synthesis After collecting literatures, the researchers would create their synthesis. The synthesis contains the summary of some points from gathered related literature and research study. The researchers found article that were related to their topic. The topic that the researchers choose was the financial status of students in Tipas National High School in Taguig City. Most of the literature was about budgeting and managing financial status of students including the background of students regarding to their family income and status. One article elaborates the effect of family income between parental educations, it only indicated what the readers must know; and that is to have a control over their finances. Cooper (2015) had the same idea that family income gives impact to kid’s brain development. He also distinguished two factors that effects on brain surface area and cortical thickness these are parental education and family. Warncok (2016) also agreed that parents have difficulties to pay their children’s tuition having a low income. Families with low income are craving for 30 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL financial aid that can help them to avail their need in school. Authors said that it may affect the financial status, because children became adolescences the more they grew up the more expenses they had. So some researchers provide some ways or steps that students may benefit. But first there are also some difficulties that may face in the budgeting of their finances. In students, they can lead them to poor mental health. So if your child is in the first stage of budgeting in college, they might ask more experts or even their professor. In the article mentioned in this chapter, there are undergraduate students that came from low-income and working-class bracket that they can’t afford the cost of higher education. The financial challenges encountered by low-income students can negatively impact their trajectory to graduation; and to the working students, who were more likely to work longer hours rather than to study. The researchers observed from the articles that most of the students and families who had low-income generation can affect their status in life commonly in education. The compiled articles from various sources announce the very diverse economic condition of many people, particularly students in different schools. A vast number of factors in social context had also been revealed by other authors and researchers with regards to the financial conditions of learners in school. With such diversity, the researchers were pushed to investigate about the living and financial condition of the students in Tipas National High School, targeting a specific group of respondents (sample). 31 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This chapter presents the method of how the data was collected. Parts of this are research design, sampling technique, locale, respondents, instrumentation, data analysis strategy, data gathering procedure, and statistical treatment applied for the data. Research Design This study was a Quantitative Research that defines the statistical perspective based on the idea of the topic, with regards to the topic that describes the financial status of senior high school students in Tipas National High School. The researchers made their best to collect the data that can give the needed answers of what and why. The information that had come up to this topic became the basis of the researchers to interpret the data. The researchers called it as a descriptive design because it describes the states of financial aspects among the target respondents. It described what financial status they manifest and how they get their financial aid and do their financial self-support. Raising this kind of topic can help the researchers know the probable source of their financial status. 32 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Research Locale Tipas NHS was built at Palingon in year 2002. The first students of Tipas NHS before was from Palingon and Ligid citizens only; but now, their students were from different citizens of Taguig City and Pateros likeLigid, Palingon, Calzada, Napindan, Ibayo, Sta. Ana, Ususan, Tuktukan, and Brgy. San Roque, Pateros. The researchers chose Tipas NHS because it was convenient for them to gather data. The respondents were from SHS of Tipas NHS. All tracks from grade 11 to 12 were considered in the population and samples (ABM, TVL, and GAS). The researchers chose them because the topic was regarding their financial status. Respondents of the Study The researchers’ respondents were from the SHS of Tipas NHS. The coverage of the respondents was only the Grade 11 and 12 enrollees from all sections of all strands offered by the school. The researchers chose the respondents because they can make time to collect the data fast. The searchers asked the admin the total classroom students to their population and sample of respondents. The following breakdowns of the respondents are these: 33 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Table 2 Demographic Profile of the Students According to Gender Frequency Percentage Gender (f) (%) Male 25 37% Female 42 63% Total n=67 100.0 In the table above, there are only 2 kinds of gender; male and female. The researchers got the highest percent of female because they are more interesting to the topic survey than the males. The percent of female is 63% compare to male who got 37%. Surveys that regard to income in a family were more observably dominated by women. In a previous study, 80% of women are budgeting. For example, in a family, most people who had handled the income for the family were women because they are the ones who were left in the house to take care of their children rather than their husbands who work for the family outside. Budgeting is not an easy work. Table 3 Demographic Profile of the Students According to Age Frequency Percentage Age (f) (%) 19 and above 7 2% 18 21 9% 17 32 48% 16 6 9% 15 and below 1 2% Total n=67 100.0 34 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL The table above describes the age of the respondents of the researchers that come up to the survey questionnaire provided. The first column is the ages of the respondents. Second column is the frequency for each age range. Frequency is the total value that came from the respondents regarding to something. And the third one, are the percent or rates of the frequency over n. After getting the total frequency of all ages, the researchers analyzed the age that gained the highest and the lowest percent rates. The highest percentage is the age of 17 (48 percent). It only proves that most of the senior high students were in the age of 17. And, 2% got the lowest percent rate that is aged 15 and below. There was an article that describes how age changes the family status of a child. Gariepy, Elgar et.al (2017) said in their article entitled, “Early-life family income and subjective well-being in adolescences) that age can affect the low family income of a family because children are growing. This means that the family needs are becoming larger continuously. 35 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Table 4 Demographic Profile of the Students According to Section Frequency Percentage Section (f) (%) 1 21 31% 2 24 36% 3 11 16% ABM 2 3% TVL 9 14% Total n=67 100.0 For this table of section frequency distribution, the sections selected were only at the Senior High department (Senior High students). The students in Tipas National High School were divided and classified in their chosen strand. In Tipas National High School, there were three strands offered: General Academic Strand (GAS), Accounting Business and Management (ABM), and Technical Vocational-EIM. These strands are available in the school. Since the respondents and researchers have the same school attended, they have the capability to easily gather the observational data and answers they need. Sampling Technique The researchers used a type of sampling technique called stratified random sampling technique, which describes the population of the respondents into strata, and then the respondents will be divided in random selected samples from each stratum. The target respondents of the topic were the senior high 36 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL school students of Tipas National High School. That had been divided into different classifications. It was classified by the respondents’ age, section, and the social class where they were belonged. Instrumentation To make the research light up, the researchers formulated an instrument that reflects the SOP’s of the study. The instrument was a survey questionnaire that regards with the financial status of the students targeted. The Part I of the questionnaire was about the demographic profile, which enabled the researchers to know what the personal background of the student was. Part II was the way for the researchers to know what the condition is in the financial aspect of the SHS students. Lastly, Part III was the ways for the researchers know how the SHS spend their money in a specific period of time. The Instrument or the Survey Questionnaire helped the researchers to gather the data on or what were the answers in questions like “How do you spend your daily allowance?” and “How do you spend your allowance like that?” (See Appendix). Before distribution, the researchers submitted the draft to three experts for the validation of the items. Validating experts were composed of a Social Science teacher, an entrepreneur, and a TLE teacher. Criteria for validation of the items include brevity, coherence, relevance, focus, and clarity. After passing the validation phase (mean≥3.00), instrument had been pilot-tested with a pilot n of 20. Correlation was resulted as positive, meaning that the questionnaire was 37 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL reliable enough. Below is the table showing a summary of the validity computation results of the instrument used by the researchers: Table 5 Validity Measurement of the Instrument Mean 1 Mean 2 Mean 3 Overall Mean 4.00 4.8 3.00 11.8/3 3.76 Note: Overall Mean ≥ 3.00 = valid instrument, otherwise invalid After the validation, a pilot testing was conducted by the researchers by administering the validated instrument using a similarly defined sample of respondents (n≤20). The Cronbach Alpha value computed was positively correlated. By convention, an alpha value of 0.70 or higher is said to indicate that there is reliability on and among the items of the instrument used for the survey. Administering and Data Gathering Procedure In conducting the survey, the researchers followed some steps and guidelines of correct procedure. After getting the total population that was considered to be the origin of the sample, the researchers checked how the schedule of the students and their schedule were not conflicting. The researchers started to conduct the survey by introducing the topic itself. After that, they elaborated the purpose of the study and how significant the study was for the researchers. Explaining every part of the survey questionnaire can help the respondents understand the activity well. After identifying the questionnaire in every part, the researchers guided the respondents in 38 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL answering. There were respondents that could not understand some words that the researchers must define or give a synonym. However, how thankful the researchers were because their respondents gave the study high value and participation. Data Analysis Strategy In statistics, a frequency distribution is a table that displays the frequency of various outcomes in a sample. Each entry in the table contains the frequency or count of the occurrences of values within a particular group or interval, and in this way, the table summarizes the distribution of values in the sample. An example is a univariate (i.e. single variable) frequency table. The example frequency of each response to a survey question is depicted below: Table 6 Example of a Univariate Frequency Table Rank Degree of agreement Number 1 Strongly agree 20 2 Agree somewhat 30 3 Not sure 20 4 Disagree somewhat 15 5 Strongly disagree 15 A different tabulation scheme aggregates values into bins such that each bin encompasses a range of values. For example, the heights of the students in a class could be organized into the following frequency table: 39 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Table 7 Example of a Bin Type of Frequency Table Height range Number of students Cumulative number less than 5.0 feet 25 25 5.0–5.5 feet 35 60 5.5–6.0 feet 20 80 6.0–6.5 feet 20 100 A frequency distribution shows us a summarized grouping of data divided into mutually exclusive classes and the number of occurrences in a class. It is a way of showing unorganized data e.g. to show results of an election, income of people for a certain region, sales of a product within a certain period, student loan amounts of graduates, etc. Some of the graphs that can be used with frequency distributions are histograms, line charts, bar charts and pie charts. Frequency distributions are used for both qualitative and quantitative data. Construction of frequency distributions can be done using the following steps: 1. Decide about the number of classes. Too many classes or too few classes might not reveal the basic shape of the data set; also it will be difficult to interpret such frequency distribution. The maximum number of classes may be determined by formula: or where n is the total number of observations in the data. 2. Calculate the range of the data (Range = Max – Min) by finding minimum and maximum data value. Range will be used to determine the class interval or class width. 40 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 3. Decide about width of the class denote by h. Generally, the class interval or class width is the same for all classes. The classes all taken together must cover at least the distance from the lowest value (minimum) in the data set up to the highest (maximum) value. Also note that equal class intervals are preferred in frequency distribution, while unequal class interval may be necessary in certain situations to avoid a large number of empty or almost empty classes. 4. Decide the individual class limits and select a suitable starting point of the first class which is arbitrary, it may be less than or equal to the minimum value. Usually it is started before the minimum value in such a way that the midpoint (the average of lower and upper class limits of the first class) is properly placed. 5. Take an observation and mark a vertical bar (|) for a class it belongs. A running tally is kept till the last observation. 6. Find the frequencies, relative frequency, cumulative frequency etc. as required. 7. Joint frequency distributions. 8. Bivariate joint frequency distributions are often presented as (twoway) contingency tables. 9. The total row and total column report the marginal frequencies or marginal distribution, while the body of the table reports the joint frequencies.[3] 10. Applications 41 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 11. Managing and operating on frequency tabulated data is much simpler than operation on raw data. There are simple algorithms to calculate median, mean, standard deviation etc. from these tables. 12. Statistical hypothesis testing is founded on the assessment of differences and similarities between frequency distributions. This assessment involves measures of central or averages, such as the mean and median, and measures of variability or statistical dispersion, such as the standard deviation or variance. 13. A frequency distribution is said to be skewed when its mean and median are different, or the same, depending on the textbook. The kurtosis of a frequency distribution is the concentration of scores at the mean, or how peaked the distribution appears if depicted graphically—for example, in a histogram. If the distribution is more peaked than the normal distribution it is said to be leptokurtic; if less peaked it is said to be platykurtic. 14. Letter frequency distributions are also used in frequency analysis to crack codes and are referred to the relative frequency of letters in different languages. There also graphs that can help researchers. In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a graph is a structure amounting to a set of objects in which some pairs of the objects are in some sense "related". The objects correspond to mathematical abstractions called vertices (also called nodes or points) and each of the related pairs of 42 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL vertices is called an edge (also called an arc or line).Typically, a graph is depicted in diagrammatic form as a set of dots for the vertices, joined by lines or curves for the edges. Graphs are one of the objects of study in mathematics. The edges may be directed or undirected. For example, if the vertices represent people at a party, and there is an edge between two people if they shake hands, then this graph is undirected because any person A can shake hands with a person B only if B also shakes hands with A. In contrast, if any edge from a person A to a person B corresponds to A's admiring B, then this graph is directed, because admiration is not necessarily reciprocated. The former type of graph is called an undirected graph and the edges are called undirected edges while the latter type of graph is called a directed graph and the edges are called directed edges. Statistical Treatment Descriptive statistics (in the count noun sense) are summary statistics that quantitatively describe or summarize features of a collection of information, while descriptive statistics in the mass noun sense is the process of using and analyzing those statistics. Descriptive statistics is distinguished from inferential statistics(or inductive statistics), in that descriptive statistics aims to summarize a sample, rather than use the data to learn about the population that the sample of data is thought to represent. This generally means that descriptive statistics, unlike inferential statistics, is not developed on the basis of probability theory even when a data analysis draws its main conclusions using inferential 43 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL statistics, descriptive statistics are generally also presented. For example, in papers reporting on human subjects, typically a table is included giving the overall sample size, sample sizes in important subgroups (e.g., for each treatment or exposure group), and demographic or clinical characteristics such as the average age, the proportion of subjects of each sex, the proportion of subjects with related co morbidities, etc. Some measures that are commonly used to describe a data set are measures of central tendency and measures of variability or dispersion. Measures of central tendency include the mean, median and mode, while measures of variability include the standard deviation (or variance), the minimum and maximum values of the variables, kurtosis and skewness. Descriptive statistics provide simple summaries about the sample and about the observations that have been made. Such summaries may be either quantitative, i.e. summary statistics, or visual, i.e. simple-to-understand graphs. These summaries may either form the basis of the initial description of the data as part of a more extensive statistical analysis, or they may be sufficient in and of themselves for a particular investigation. For example, the shooting percentage in basketball is a descriptive statistic that summarizes the performance of a player or a team. This number is the number of shots made divided by the number of shots taken. For example, a player who shoots 33% is making approximately one shot in every three. The percentage summarizes or describes multiple discrete events. Consider also the grade point average. This single number describes the general performance of a student across the range 44 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL of their course experiences. In mathematics, mean has several different definitions depending on the context. In probability and statistics, population mean and expected value are used synonymously to refer to one measure of the central tendency either of a probability distribution or of the random variable characterized by that distribution. In the case of a discrete probability distribution of a random variable X, the mean is equal to the sum over every possible value weighted by the probability of that value; that is, it is computed by taking the product of each possible value x of X and its probability P(x), and then adding all these products together. An analogous formula applies to the case of a continuous probability distribution. Not every probability distribution has a defined mean; see the Cauchy distribution for an example. Moreover, for some distributions the mean is infinite: for example, when the probability of the value is for n = 1, 2, 3... For a data set, the terms arithmetic mean, mathematical expectation, and sometimes average are used synonymously to refer to a central value of a discrete set of numbers: specifically, the sum of the values divided by the number of values. The arithmetic mean of a set of numbers x1, x2, ..., xn is typically denoted by , pronounced "x bar". If the data set were based on a series of observations obtained by sampling from a statistical population, the arithmetic mean is termed the sample mean to distinguish it from the population mean. For a finite population, the population mean of a property is equal to the arithmetic mean of the given property while considering every member of the population. For example, the population mean height is equal to the sum of the 45 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL heights of every individual divided by the total number of individuals. The sample mean may differ from the population mean, especially for small samples. The law of large numbers dictates that the larger the size of the sample, the more likely it is that the sample mean will be close to the population mean. The researchers had used frequency distribution and descriptive statistics to present, analyze, and interpret the collected data. 46 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER IV DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATIONS This study is a quantitative study that describes the financial status of SHS in Tipas National High School. The researchers construct a survey questionnaire used to gather data. This chapter presents the results and findings of the study, followed by its interpretations and discussions of the numerical values. SOP 1: What is the financial status of the respondents in terms of: 1:1 socio-economic status (SES) or monthly family income (MFI); Table 8 Demographic Profile of the Students According to Monthly Family Income (MFI) Frequency Percentage MFI (f) (%) P30,001 and above 3 4% P25,001-30,000 2 3% P20,000-P25,000 5 8% P15,001-P20,000 14 21% P10,001-P15,000 7 10% below P10,000 Total 37 n=67 54% 100.0 Table 8 shows how the respondents ranged in their monthly family income (MFI). It shows there that most of the respondents range within 10,000 and below (pesos) monthly family income, while few of the respondents range in 25,000 to 30,000 monthly family incomes. Therefore, almost half of the SHS from TNHS is 47 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL having the lowest monthly family income and only 3 percent of it is having an above average monthly family income. According to Noble (2015), in his article entitled 'Family Income May Influence Kids Brain Development’, it tackled that there's an effect on what income family had. It affects the learning opportunities caused by no capability to purchase nutrients that they need especially to the students. Table 9 Demographic Profile of the Students According to Socio-Economic Class (SEC) Monthly Income Frequency Percentage SEC (Source: See Table 1) (f) (%) AB P50,251-P154,750 9 13% C P15,917-P50,250 24 36% D P5,167-P15,916.670 25 37% E P1-P5166 9 14% Total n=67 100.0 From table 9, it describes the socio-economic status of the respondents. Socio-economic status (SEC) measure of family's economic and social position related to income and education. SEC is used to depict economic differences. In this table, it was evident that SEC D got the highest rates of f=25 followed by SEC C F=24 (36%) while SEC AB got the lowest percent with 13%. Copper (2015), raised two factors of socioeconomic. First, if the parental education and family income are low, there's an effect on the brain surface and cortical thickness. Second, study finds if parental education and family income increased, there's also increased in brain surface area and it can keep family income stable. 48 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 1:2 daily (or weekly) allowances; Table 10 Daily Allowance of the Respondents Frequency Percentage Daily Allowance (f) (%) P201 and above 2 3% P101-P200 3 5% P51-P100 24 36% P20-P50 38 57% Total n=67 100.0 Table 10 shows the daily allowances of the respondents gathered from the answers in the survey. The highest and lowest frequencies of the respondents were 38 and 2, respectively. Almost half of the respondents had an allowance costing P20-P50. Since the respondents were near and convenient to go in school, they might have the average allowance given to them. Having that kind of allowance, there were some consequences like they can't afford for materials needed in school activities. Table 11 Daily Amount Expend from the Allowance of the Respondents Frequency Percentage Amount (f) (%) P201 and 2 2.99% above P101-P200 3 4.48% P51-P100 14 20.89% P20-P50 48 71.64% Total n=65 100 49 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL In this table, it tackles about the respondents’ daily amount spent from the allowance provided to them. The highest percentage got the respondents have P20-P50 having 71.64% while the lowest got 21.99%, wherein the respondents have an allowance of only P51-P100. Since students on the respondents were living near the school, the researchers believed that they have only little amount of money in terms of daily allowance. Several students were only walking from their houses to school. The students with high allowance can save because they don’t need to spend it for transportation. 1.3 daily expenses in school (including amounts) and; Table 12 Expenses from the Daily Allowance of the Respondents Frequency Percentage Expenses (f) (%) transport fare food, drinks, and snack school projects, assignments, and materials school programs and events work immersion/OJT fees cigarette and alcohol mall/shopping dating others Total 50 21 31.34% 34 50.74% 11 16.42% 0 0% 0 0% 1 1.5% 0 0% 0 0% 0 n=67 0% 100 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Table 12, shows the different expenses spent from the daily allowance of the respondents. The possible expenses were divided into 9 choices. The highest frequency was in foods, drinks and snack that got f=34 and the lowest frequency was cigarette and alcohol with only f=1. Palmer (2014) concluded that your decisions that make small actions affects in budgeting. Foods, drinks and snack that are majority answered by the respondents are considered as primary needs in a day basis. These things help students to gain energy and more productive to do school works. 1.4 sources of financial support? Table 13 Sources of the Allowance of the Respondents Frequency Percentage Source (f) (%) Parents 61 91.04% Other Relatives Work Others Total 3 4.48% 2 2.99% 1 1.49% n=67 100 The respondents of Tipas National High School asked where do they allowance coming from, 61 answered they allowance came from their parents and 2 answered the money they spend because they are working. Since the respondents are only students, they are depending on their parents in expenses in school. However, in students who are working, they can have difficulties in reaching college compared from their classmates who were 51 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL more affluent and have enough finances on a day-to-day basis. They were also less likely to attend college, persist, and graduate regardless of their academic ability. SOP 2: How do the respondents spend their daily allowance? Table 14 Spend their Daily Allowance 1. Allowance are spent on school supplies 2. Allowance are spent on foods, drinks & transport 3. Allowance are spent on online games 4. Allowance mostly goes to savings Total Frequency Percentage (f) (%) 24 35.82 33 49.25 2 2.99 8 11.94 n=67 100 The researchers asked SHS students in Tipas National High School how do they spend their daily allowance, 33 answered they spend it for foods, drinks & transport and 2 answered they spend it on playing online games. Most of the respondents spent their daily allowance on foods, drinks & transport. These are one of the basic needs of the respondents in a day. 52 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SOP 3: Why do the respondents spend their daily allowance in such manner? Table 15 Reasons of Spending According to their Daily Allowance Frequency (f) Percentage (%) 1. because it is necessity 31 46.27 2. because saving is important 11 16.42 3. because prioritizing the needs than 25 37.31 n=67 100 Reasons of Spending wants rather Total This table shows the reasons of the respondents are spending their daily allowance. The possible reasons of spending are divided into 3 reasons. The highest frequency got 31 for the reason of things they buy is necessary and the lowest frequency got 11 for the reason that saving for them is important. Based on the table 14, majority of the respondents used to buy daily allowance in foods, drinks & transport. The researchers conclude that these are necessities to them especially in a day-basis. 53 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER V SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS In this chapter, the researchers wrote the summary of findings, answers the questions in the statement of the problems as conclusions, and suggested some recommendations that can be a huge support for students of Tipas National High School. Summary of Findings Listed below are the findings discovered by the researchers. 1. Most of the respondents range family income from 10,000 pesos and below, while few of the respondent’s family income range in 25,000 to 30,000 pesos. 2. SEC D or Class D in the social classes used by the researchers got the highest rates of 25% while SEC AB got the lowest percent with 9%. Most of the respondents were in this social class. 54 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 3. The highest frequency and lowest frequency of the respondents were 38 and 2, respectively. Almost half of the respondents had an allowance costing P20-P50. 4. The highest percent rated by the respondents to have P20-P50 or having 74% while the lowest got 23% wherein the respondents have allowance P51-P100. Since students on the respondents were living near the school, the researchers think that they have only little amount of money in terms of daily allowance. Several students were only walking from their house to school. These students with high allowance can save because they don’t need to spend it for transportation. 5. The possible expenses are divided into 9 choices. The highest frequency is in foods, drinks and snack that got an f=64 and the lowest frequency is in for the consumption of cigarette and alcohol with only f=1. 6. Among respondents of Tipas National High School, 59 answered that they allowance came from their parents and 4 answered the money they spend were theirs because they were working. Conclusions Below are the conclusions drawn from the findings: 55 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 1. Majority of the Senior High School students of Tipas National High School were coming from a family earning the small and average possible amount of monthly salary for the whole family. They belonged from socioeconomic classes C and D. 2. Majority of the Senior High School students of Tipas National High school has the lowest amount of daily allowance for school expenses. 3. Majority of the Senior High School students of Tipas National High School spend their daily allowance for food, drinks, school supplies and school programs or events. 4. Majority of the Senior High School students of Tipas National High School have their daily allowance coming from their parents. 5. Grade 11 and 12 students of Tipas National High School spend their money strictly for more important school expenses. 6. Grade 11 and 12 students of Tipas National High School spend their money in such manner because they believe that it is the most appropriate way to spend money. They also believe that they can save it by right budgeting. 56 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Recommendations The following are the recommendations suggested by the researchers based from the findings and conclusions: 1. The researchers suggest that SHS students of Tipas National High School that they must continue their financial management and budgeting for the sake of their very important expenditure in school. 2. Attend seminars about business investment, financial management, business establishment, and financial literacy. 3. Ask a request to the administration office of the school to construct a learner support program relating to the financial health and development of the students. 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It involves the questions asking about your allowances, expenses, and the way you spend your money. Direction: Put a check on the blank that corresponds to your profile and financial condition. PART I. Demographic Profile Age: ___ 15 and below ___16 ___ 17 ___ 18 ___19 and above Gender: ____Male ___Female Section (Number): ____ PART II. Financial Status and Condition 1. How much is your monthly family income? ___ below 10,000 ___ 15,001-20,000 ___25,001-30,000 ___ 10,001-15,000 ___20,000-25,000 ___30,001 and above 2. What social class does you and your family belongs? (Refer to you monthly family income) ___AB: P50,251-P154,750 ___D: P5,167-P15,916.670 ___C: P15,917-P50,250 ___E: P1-P5166 3. How much is your allowance in a day? _____ 4. How much now is your savings since June 2016? ____ 5. From your daily allowance, how much money do you spend in 1 day? ____________ 61 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 6. Where do you spend your allowance? (you can check more than once) ____ transport fare ____ food, drinks, and snack ____ school projects, assignments, and materials ____ school programs and events ____ work immersion/OJT fees ____ cigarette and alcohol ____ malling/shopping ____ dating ____ others (Pls. specify) ______________________________ 7. Where is your allowance coming from? (you can check more than once) _____my parents _____ Others (Pls. specify)___ _____my other relatives __________________ _____my work 8. If you are a working student, how much money do you earn? _________ in one _________ PART III. Q and A. Financial Management 1. How do you spend your daily allowance? 2. Why do you spend your allowance like that? 62 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Division of Taguig City and Pateros Tipas National High School Palingon, Tipas, Taguig City SURVEY CONSENT LETTER Date: _________ TO THE ADVISER: Greetings! We are the Grade 12 students of Tipas National High School who are currently conducting a quantitative research entitled: “A DescriptiveQuantitative Study on the Financial Status of the Senior High Students in Tipas National High school AY 2017-2018: Basis for the Creation of a Learner Support Program” This letter is submitted to you so we can get your consent for an evaluation needed for our research. With your permission, we will ask you to fill up and answer a survey questionnaire and a few Q and A related to the title mentioned above, which was the topic of our study. It will only take few minutes for the assessment and observations of the group in the most comfortable time and place you want. The purpose of our study is: to describe the financial status of senior high school students in Tipas NHS. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and is not associated with any institution and will not affect you or your rights in any way. You may quit this interview at any time. The data collection period for this study is within the month of October. There are minimal risks involved; this research will be used for compliance only on our subject Practical Research II for this semester AY 20172018. To protect your confidentiality, your name will not appear on the survey (if you want to), we will only use the data and results from the assessment and observation, without including your name. The information you release will not be shared with anyone other than us and our thesis adviser MR. KOBEY C. GABRIEL of Tipas NHS. If you have questions to us you may contact us at 63 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ____________. Any reference to you will be by pseudonym, including any direct quotes from our respondents. There are no foreseen direct benefits to you regarding the participation in this study beyond the general knowledge that you are assisting in furthering the knowledge related to this research topic, and assisting the researcher in completing the requirements of our subject. There is no compensation associated with participation in this study. This letter will serve as a consent form for your participation and will be kept in our personal locked file after the completion of this study. This document acknowledges you understand of your rights as a participant in this study, which the researchers have explained to you prior to signing this document. Sincerely, THE RESEARCHERS ______________________________ SIGNATURE OVER PRINTED NAME RESPONDENT NOTED BY: MR. KOBEY C. GABRIEL THESIS ADVISER Date: _______________________________ Contacts: ____________________________ ____________________________________ 64 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Maica Gale BengsonQuinacman 196 E. Quiogue St. Aguho Pateros, Metro Manila maicagale@yahoo.com Educational Background Elementary Palamis Elementary School Palamis, Alaminos City, Pangasinan Batch 2011-2012 Secondary Junior High School Alaminos City National High School San Jose Drive, Alaminos City, Pangasinan Batch 2015-2016 Senior High School Tipas National High School Palingon, TipasTaguig City Batch 2017- present Awards ElementaryBest in English Grade 1 top 1 student Grade 2 top 3 student Grade 3-6 top 9 Grade 6 Best in Radio Broadcast Skills and Abilities Communicate well in English and Filipino Loves to read books and magazines Good in acting, singing and dancing Proficient in using Microsoft Application Crafty Loves to play Basketball, Badminton and Running Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth : : : : 65 17 Single August 22, 1999 Mangatarem,Pangasinan TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation Father’s name Occupation : : : : : : : 66 Jehovah’s Witnesses Filipino Tagalog, English, Iloco Angelica B. Quinacman Teacher Francisco B. Quinacman Self-employed TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Abigail Pagunuran Lorenzo Purok 2 #206 San Pedro Street PalingonTipasTaguig City 09463044128 lorenzo_abigail17@yahoo.com Education Background Elementary Batch 2011-2012 Secondary Junior High School Batch 2015-2016 Senior High School Tipas Elementary School PalingonTipas, Taguig City Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2016-present Awards Grade 8 top 5 certificate award 2013 Grade 9 top 3 medal award 2014 Grade 10 top 9 certificate award 2015 Skills and Abilities Love to cook, reading books, listening to music, and cleaning something Personal Background Age : 17 Status : Single Date of birth : October 17, 1999 Place of birth : Muntinlupa City Religion : Roman Catholic Nationality : Filipino Language/Dialects : Tagalog &English Mother’s name : Clara Pagunuran Occupation : Housewife Father’s name : Ariel Lorenzo Occupation : Helper 67 TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Franz Gabriel A. Navalta #36 Catleya St. Brgy. NapindanSamama II, Taguig City Education Background Elementary St. Uriel Academy of Taguig City Batch 2011-2012 Secondary Junior High School Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2015-2016 Senior High School Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2016-present Skills and Abilities Playing Basketball Worker Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation Father’s name Occupation : : : : : : : : : : : 68 20 Single October 30, 1997 Pasig City Roman Catholic Filipino Tagalog &English Jasmine A. Navalta Deceased Richard M. Navalta Electrician TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Princess Joy Guisihan Block 23 Levi Mariano St. PalingonTipas, Taguig City princessguisihan@yahoo.com Education Background Elementary Secondary Junior High School Senior High School Tipas Elementary School Batch 2011-2012 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2015-2016 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2016-present Awards Grade 9- Top 7 Grade 11- Top 2 Grade 12- Best in DRRR Skills and Abilities Cooking Dancing Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation Father’s name Occupation : : : : : : : : : : : 69 17 Single March 27, 2000 Taguig City Roman Catholic Filipino Tagalog, English Jenifer Guisihan Housewife Ferdinand Gedenaria Tricycle Driver TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Juluis V. Sibunga 484 Magsalinst.PalingonTipasTaguig City juluis.sibunga07@yahoo.com Education Background Elementary Secondary Junior High School Senior High School Tipas Elementary School Batch 2011-2012 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2015-2016 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2016-present Awards Grade 8 top 6 student Grade 9 top 6 student Skills and Abilities Play instrument Love to cook Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation Father’s name Occupation : : : : : : : : : : : 70 18 Single March 7, 1999 Upper Bicutan Church of Chrish Filipino Tagalog and English Josie M. Villaueva Assistant Nurse Noli C.Sibunga None TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MhaydelBarabadSeguido Purok 5 Sto. Tomas Gk Village NapindanTaguig City 09098374517 Mhaydel_seguido@yahoo.com Educational Background Elementary Napindan Elementary School NapindanTaguig City Batch 2011-2012 Secondary Junior High School Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2015-2016 Senior High School Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2016-present Skills and Abilities Playing badminton Good in singing Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation Father’s name Occupation : : : : : : : : : : : 71 16 Single October 24, 2000 Makati City Roman Catholic Filipino Tagalog & English MaridelSeguido Janitress MelchorSeguido Construction Worker TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Andy Bitayo IbayoTipasTaguig City Educational Background Elementary Secondary Junior High School Senior High School Tipas Elementary School PalingonTipas, Taguig City Batch 2011-2012 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2015-2016 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2017-present Skills and Abilities Loves to play basketball Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation Father’s name Occupation : : : : : : : : : : : 72 17 Single March 29, 2000 Makati City Roman Catholic Filipino Tagalog & English Flora Bitayo Housewife Antonio Bitayo Baker TIPAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Ferdinand Roque 376 Col Stacio St. PalingonTipas, Taguig City roquemakoy@gmail.com Educational Background Elementary Secondary Junior High School Senior High School Tipas Elementary School PalingonTipas, Taguig City Batch 2011-2012 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2015-2016 Tipas National High School PalingonTipasTaguig City Batch 2017-present Skills and Abilities Playing Basketball and Chess Personal Background Age Status Date of birth Place of birth Religion Nationality Language/Dialects Mother’s name Occupation : : : : : : : : : 73 18 Single February 14, 1999 Taguig City Roman Catholic Filipino Tagalog & English EmelitaRoque Housewife