Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IX Zamboanga Peninsula
Schools Division of Zamboanga del Norte
Liloy National High School
Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte
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THE USE OF QUICK RESPONSE CODE SYSTEM AMONG THE STUDENTS

OF LILOY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: ITS EFFECTS TO THEIR SAFETY

S.Y. 2019-2020

A Quantitative Research Paper

Presented to the Faculty of Liloy National High School

Liloy, Zamboanga Del Norte

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements In

Research 2

Research Teacher:

JEAN MAY PAPON

Researchers:
Fabillar, Kent Lloyd C.
Pintac, Jeremy
Sarona, John Lloyd
Pacaro, James
Retutas, Reymark
Magsayo, Darlyn
 Republic of the Philippines
Liloy National High School
Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte

APPROVAL SHEET

In partial fulfilment of the requirements in research II, entitled “The Use of

Quick Response Code System among the Students of Liloy National high School: Its
Effects to their Safety” has been examined and is recommended for proposal.

JEAN MAY G. PAPON

Research Teacher

This research study entitled “The Use of Quick Response Code System among
the Students of Liloy National high School: Its Effects to their Safety” are prepared
by Kent Lloyd Fabillar, Jeremy Pintac, John Lloyd Sarona, James Pacaro, Reymark
Retutas, Darlyn Magsayo and has been reviewed and approved by the Research Teacher.

JEAN MAY G. PAPON

Research Teacher

FERNANDO O. MALAZARTE
School Principal III
TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

Title page………………………………………………………………… i

Approval Sheet…………………………………………………………... ii

Table of Contents………………………………………………………… iii

CHAPTER

I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE …………………. 1

Background of the Study……………………………....... 1

Statement of the Problem……………………………….. 2

Hypothesis………………………………………………. 2

Conceptual Framework…………………………………. 3

Significance of the Study……………………………….. 3

Scope and Limitations of the Study…..………………… 4

Operational Definition of Terms………………………... 4

II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Related Foreign Literature

Related Local Literature

III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY……………………. 14

Research Method………………………………………. 14

Research Setting……………………………………….. 14

Sampling Design………………………………………. 16

Respondents of the Study ……………………………... 16

Research Instrument ……………………………….….. 17

Validating the Instrument……………………………… 17

Data Gathering Procedure…………………………....... 17

 CHAPTER I
The Problem and Its Scope

Background of the Study

A QR is short for Quick Response, a digital image that can be scanned without the

beam of light needed to scan barcodes at the super market. It’s used in advertising and

marketing for smartphone users. You may have seen QR codes on flyers, brochures and

even cereal boxes. They are often accompanied with a message that says, “For more

information scan this code.” Thy can be scanned using one of the many free QR scanner

apps available for smartphones and tablets. When you scan the code, you will be taken

directly to a website. QR codes can read quickly by a smartphone or tablet. QR codes are

square barcodes (two-dimensional) that were first developed in Japan. Like any barcode, a

QR code is nothing more than a way to store information in a machine-readable optical

label. The QR code was invented in 1994 by the Japanese automotive company Denso

Wave. QR code were originally invented to help track inventory on production lines and

in warehouses, while they are still being used for that, they were also used in many other

ways. In order to use QR Code, you must have a QR Code reader/scanning app.

The QR code has one of the most-used types of two-dimensional code. They are

used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it to your mobile phone.

The QR code also helps to facilitate student engagement and ensure that they have access

to the right material. With the huge number of websites that are not child friendly, use QR

codes prevents accidents where students access inappropriate sites.

Statement of the Problem
The study will determine the effectiveness of QR code system in the students of Liloy

National high School, this year 2019-2020.

This study will answer the following questions.

1. What is the profile of the students in terms of?

1.1 Gender;

1.2 Age; and

1.3 Year level?

2. What are the uses of using QR codes in the students of Liloy National High

School?

3. What are the effects of using QR codes in the students of Liloy National High

School?

Hypothesis

HO1 There is no significant relationship between the uses of quick response

identification code system among the students of Liloy National high School and the

personal profile of the respondents.

HO2 There is no significant relationship between the uses of quick response

identification code system among the students of Liloy National high School and effects to

their safety in using quick response identification code.

Conceptual Framework

Independent variable Dependent Variable

Quick Response It’s Effect to the

Code Safety of the
Students

Gender;
Age; and
Year Level

Intervening Variables

Figure 1 Schematic Diagram of the Study

Significance of the Study

The significance of these study is to test the use and effectiveness of QR codes in

Liloy National High School, these are the following implications to be considered.

 Students

For the students, it will serve as their security, for their identification, attendance

and etc.
  Parents

In this study may benefit the parents in checking the states of their sibling/s

presence in school.

 Future Researchers

The future researchers are the proponents that can make use of this research as

their reference for these study.

Scope and Limitations of the Study

The study id focused on the uses quick response code and its effects to the safety

among the students of Liloy National High School.

Further, the personal information needed for the study were gender, age and year

level.

Finally, this study will be conducted at Liloy National High School, Liloy

Zamboanga del Norte this year 2019-2020.

Operational Definition of Terms

Security – the state of being protected or safe from harm

Identification – a document, card, etc., that has your name and other information

about you and that often includes your photograph

Monitoring – to watch, observe listen to, or check (something) for a special

purpose over a period of time.

 CHAPTER II
Review of Related Studies and Literature
This chapter deals with the literature and the studies related to the present

investigation. These studies include foreign and (local) researchers. Few studies are

conducted with the direct and indirect relations with the specific problems of the study.

Foreign Literature
QR (Quick Response) code scanning allows the user to obtain in-depth

information about the scanned item. Apps used for scanning QR codes can be found on

nearly all smart phone devices. Travelers who have smart phone, equipped with the correct

reader software, can easily access QR coded information (text, photo, video, web page,

etc.) when it is available. Travelers can scan QR coded galleries, places, vineyards or

monuments when they are visiting and reach the detailed information without using even

a travel guide. The aim of this study is to explore the QR code usage opportunities in

tourism sector in the Information Age. According to“Usage of QR Code in Tourism

Industry”

According to Michael Angelo C. Maleriado and Joseph R. Carreon (2019) “The

Features of Quick Response (QR) Code as an Attendance Monitoring System: Its

Acceptability and Implications to the Classroom” quick response code monitoring

system is an environment-friendly, cost-effective and easier access to data. This

monitoring system would also provide teachers with a proper motivational intervention

for students who are not always present at school. It would be beneficial to the school

personnel in adapting the QR code electronic-based monitoring system that is essential

in simplifying the checking of attendance more efficient and fast that has easy access to
QR code readers. The monitoring system using QR code evidence-based practice will be

an indicator of the 21st-century skill competitive advantage. Moreover, this study would

be helpful to schools in building motivation that will improve students’ presence. Hence,

this would add excitement to come to class, to have their codes scanned and it will also

give students an idea that there are limitless possibilities in the use of technology while

they are having fun.

According to the reference “Security of QR Codes” The 2-dimensional barcodes

known as QR (Quick Response) Codes are increasing their popularity as they appear in

more places in the urban environment. QR Codes can be considered as physical hyper-

links that give the ability to users to access, through their mobile devices that are able to

scan QR Codes, additional information located in a web-page. Apart from marketing, QR

Codes have been also adopted in different areas such as the on-line payments. This

development along with the trend that some of the users may follow which indicates to

scan unauthenticated data, such as QR Codes located in public places, motivated us to

investigate how QR Codes can be used as an attack vector. We first developed an

implementation which attempts to bruteforce QR Codes by attacking directly the modules,

aiming to retrieve an alternated URL upon scanning the QR Code and after having applied

the module changes. Our implementation showed us that such an attack is unfeasible in a

real attack scenario. However, the second approach that we followed, in which we attacked

the binary representation of the encoded string, we managed to produce the desired result.

Furthermore, we conducted an empirical study aiming to identify the users’ level of

security awareness concerning the security issues related to QR Codes. The on-line survey

that was accessible through our QR Code stickers, was our mean of interaction with the
users. We deployed our stickers in 4 European cities (Vienna, Helsinki, Athens and Paris)

and we managed to attract 273 individuals that scanned and visited our web pages. Out of

these visitors, 83 participants completed our online survey. The results collected indicate

that users are motivated mainly by their curiosity and they have serious lack of knowledge

on the potential threats and the ways to protect themselves.

According to “Development of Attendance Management System using Biometrics

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering”, Lagos State University, Epe

Campus, Nigeria In this paper, the development of an attendance management system

using biometrics is proposed. Managing student attendance during lecture periods has

become a difficult challenge. The ability to compute the attendance percentage becomes a

major task as manual computation produces errors, and also wastes a lot of time. For the

stated reason, an efficient attendance management system using biometrics is designed.

This system takes attendance electronically with the help of a finger print device and the

records of the attendance are stored in a database. Attendance is marked after student

identification. For student identification, a biometric(fingerprint) identification based

system is used. This process however, eliminates the need for stationary materials and

personnel for the keeping of records. Eighty candidates were used to test the system and

success rate of 94% was recorded. The manual attendance system average execution time

for eighty students was 17.83 seconds while it was 3.79 seconds for the automatic

attendance management system using biometrics. The results showed improved

performance over manual attendance management system. Attendance is marked after

student identification attendance in class. In developing countries, a minimum percentage

of class attendance is required in most institutions and this policy has not been adhered to,
because of the various challenges the present method of taking attendance presents. This

traditional method involves the use of sheets of paper or books in taking student attendance.

This method could easily allow for impersonation and the attendance sheet could be stolen

or lost. Taking of attendance is time consuming and it is difficult to ascertain the number

of students that have made the minimum percentage and thus eligible for exam. Thus, there

is a need for a system that would eliminate all of these trouble spots. An automatic

attendance management system using biometrics would provide the needed solution. An

attendance management system is software developed for daily student attendance in

schools and institutions. It facilitates access to the attendance of a particular student in a

particular class. This system will also help in generating reports and evaluating the

attendance eligibility of a student.Rather than signing an attendance sheet, individuals will

pass their thumb over the fingerprint scanner, the finger print is compared against a list of

pre-registered users, and once a match is made, the individual will be registered as having

attended that lecture. The paper discusses related works in the problem domain; highlights

the general overview of the proposed system; details design considerations of the system,

both at the hardware and software level; discusses the operation and how the system was

tested in conformity to system design and functional objectives; concludes the observations

made; and makes recommendations for future improvement.

Related Local Studies

According to the reference “AN AUTOMATED INVENTORY SYSTEM USING

QUICK RESPONSE (QR) CODE AND BARCODE FOR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE PHILIPPINES” QR code or a Quick Response code is

a two-dimensional matrix code that has can hold data. It has a larger set of machine
readable codes as compared to the 1-dimensional barcode and it can hold more data because

it uses both the horizontal and vertical axis. It is widely used in different fields such as

manufacturing and mobile marketing. QR codes has a more advanced error correction and

it is more reliable and has a faster speed than other codes. 1d codes were improved in such

a way that they can hold more information but this resulted to adding more bars/lines to

the barcode and resulted to a barcode that has a larger area, and become more complicated

to read by scanners. Due to this, demand grew for a code that can hold more information

in the least space. 2 dimensional codes like the QR code which can hold more information

than the traditional 1d code were produced. In this way, the QR code gained popularity and

became widely accepted and used. The problem with the large barcode area was solved by

placing information on both vertical and horizontal parts of the code. This resulted to an

area that has more data density and a smaller area space.
 CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the methodology employed in conducting this research

study. It includes the research method, research setting, sampling design, respondents of

the study, research instrument, validating the instrument and data gathering procedure.

Research Method

The descriptive-correlation method was used in the study. Since this study

measured data that already exists and the number of respondents is not large, the

descriptive-correlation method of studies is suitable for these research as the purpose of

these study is the use of QR codes and its effects to the safety among the students in

Liloy National High School.

Research Setting

The research was conducted at Liloy National High School, with its address at

Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte located in National Highway with the coordinates of

8°7′21″N 122°40′20″E. The school type is Public. It was founded on July 1, 1974 and

nationalized on July 1987. It was a dream come true for the Liloyans to have a public

high school. It was established on July 1, 1974 at the D.E. defunct,

Baybay, Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte. During the first year of operation the total population

was 135 first year and 54 second year students with a total of 189, and four teachers. It

was on the second year of operation that the school have offered a complete high

school curriculum now with 840 students with 12 teachers under the supervision of the
school principal of Baybay Central School. A TIC was assigned later on to manage and

supervise the school, students and teachers. In September 1979, it was converted to Liloy

Municipal High School.

It was on July 1987 when the school was converted and nationalized latter called

Liloy National High School and at the same time transferred to the uptown area of the

town which is nearer to the Municipal Hall. These are all through the efforts of the local

officials who also have bought the school site having an area of 40,000 sq. meters in the

amount of P40,000, registered under the name of the Department of Education. At

present, the total population of the school has gone up to 2,580 students with more than

80 regular permanent teachers, 1 senior bookkeeper and 1 school clerk with permanent

status as reflected in the PSIPOP, managed and supervised by a full pledge High School

principal. Another piece of land which is adjacent to our school site was bought by the

PTCA with an area of 1,071.77 sq. meters in the amount of P 38,000. Liloy National

High School has a total of 12 buildings with a 2-story ESF building which serves as the

administration building as well.

Figure 2 Location of the Liloy National High School

Sampling Design

Probability Sampling Approaches will be used of these study. The sampling

method will be the Simple Random Sampling techniques. The researchers will select

random participants who would be able to contribute to the study.

Respondents of the Study

The researchers selected forty-eight (48) students of Liloy National High School.

Table 1

Year Level Total Population Actual Respondents

Grade 7 580 4

Grade 8 749 6

Grade 9 687 6

Grade 10 534 9

Grade 11 412 10

Grade 12 457 13

Total 3,419 48

Table 1 shows the different year levels of Liloy National High School, the total

population and the actual number of respondents that populated the study. The Liloy
National High School has the total population of 3,419 in the year 2019-2020. The actual

number of respondents used in the study are 48. 4 from grade 7, 6 from grade 8, 6 from

grade 9, 9 from grade 10, 10 for grade 11, 13 for grade 12.

Research Instrument

The researchers utilized a questionnaire in order to get the profile of the

respondents. The said instrument was composed of two parts. Part I is consist of

questions relative to the use of quick response code system and lastly, part II is consist of

the effects of the quick response code system.

Validating the Instrument

The questionnaire prepared by the researchers was subjected for validation,

recommendation and modifications by the persons whom the researchers sought for

guidance relative to the fulfillment of this study. The final, modified, validated and

corrected questionnaire was then administered by the respondents of this study.

Data Gathering Procedure

After validation of the questionnaire the researchers commenced distribution of

questionnaires and conducted a thorough survey among the respondents to determine the

veracity of their answers.