ADDRESSING CLASSROOM ABSENTEEISM AMONG

IDENTIFIED GRADE 10 STUDENTS OF LAUREANO

SALUSOD NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH
PROJECT LOVE

( LISTENING, OVERSEEING, VISITING , AND

EVALUATING)

An Action Research

Conducted By

REYNOLD S. TANLANGIT, Ed.D. -PROPONENT

Schools Division of Zamboanga del Sur

District of Dimataling
Laureano Salusod National High School

November 2022
 I. Context and Rationale

Students learn best when they actively participate in the learning

process , when they are engaged with the ability to achieve commendable
performance at school.

Effective teaching is the ability to produce gains on student

achievement scores , taking account of a baseline measure of student’s prior
attainment and other characteristics of students intake , the effect is identified
in relation to student’s progress measured by later attainment.
(https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/the-impact-of-a-learning-
management-system-on-student-evaluation-of-teaching/47318).

With this principles of learning process mentioned, the problems of

students learning habits will be addressed. One of these concerns is
absenteeism or the irregularity of attending classes at school.

Furthermore , some of the ways on addressing to absenteeism,

namely punitive plans, parental involvement: programs, student-centered
agreements, counseling approaches, community agency programs, and
nontraditional methods like-open campuses or special classes . (Author /RN,
James Mervilde)

Student absenteeism - is one of the fundamental concerns for

secondary- school educators. Moreover , absenteeism, in distinguishing
student-level causes, such as personal characteristics or backgrounds, lion
school- and societal-level causes like school organization, teacher skills, peer
pressure, or community' values. Some of the effects of"absenteeism show that
it hurts both students academic achievement and -the school, where it can
cause. the loss and morale problems. (De Leonibus:2). (www.google.com.ph)
 However, the solutions with this fundamental concern: suggested yield
sized results, depending upon the specific circumstances and the educational
philosophy used, and the frequency of courage for pursuing ones’ dreams to
achieve.

Various reasons along the way to be taken into considerations of why

this concern should be solved is for us to be more aware and more awakened
in performing the task of teaching profession, bearing the torch of success for
the challenging community. As Dr. Jose Rizal stated that, ‘’ Youth is the hope
of the motherland’’ , the hope to continue in generating the values of good
character for brighter tomorrow and this will not be possible unless a concern
like this study will be given immediate response.

II. Action Research Questions

The researcher’s objective is to determine the extent of impact brought

about by the innovation , Project LOVE on the perceived level of absenteeism
manifested by the identified Grade 10 students of Laureano Salusod National
High School.

1. What is the level of absenteeism manifested by the identified Grade 10

students before the intervention , Project LOVE?
2. What is the level of absenteeism manifested by the identified Grade 10
students after the intervention , Project LOVE?
3. Is there a significant difference between the absenteeism manifested by
the identified Grade 10 students before and after the intervention ,
Project LOVE?

III. Proposed Innovation , Intervention, and Strategy

 School heads, principals , TIC’s and other designation of school
leaders must consistently initiate productive rooms for learning improvements
and convenient areas for teaching disciplines so identified Grade 10 students
will be able to capacitate themselves to address concerns , issues and
challenges they may encounter in their learning environment so that by one
way or another, they will become gradually effective and efficient in classroom
tasks and activities designated for them to perform in the world of face to face
classes.

With the power of optimism, the researcher – proponent created an

intervention entitled Project LOVE or short for Listening, Overseeing, Visiting
and Evaluating.

The objective of Project LOVE is to make a regular monitoring of best

practices for learning habits and sustaining a constant mentoring of school
heads to teachers , and providing maximum affirmation for parents and
students in terms of evident effort and quality time ,by about 80% and by
improving an avenue for Grade 10 students to work together and share
thoughts, opinions and suggestions among themselves through listening one
another by feedbacking during PTA Conference, Overseeing initiatives by
creating group chats, messenger accounts and facebook page, conducting
quarterly Home Visitations, and creating evaluable activities to affirm and
appreciate their learning progress.

The materials or resources needed are a facebook accounts,

communication letter and PTA Conference letter as a receipt of their
attendance, minutes of the meeting, and memorandum of agreement, pictures
and letter permission from the approval of the school principal.

Home Visitation forms and pictorials during the visit should be

prepared and letter approval from the principal. The administrative leadership
must be open at all times for consultations and resources to address the indire
needs for total evaluable activities that is fun, appreciative and comfortable
atmosphere for all inorder to attain the success of learning habits.

LAC sessions are also welcoming for the road of improvements. This is
the time for sharing and feedbacking among teachers and school heads. This
will be conducted by comprising such as;

1. Group Name
2. LAC Leader
3. LAC Secretary
4. LAC Documenter
5. Agenda
6. Number of Attendance
7. A summary of recommendations or resolutions
8. Record keeping of the minutes of the meeting
9. Pictorials for MOV( Mode of Verifications)

To be accurate, the school heads should check and collect the LAC

Reports and give follow-up for the revision of the submitted outputs.

Here are the steps to do during pre-implementation,

1. The teacher will make a request letter addressing to the school head for the

approval of the proposed activity and the school head will ask permission from

the Public Schools District Supervisor to conduct the said innovation,

presenting the action research plan and matrix.

2. The teacher will ask a short conference with the school head for the

preparation in conducting an orientation among teachers virtually or through

cluster face-to-face regarding the implementation of the said innovation.

3. The teacher will secure the communication letter and ask the school head

for the approval to conduct Homeroom PTA Conference and remind all

students to inform their parents to bring the communication letter as a receipt

of their attendance.

4. The teacher will create group chats and encourage the students to have

their own facebook or messenger accounts to be added in group chats.

5. The teacher will ask the school head for the validation of the home visitation

forms, students record forms , and make revisions if needed, and after

consolidating all the suggestions and corrections, print all the needed forms,

and afterwards, secure letter request to be approved by the school head.

6. The teacher will then make a proposed evaluable and comprehensive plan to

assess the progress of the provided interventions and make all the relevant

strategies to showcase their ability to learn ,and create affirmative activities

that the school world is for all, free and enjoyable.

For the implementation phase,

1.The teacher will prepare the room of the activities with conducive learning

environment.

2.The teacher will set himself prepared, cool and relax to secure self confidence

and mastery of the organized plans.

3.The teacher will retrieve the approved communication letters and distribute

to the students.
4.The teacher must follow-up the students for the communication letters

provided in the group chats that the communication letter should be returned

back to the teacher as a receipt of their attendance.

5.The teacher will now check and make an inventory list if all the needed home

visitation forms are intact and organized.

6.The teacher will then make a preparation lists for the recognition program at

all cause that motivates , appreciates and inspires the totality of well-being of

the students.

Here are the steps for post-implementation:

1.The teacher will now evaluate if the prepared plans are thoroughly followed,

and if the expected outcomes are met..

2. The teacher must not forget to sign the home visitation forms and ask for

the principal’s signature for the approval.

3.The teacher will check the attendance of the parents, collect the prepared

minutes from the secretary, retrieve the communication letter as an

attendance receipt, and have a pictorials and ask the school principal and PTA

President’s signature to be evidently reflected in the minutes.

4.The teacher will print the screenshots of the groupchat activities, and

communications in personal messages , and even facebook page as an evident

of consistent overseeing towards the learning attendance of the students.

5.The teacher will then make an assessment and evaluations what activities

are necessary to be pursued and what activities are to be deferred.

6.The school head will gather feedback to use to improve or enhance the

improvement or enhancement of the newly invented tool and create a

consistency plan.

7. It is also the role of the proponent to coordinate with the school heads from

other secondary schools.

IV. Action Research Methods

A. Participants and other sources of data and information

The study participants shall be the identified Grade 10 students from

Laureano Salusod National High School , Kagawasan Dimataling Zamboanga

del Sur and the data were officially taken from the office of the guidance

counselor. These students shall be selected as the subject of the study because

of their low turnout of regular attendance resulting their low academic

performance during the First Quarter.

The researcher chose the cluster sampling strategy to reduce the number

of participants while maintaining an adequate level of statistical power. The

distribution of respondents is as follows:

Table 1. Distribution of Respondents

Leadership positions Number

Boys 29

Girls 20

Total 49
B. Data Collection

The researchers situate the study within the framework of a pre-

experimental research design, namely the one-group pretest-posttest design.

This is a pre-experimental design in which a single case is observed twice

before and after. Additionally, it states that when no control or comparison

group is used, changes in the outcome of interest are believed to affect the

intervention or treatment. Researchers will use the survey instrument as a

numerical rating scale made by the proponent subject for validity and

reliability testing.

C. Plan for Data Analysis

The researchers will use different data analysis methods, including

descriptive statistics and tests of significance.

According to the table below, to answer questions number 1 and 2,

means shall be used and categorized.

To determine the significant difference before and after the treatment,

researchers shall use the dependent sample t-test. Therefore, researchers shall

also use statistical tools such as mean, difference, degrees of freedom,

standard deviation, and t- statistics.

V. RESEARCH WORK PLAN AND TIMELINE

The action research work plan and timelines are shown below during this

study's pre-implementation, implementation, and post-implementation phases.

Table 3. Plan of Action
Objectives Strategies/ Time Persons Output Success
Frame Involved Indicator
Activities

Pre-Implementation Phase

Secure Securing 2nd week Researcher Letter of Approved

permission permission of permission letter of
to conduct to conduct Novemb School permission
the study the study er 2022 Head

Draft a Drafting a 2nd week Researcher Research The

researcher researcher- of instrument research
-made made tool to Novemb Panel of validation instrument
instrumen be validated er 2022 experts result was
t to be by experts validated
validated and
by experts obtained

Submit Administer 3rd week Researcher Established The

the tool for the of reliability research
the instrument Novemb index of the instrument
reliability to a group of er 2022 instrument obtained a
test participants Sample high-
to obtain the participant reliability
reliability of s index
the
instrument

Reproduce Reproducing 3rd week Researcher Reproduced Researcher-

the the of researcher- made
instrumen researcher- Novemb made instrument
t made er 2022 questionnair
questionnair e
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Implementation Phase

Conduct Conducting 4th week Researcher An Pre-

pre- the pre- of accomplishe assessment
assessmen assessment Novemb Students d conducted
t to to identify er 2022 researcher-
identify participants made
participant instrument
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Gather, Gathering, 4th week Researcher Recorded Pretest

record, recording, of data result was
and and Novemb collected
interpret analyzing er 2022 and
the data the data recorded

Prepare or Preparing or 2nd week Researcher Intervention Prepared

obtain obtaining of materials intervention
interventio intervention Decemb materials
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VII. Cost Estimates

Shown below are the estimated expenses throughout this action research.

Table 2
Cost Estimates for Supplies and Materials
Unit
Unit Quantity Description Amount
Cost
ream 2 Short Bond paper 170 340
ream 2 A4 Bond paper 225 450
bottle 1 Ink L3110 black 280 280
TOTAL 1070

Table 3
Cost Estimate for Travel expenses for the Submission of Action Research
Proposal to the Division
Destination Transportation Amount
Purpose of
School to Division Office Tricycle 100
Travel
Division Office to Schools Tricycle 100
TOTAL 200

Table 4
Cost Estimates for Other Expenses
Unit
Unit Quantity Description Amount
Cost
Bound 1 Binding 350 350
Internet and Communication Load
Person 18 100 1800
Allowance
Total 2150

Table 5
Summary of Expenses
Description Amount
A. Supplies and Material   P1, 070.00
B. Travel Expenses
        B.1  Submission of Action          200.00
Research Proposal to the Division
 C. Other Expenses       2, 150.00
Grand Total   3, 420.00
PLANS FOR DISSEMINATION AND UTILIZATION

School administrators should take note and consider of the findings. It

will be put to good use in the development of instructional methods, the

creation of curriculum, and the coordination of school governance and

administration. As a result, it should only be shared with the following people:

A. Participate research conferences, forums, and policy forums at the

division or district level to share and discuss research findings and

recommendations. Our peers in academics can assist us in getting our

students' work peer-reviewed.

B. Publishing research papers and bulletins are a great way to spread the

word about technology integration and training among educators. As a

result, it will benefit children's education and development.

C. Make sure the SIP and AIP have enough money allocated to the project.

D. We can participate in discussions in LAC sessions or In-Service Training.

A different sort of in-service training may allow us to assist other schools in

improving their grading methods by sharing our expertise.

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Submitted by: REYNOLD S. TANLANGIT, Ed.D.

Teacher III
 SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

This survey instrument is intended to determine the level of the manifested

abseintism of grade 10 students , before and after Project LOVE was
implemented.
Name : ___________________________ ( Option)
Instruction: Check the column that is most appropriate to your response. Refer
your answers to the table below;

5 Highly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Highly Disagree

Indicators 5 4 3 2 1
1. I am affected with
my teachers’
leadership styles
and attitudes.
2. I don’t have
facebook account.
3. I am destructed with
my peer pressures.
4. I am not staying
with my parents and
family at home.
5. My family is not
financially stable.
6. Our house is too
far towards the
 school I am
enrolling.
7. I am a self-
supporting or
working student.
8. I am married.
9. I am not physically,
and emotionally
well.
10. Our classroom
is conducive to
learning.
11. I am afraid of my
teachers .
12. I am afraid of my
classmates.
13. I don’t have
cellphone.
14. I need
inspirations in my
studies.
15. I need parental
guidance and
spiritual motivation
in my studies.

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