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Chapter 2

METHODS

Presented in this chapter are the research design, the subject and

respondents, the instrument, the data gathering procedure, and the statistical

treatment of the data.

RESEARCH DESIGN

A Descriptive-Correlation Method of research was employed in this study.

It is a design to estimate the proficiency to which different variables are related to

one another in the population or sample of interest. (Humol, 2008)

The term descriptive implies the attempt to describe the extent of revised

curriculum and academic performance of the students. In correlation research, it

involves collecting data to determine relationships between two variables.

This design was adopted since the main problem of the study is to identify

if there is a significant relationship between the implementation of revised

curriculum and the academic performance of BSN2 students of St. Marys

College.

Research Subject

The subjects of this study were the BSN2 students who were evaluated by

their clinical instructors in their clinical performances during their clinical

exposures. The respondents of the study were the first year nursing students of

St. Marys College, Tagum City. They belong to different sections. Section A has

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39 students; section B has 41 students, with a total of 80 students. They were

chosen on the basis of stratified random sampling. This sampling technique was

used in order to get the exact representation of respondents of this study.

Using the Slovins Formula, a sample of 67 student-respondents were

taken. Table 1 shows the sample size of the population and the distribution of

respondents by gender and section using stratified random sampling.

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Table 1

Distribution of Student-Respondents

Section

POPULATION SAMPLE

Gender

Male Female

TOTAL

Gender

Male FemaleTOTAL

A 9 30 39 35

B 7 34 41 37

TOTAL 16 64 80 15 55 67

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Research Instrument

The research instrument used in gathering the data was a researcher-

made questionnaire using a Likert scale. The questionnaire was made brief but

concise for easy understanding of the respondents. Each indicator under the

independent variable contains five (5) questions.

The questionnaire was checked by the research director and went through

final checking and validation for purpose of content-validity. The corrections and

suggestions were incorporated in the final draft of the questionnaire.

On another view, the academic performance of the second year nursing

students was acquired through their RLE grade composing of two categories: the

skills, knowledge and attitude in the skills laboratory during return

demonstrations.

The respondents level of perception were rated using the following scale:

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Parameter Limit Descriptive Equivalent

4.50 5.00 Always

3.50 4.49 Often

2.50 3.49 Sometimes

1.50 2.49 Seldom

1.00 1.49 Never

The 5-scale scoring has the following qualitative descriptions:

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5 Always This means that the indicator embodied in the item was very

much evident or always observed.

4 Often This means that the indicator embodied in the item was

oftenly evident or observed.

3 Sometimes This means that the indicator embodied in the item was very

much relatively evident in most cases.

2 Seldom This means that the indicator embodied in the item was

acknowledged to be present but only slightly felt.

1 Never This means that the indicator embodied in the item was

almost non-evident.

Data Gathering Procedure

The researchers undertook the following procedures in order to gather

data needed for the study:

The permission was sought from the School President of St. Marys

College, Tagum City. Upon the approval of the School President, the researchers

forwarded it to the Program Head of the Nursing Department. Then, a week after

the approval was the administration of the questionnaires to the student-

respondent to the different sections of the first year student nurses. It was done

personally by the researchers. Instructions were given to ensure that the

questions would be answered honestly, clearly, and completely. Retrieval of the

questionnaires was done immediately after the administration. The researchers

then collated and tabulated all responses given by the respondents. Responses

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were tabulated in an excel files and was submitted to the statistician for statistical

treatment and analyses to answer the problems raised in the first chapter of this

thesis.

Statistical Treatment

To answer the questions proposed in this study, the data were subjected

to statistical treatment. The following statistical operations were used:

Average Weighted Mean. This was used to determine the extent of the revised

curriculum and the level of clinical performance of the students in sub-problems 1

and 2.

Mean. It is the average of the set of data used to determine the extent of the

revised curriculum and the level of academic performance of the students in sub-

problems 1 and 2. This answered 1and 2.

t- test. This was used to determine the significant relationship between the

extent of revised curriculum and the level of academic performance of the

students.

Pearson r or Product Moment Correlation. This is a method used to compare

the degree of linear relationship of two variables. This text was used to determine

the degree of linear relationship between the extent of the implementation

revised curriculum and the level of academic performance of the students in sub-

problem number 3.

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