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1) Co-curricular activities enhance the regular curriculum by developing students' confidence, skills, and academic performance. Research shows students who participate perform better. 2) Studies find participation in co-curricular activities correlates with career success and developing overall competencies. It helps students gain hands-on experience and gives them self-concepts and esteem. 3) The literature review discusses how co-curricular activities make students well-rounded and able to face challenges, by cultivating leadership, cooperation, and creative talents. The researchers aim to understand students' interests and factors affecting their participation.

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1) Co-curricular activities enhance the regular curriculum by developing students' confidence, skills, and academic performance. Research shows students who participate perform better. 2) Studies find participation in co-curricular activities correlates with career success and developing overall competencies. It helps students gain hands-on experience and gives them self-concepts and esteem. 3) The literature review discusses how co-curricular activities make students well-rounded and able to face challenges, by cultivating leadership, cooperation, and creative talents. The researchers aim to understand students' interests and factors affecting their participation.

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CHAPTER II

Review of Related Literature and Studies

Related Literature

As stated in chapter 1, the purpose of this study is to determine the factors that

affect students' participation in co-curricular activities in Saint Joseph College. Co-

curricular activities is defined as those activities that enhance and enrich the regular

curriculum during normal school days. They are also referred to as extracurricular,

extra-class, non-class, school-life, and student activities (Tan & Pope, 2007). Despite

the lack of a precise term, co-curricular activities seem more student-centered than the

regular classes. In co-curricular activities, students assume responsible positions of

leadership; students’ spontaneous interests and immediate needs determine affiliations

and experiences; and the teacher-supervisor is often a mentor or guide rather than an

instructor (Stevens, 1998).

Co-curricular participation prepares students for the future by equipping them

with a wide range of experiences and skills, particularly in a society where people tend

to change careers at least once over their lifetime (Nesan, 2009). If students are to gain

an absolute education experience, then participation in co-curricular program is a

necessity to their education and wellbeing during their secondary life and beyond. All

co-curricular activities are organized with specific purpose that varies according to the

nature and form of such activities (Madalli 2014). Most educators felt that involvement in

co-curricular activities helped to develop student’s confidence in a better way which is

essential in their academic process. Confidence in academic studies is a necessary


element in academic success. It seems almost self-evident that student engagement,

including co-curricular activities, has a positive impact on student academic

performance (Wang & Shiveley 2009). Students who participated in co-curricular

activities performed better academically than students who did not participate.

According to Boss and Railsback (2002), it can boost student’s learning in specialized

and/or specific areas, offer the benefit for a longer time, and provide the opportunity to

explore in depth something educational in addition to the regular contents. Moreover,

the educational programs can also be, for example, lectures from non-academic people

like industry experts giving their knowledge to the students. These types of programs

can motivate students to study hard. Further showing that through participation in co-

curricular activities, learners developed a positive perception of the school, a positive

attitude towards school work and become more disciplined buttresses (Marsh &

Kleitman 2002).

Related Studies

Co-curricular activities provide students with skills they do not always get the

time or opportunity to develop in the classroom. Research has shown that students that

participate in co-curricular activities, compared to those that do not, are more competent

in; communication, cognition, management of self and academic competency (Sitra &

Sasidhar, 2005). Studies have correlated greater participation in school activities and

hobbies as an indicator of greater success in their chosen career.

Co-curricular activities are widely thought to play a key role in students’ academic

success (Huang & Chang, 2004; Hunt, 2005; Camp, 1990; Stephens & Schaben, 2002),
and contribute to bachelor’s degree attainment (Tan & Pope, 2007). Students also

realize the importance of developing overall competences, by joining co-curricular

activities and working collaboratively with their student peers on academic work in order

to gain hands-on experience (Fung, Lee, & Chow, 2007). In most cases, positions held

in co-curricular activities help to give learners specific self-concepts and/or higher self-

esteem. Self-concept plays important role in the development of personality. Self-

esteem has to do with social competency and person’s feelings are influenced by social

competence, since it influences how person thinks, learns how he or she actualizes him

or herself (Clark, et al. 2002).

The role of co-curricular activities in students’ academic performance helps to

develop the all-round personality of the students to face undaunted task and turbulent

world of future. The co-curricular activities make the students fit for the future time and

develop a sense of competitive spirit, cooperation, leadership, diligence as well as it

provide backdrop for the development of their creative talents. Co-curricular activities

are vital because even though they are not a part of the core curriculum, they play a

very crucial role in giving the young boys and girls the ability to mold their lives to

become well-rounded people. The school activities have to be designed purposefully to

give an apt mix of student’s participation in academics and create a chance for all round

development.

The researchers got an interest in knowing the level of interest of students and

the factors that affect their participation in co-curricular activities. The researchers aim

to increase the level of awareness and understanding of the students with regards to

their interest and factors that affects their participation in co-curricular activities

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