Background of The Study
Background of The Study
Many students often overlook the importance of writing a research paper. They take it as a
burden. They don’t realize that it is an opportunity to acquire skills that will be essential to
whatever future career plans they may have especially now that the global context requires a
productive research culture that can work along with the newest trends in education. They seldom
remember that a research paper tests the student’s ability to search, collect information, write,
compile, analyze and interpret a topic. It is an amalgamation of their total learning. Yet, research
as a field is undervalued in the Philippines that is according to Senator Bam Aquino (2016), as the
new committee chairman on Science and Technology during the discussion on the proposed
summative assessments in most academic courses in the Senior High School. Senior High School
students are required to present write-ups of scientific inquiry process, draft experiments, business
concepts, marketing ideas, essay on current social issues, critique papers, project plans, livelihood
projects and other such summative assessments. More so, transparent in the Curriculum Guide for
Senior High School is the inclusion of the subjects Practical Research 1 – Qualitative Research,
Practical Research 2 – Quantitative Research and Inquiries, Investigations and Immersion that
require Senior High School students to master research writing and that Senior High School
teachers are indebted to discuss it in a more creative and interesting way. But soon after the opening
of classes, teachers would often observe that the previously thrill-filled classroom is painted with
boredom, passiveness and lack of interest and motivation when they start teaching the rigors of
research paper writing. It is also observed that Senior High School students, when given a topic
on research writing, are not confident and are unsettled to further the writing activity itself.
Sometimes, it is the reason of not being able to advance in terms of subject accomplishments that
As a matter of fact, (Ganobscik & Williams, 2009), on their recent studies, highlighted that
academic writing plays a major role in higher education both in students’ understanding of the
course content and the consequent assessment of students’ knowledge. The academic staff was
aware of the importance of writing, with one survey highlighting that almost 90% of staff felt that
it was necessary to teach writing skills to students and maintaining standards of Academic Writing
has significant implications for both those teaching and learning in the higher education.
There is no better purpose for research than to elevate the eminence of humanity.
Furthermore, it sheds light to what students can do to cope with the advancement of trends in
education as a tool for individual and national development as a fundamental way in trailblazing
education
Preliminary Literature Review
In the theoretical framework, the students’ interest and ability to produce a scholarly
research output is highly affected by the teacher’s background in teaching research. That when
teachers are prepared with the skills in basic research, have a remarkable research culture and are
familiar with more strategies in teaching research, students will likely become more interested and
motivated in writing their academic papers and be able to produce a more scholarly output. The
framework elaborated that these factors are closely related with each other. When teachers utilize
more strategies to foster interest and confidence among the students, as an immediate conclusion,
they are prepared with the rudiments of basic research and that they have a notable research culture.
In the conduct of the study, the researcher is guided by the conceptual paradigm in Figure 1
presented as follows.
Students Research
Ability Output
Teachers
research role in the light of growth of higher education and changes to the organization of the sector in
many countries. Their article examines one strategy for research development: the use of writing groups.
It argues that writing is best seen as a starting point, rather than an endpoint, of the research process and
hence that fostering academic writing is a useful place to PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences
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Though it is a fact that the writing requirements and problems of Senior High School students have not
been targeted in writing survey research, in spite of the importance of writing in the lives of these
students.
Abridged Methodology
Research Design
The researcher utilized the Descriptive Method of research in the collection of data to make an
accurate presentation of a group due to the trait they possess. Descriptive Method, according to
Boholano (2016), determines and reports the way things are. The principal aims in employing this
method are to describe the nature of a situation as it exists at the time of the study, to explore the
causes of a particular phenomenon and to classify features, count them, and construct statistical
Respondents
The respondents of this study are thirty (30) Senior High School teachers who are teaching research
schools.
Sampling Techniques
The researcher utilized the Purposive Sampling technique to determine the respondents of the
study. Calmorin & Calmorin (2007), stated that the purposive sampling is based on the selection
made by the researcher because of the good qualities that they possess which represent the group
Instruments Used
The researcher used a questionnaire as the main instrument to gather data needed to fulfill the
The whole study takes 2 weeks and 3 days to be fully accomplished and is also divided into 3
parts: (1) making the partial of the research paper, (2)conducting the action plan of the data
gathering procedure, and (3) the critical analysis of data gathered together with its summary and
the overall conclusion of the study.
Objectives of the Study