Conduct a Mini-

survey on Filipino
Relationships
(family, school,
and community)
Personal Development

Quarter 2-Module 22
Conduct a Mini-survey on Filipino Relationships
(family, school, and community)
This module is crafted and made to guide you to see your social
relationship with others. Being able to create friendships and new
attachment with peers foster social relationships. The scope of this
module is intended for social. relationship in the middle and late
adolescence. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence
of the course.
The module focuses on social relationships with the family, school,
and community in middle and late adolescence. We cannot deny that
establishing relationships is vital to everyone. Looking for company
during the middle-ages sometimes gravitates the relationships and
attachments of an individual to their peers. Filipinos for instance, are
very much close to family, relatives, and even acquaintances.

After going through this module, you are

expected to:
a. Conduct a Mini-survey on Filipino Relationships (family,
school, and community)
 Middle Adolescents find themselves in the company of their
peers usually from the school or neighborhood. As they gravitate
more toward these groups, the attachment to the family as their
primary source of personal source or personal development shifts
to these peers or group.

Being able to create friendship and new attachment is critical

in the development of adolescents as they transcend to young
adulthood. From high school to college, adolescents nurture faster
socially where new lessons are learned especially on how their
social interactions are formed. They affirmed themselves with self-
identity and their self-esteem developed their capacity to nurture
who they are. In such way, learning to associate and develop
relationships is nurtured in this stage.
Social relationships are very common to all individuals.
Social relationships refer to the connections that exist
between people who have recurring interactions that are
perceived by the participants to have personal meaning.
This definition includes relationships between family
members, friends, neighbors, fellow workers, and other
associates.

Relationship is the way in which two or more people or

groups regard and behave toward each other. There are
many different types of relationships. In this topic, we will
focus on three types of relationships: Family relationships,
friendships, acquaintanceships and community
relationships.
Family relationships, or relatives are people we are connected to
through some form of kinships, such as parents, brothers and
sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles or step-parents. The family
includes siblings and parents you may see every day growing up,
and other relatives such as cousins, aunts, uncles, and
grandparents you may not see frequently.

Friends are people we are not related to but choose to interact

with. A friend is a person whom one knows and with whom one has
a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family
relations. Friends are people we trust, respect, care about, and feel
that we can confide in and want to spend time with. Friends are
close to you whom you can confide in.
Acquaintances are people you may encounter oftentimes, but are
not friends or relatives. For instance, they may be a neighbor who
lives on your road, a work colleague or someone you have seen a
few times at a social event but do not yet know well. Acquaintances
are persons whom you know slightly, but who are not a close friend.

Community relations simply describe a company's interactions with

the community in which it resides. Cambridge dictionary defines it
as the relationship that a company, or organization has with the
people who live in the area in which it operates. Building
community relationships can be the most important
communication activity undertaken by an organization for the good
of the community.
Filipino Relationship (family, school, and community)

Filipino's perspective in building family relationship is focused on

establishing close ties. Filipinos are very hospitable and friendly
people. They always smile no matter how they feel. Meeting someone
for the first time, Filipinos do not hesitate to give a smile before
starting a conversation. Filipinos have close family ties and always
wanted to talk about their extended family. Filipinos are very family-
oriented.
School
Home-school partnership occurs through the processes of cooperation, coordination, and
collaboration to enhance learning opportunities, educational progress, and school success for
students in the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral domains. According to M. Johnson
2015, Home-School Partnerships stated that Children's learning is increasingly moving toward a
broader vision of the 21st century learning. As children's education increasingly occurs across a
range of settings, parents are uniquely positioned to help ensure that these settings best support
their children's specific learning needs.
Parental involvement is observed in the school setting in the Philippines. The amount of
participation a parent has when it comes to the schooling of his/her children fosters healthy
outcomes thus, parental involvement is needed in children's education.
According to H. Castillon1 & A. Bonotan, The Dynamics of Home-School Partnership and
Young Learners' Performance: From the Lens of Kindergarten Teachers Conferences, Classroom
Projects, Contributions"; Partnership is strengthened with the 3 R's: Rapport, Reaching Out,
Recognition to Parents"; "Involved Parents beget confident, sociable, and active kids", "Less
involved parents tend to have kids who are timid, withdrawn and perform less." Parenting is
important in the Philippine educational setting because family is viewed as a center to one's social
world.
Community
Many of today's leaders in education, business and
community development are coming to realize that schools alone
cannot prepare our youth for a productive adulthood. It is
evident that schools and communities should work closely with
each. other to meet their mutual goals. Schools can provide more
support for students, families, and staff when they are an
integral. part of the community. Appropriate and effective
collaboration and teaming are seen as key factors to community
development, learning, and family self-sufficiency.
Partnerships should be considered as connections between
schools and community resources.
The partnership may involve the following:
1. utilization of school or neighborhood facilities and equipment
or giving out other resources
2. collaborative fundraising and grant applications giving
assistance
3. mentoring and training from professionals and others with
special expertise
4. information sharing and dissemination
5. networking recognition and public relations
6. shared responsibility for planning
7. implementation and evaluation of programs and services;
8. expanding opportunities for internships, jobs, recreation, and
building a sense of community.
School-community partnerships can intertwine
many resources and strategies to enhance
communities that support all youth and their
families. They could make schools better,
strengthen neighborhoods, and lead to a
noticeable depletion in young people's
problems. Building such partnerships requires
visioning, strategic planning, creative
leadership, and new adoptable roles for
professionals who work in schools and
communities.
Conducting a mini-survey
Filipino relationships are observed in the family, school,
community, and other agencies.

Find out how social relationships occur in the lives of

teenagers by conducting a mini-survey. In conducting a mini-
survey, you have to know how it is done.

Mini-surveys are carefully focused on a specific topic. It

contains only fifteen to thirty questions. It is given to a small
sample of twenty-five to seventy people. It usually uses more
closed than open-ended questions; that is, they use questions that
force the respondent to choose from a small set of alternative
answers, rather than inviting a freely expanded comment.
 To get a picture that will help you to design the next
stages of your research
Some uses
To assess the feasibility of a project
of the mini-
survey are: To get reactions from beneficiaries

To evaluate projects.
 1. Technically, mini-surveys for development research are
Advantages of usually structured interviews rather than questionnaires,
mini-survey: because questionnaires exclude people who cannot read.
Interviews have the added advantage of allowing you to help
people through a process that may be culturally alien,
A mini-survey can be confusing, or intimidating.
completed in three to seven
weeks compared to large surveys
2. The respondents are few.
that can take a year, before the
whole process is completed and
the results analyzed.
3. A mini-survey may not give you great precision, it may be
good enough to give you a general picture of the situation,
trends, and patterns.
 Steps in conducting a mini-survey

Step 1: Clarify Your Objectives Step 3: Choose the Respondents

Ask yourself. First, you must decide whether you are going to ask
a. "What do I want to find out?" "Why?" your questions of the entire group or second you use
b. "Is this technique the way to get this kind of sampling.
information?"
c. "When I get the answers to these questions, will they Step 4: Develop the Questions
meet my needs?" Prepare your questions to be asked from your
respondents. Learn to write good questions by thinking
Step 2: Find Out What Else Has Been Done things through and by knowing about the people who
.There are ready-made survey questions which were will answer them.
utilized by some researchers and may be good enough
for your purposes. This may provide you with some
useful ideas and information and will allow you to use it
for your study. This may also let you go a step a little
further for it gives a little ease to do. However, do not
automatically use someone else's questions unless you
are convinced they will work for you.
 Guide in writing questions: The Do's and the Don'ts

The following guidelines for writing questions were 4. Avoid metaphors and colloquialisms:
adapted from the work of cross-cultural research "Earl and Eljim agreed, but Eloise thought that was a
experts Brislin, Lonner, and Thorndike (1973), who horse of a different color."
created them to help in translating questions from one 5. Avoid the subjective mode, such as verbs with could
language to another. But they are useful even when you and would:
do not have to translate. "If the school could improve its security system, would
people send more girls?"
1. Use short, simple sentences of less than sixteen Avoid vague words such as "nearer," "often," and
words. However, sensitive questions may require a "frequent." "Would you like to live nearer to Baguio?"
softener. 6. Avoid possessive forms where possible:
2. Use the active rather than the passive voice: "Mila's sister took her request to her teacher." Whose
"Should the teachers discipline the students?" rather request, whose teacher?
than "should discipline be carried out by the teachers?" 7. Use specific rather than general terms:
3. Repeat nouns instead of using pronouns: The chief, the teacher, rather than the authorities, the
"When the teacher saw the Memorandum, he was soccer club, the debating team, rather than
terrified." Who was terrified? extracurricular activities.
 Guide in writing questions: The Do's and the Don'ts

8. Avoid words with two different verbs if the verbs

suggest two different actions: "Should villagers attend
and challenge the teachers at the parent-teacher
meetings?”