A PERCEPTION STUDY ON THE EFFECCTIVENESS OF USING GOOGLE
CLASSROOM FOR CLASS ACTIVITIES AMONG GRADE 11- STEM
STUDENTS OF MORONG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
IN S.Y. 2018-2019
A Research Paper
Presented to the Faculty of Senior High School
MOORONG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Morong, Rizal
In a Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements
For Practical Research 1
ANDREA MAE L. BARREDA
FRANCESCA ANDREA R. BERNALDDEZ
JAMES PAULO DM. QUIANO
ARAMIS L. TAMAYO Jr.
March 2019
Traditional Teaching is one of the teaching method that is still adhered in some
schools. It includes the chalk and the talk teaching style and a teacher-centric classroom.
Teachers are more likely to be in mode as knowledge dispensers rather than facilitators.
Teachers are the only source of knowledge and there is a lacking on expanding the way
of dissiminating information. This teaching method is one of the possible factors why
most of their senior high school students become tired and inactive in class. This causes
their academic performance to drop.
Morong National High School is then central secondary school in Morong, RIzal. It
offers education for the majority of the students in Morong in other nearby towns. The
school as institute so that some teaching style can be done in a modern day.
Due to the advancement of technology, there are so many things that had changed
as well as the manner of disseminating information most of the students have cellular
phones and a lot of things become modernalized. This modernization caused great
impact on the education. Some Senior High School students become tired and inactive
on the traditional way of teaching casing their academic performance to drop.
DepEd Order No.78, S.2010 or the “GUIDELINES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF THE DEPED COMPUTERIZATION PROGRAM (DCP)” States that
“With the legal mandate of promoting the right of all citizens to take
appropriate steps in making education accessible to all, the Department of
Education (DepEd) is geared towards the transformation of education
through the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP)”.
The objectives of the DepEd Computerization Program are as follows:
a. Provide computer laboratory packages to secondary schools;
b. Provide e-classroom to elementary schools;
c. Provide laptop units to mobile teachers;
d. Raise the ICT literacy of learners, pupils, students, teachers and school heads;
and
e. Reduce the computer backlog in public schools.
Modern society demands high quality teaching and learning from teachers.
Teachers have to possess a great deal of knowledge and skills with regards to teaching
and use teaching strategies that is appropriate to the current situation of the people and
society in order to meet those demands and standards of quality education. And based
on the experience of the researchers, using the modern teaching approach greatly
contribute on the overall performance of the students in class. Teachers provided with
proper training up-to-date information and new research on classroom management, on
merging technology tools for the classroom, new curriculum resources, and more could
become a successful factor to their school. (Darling Hammond et al. 2017; Borko 2004)
Based on the scenario presented above, the researchers aims to determine the
effectiveness of the modern teaching style such as using the Google Classroom as a tool
for classroom activities of Grade 11-STEM students of Morong National High School.
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of using Google Classroom as a tool
of Classroom Activities among Grade 11-STEM Students of Morong National High
School in S.Y. 2018-2019
Specifically, the study aims to answer the following questions:
1. How traditional teaching style contributes to the low academic performance of Grade
11 students of Morong National High School?
2. What are the significant effects of using Google Classroom as a tool for effective
teaching?
3. How Google Classroom helps the students to improve their academic performance?
4. What are the possible recommendations on the use of Google Classroom in teaching?
