A
Research Paper
Presented to the Faculty of the
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BACNOTAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Bacnotan, La Union
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Subject
PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1
RESEARCHERS :
JUSTINE ARBOLLENTE
PHENELOPIE ICE PACUBAS
JOJETROY VILLANUEVA
ALEXANDRA PARCHEMENTO
THERESE HASBELLE DY
KURTH JOSEPH ARCIA
RONAN URTILLO
CHAPTER 1
BACKROUND OF THE STUDY
The comfort room, or restroom, is a crucial space in any educational institution. It is
important to ensure that the comfort room is properly maintained, clean and functional
for the safety and health of students and teachers. This includes regular cleaning,
stocking of essential supplies, and ensuring that any repairs or maintenance needs are
addressed promptly. Proper maintenance of the school comfort room is crucial to the
overall well-being and comfort of everyone in the school community. The comfort
room, also known as the bathroom, is an essential part of any school. However, it is
often overlooked when it comes to maintenance. School comfort rooms that are not
properly maintained can pose health risks to students and staff.
Maintaining a clean and functional comfort room is essential in any school setting.
Not only does it promote good hygiene practices, but it also helps create a
comfortable and safe environment for students and staff. The first step in maintaining
a school comfort room is regular cleaning. Comfort rooms should be cleaned at least
once a day, or more frequently if necessary. This includes wiping down surfaces,
mopping the floors, and restocking supplies such as toilet paper, soap, and paper
towels. Regular cleaning helps prevent the buildup of germs and bacteria that can
cause illnesses. Proper waste disposal is also important in maintaining a clean comfort
room. Make sure that there are enough trash bins available in the comfort room and
that they are emptied regularly.
This helps prevent the buildup of waste and unpleasant odors. In addition to regular
cleaning and waste disposal, it's important to check for leaks in the faucets, toilets,
and pipes. Leaks not only waste water but can also cause damage to the comfort
room's structure if left unattended. Regular checks for leaks can help prevent costly
repairs down the line. If there are any damages to the comfort room such as broken
tiles or damaged fixtures, make sure to have them repaired as soon as possible. This
helps prevent accidents and ensures that the comfort room remains functional.
It's also important to promote good hygiene practices among students and staff by
encouraging them to wash their hands properly after using the comfort room.
Providing posters or reminders can help promote these practices. Maintaining a clean
and functional school comfort room is essential in promoting good hygiene practices
and creating a comfortable and safe environment for students and staff. By following
these tips on regular cleaning, proper waste disposal, leak checks, repairs, and
promoting good hygiene practices, schools can ensure that their comfort rooms remain
clean, functional, and safe for everyone who uses them.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
This study generally aimed to determine the Issues experience by Senior High School
Learners towards Comfort rooms maintenance.
Specifically, this study seeks to answer the following questions:
1. What are the Issues experience by Participant in maintenance Senior High School
comfort rooms?
2. What suggested Actions can be recommended by participant to Improve comfort
room maintenance?
SCOPE AND DELIMITATION
This study focused on the Issues experience of Senior High School Students in
Bacnotan National High School in maintaining comfort rooms.
This is study was delimited to senior high school students of bacnotan national high
school who are experiencing issues towards comfort room maintenance.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The result of the study will be beneficial to the following:
Senior High School Advisers. The result of this study can provide then new strategy
on helping students to maintain the comfort rooms.
Senior High School Students: This study can help the Senior High School students to
gain more knowledge on how to maintain the activities on maintaining comfort rooms
and avoid the issue.
Future Researchers. The result of this study could be a basis for their future research
about maintaining comfort rooms.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
To show the clear understanding of the study, the following terms were operationally
defined:
Comfort rooms: It refers a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usu. with a hinged
seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
Maintenance: It refers the process of maintaining or preserving someone or
something, or the state of being maintained.
CHAPTER 2
RESEARCH DESIGN
This study will be using Phenological research design. Phenological approach is to
illuminate the specific, to identify phenomena through how they are perceived by the
actors in a situation. In the human sphere this normally translates into gathering ‘deep’
information and perceptions through inductive, qualitative methods such as
interviews, discussions and participant observation, and representing it from the
perspective of the research participant(s). Phenomenology is concerned with the study
of experience from the perspective of the individual, ‘bracketing’ taken-for-granted
assumptions and usual ways of perceiving. Epistemologically, phenomenological
approaches are based in a paradigm of personal knowledge and subjectivity, and
emphasise the importance of personal perspective and interpretation. As such they are
powerful for understanding subjective experience, gaining insights into people’s
motivations and actions, and cutting through the clutter of taken-for-granted
assumptions and conventional wisdom.
Phenomenological research has overlaps with other essentially qualitative approaches
including ethnography, hermeneutics and symbolic interactionism. Pure
phenomenological research seeks essentially to describe rather than explain, and to
start from a perspective free from hypotheses or preconceptions (Husserl 1970). More
recent humanist and feminist researchers refute the possibility of starting without
preconceptions or bias, and emphasise the importance of making clear how
interpretations and meanings have been placed on findings, as well as making the
researcher visible in the ‘frame’ of the research as an interested and subjective actor
rather than a detached and impartial observer (e.g. see Plummer 1983, Stanley & Wise
1993).
Phenomenological methods are particularly effective at bringing to the fore the
experiences and perceptions of individuals from their own perspectives, and therefore
at challenging structural or normative assumptions. Adding an interpretive dimension
to phenomenological research, enabling it to be used as the basis for practical theory,
allows it to inform, support or challenge policy and action.
POPULATION AND LOCALE OF THE STUDY
This study is based on a Qouta sampling technique, because the target population is
already known by the researchers. The participants will be the Senior High School
students who are assigned to supervise the comfort rooms.
The researchers will conduct their study in Bacnotan National High School Senior
High School Building. One of the public school located in Poblacion Bacnotan La
Union
INTRUMENTATION AND DATA COLLECTION
Data will be collected through unstructured interviews. Which will be conducted face
to face. As part of study, the participants will be asked questions about the issues they
experience in maintaining the cleanliness of comfort rooms and their suggested
actions to improve the comfort room maintenance
DATA ANALYSIS
After collecting data through face to face interviews, the data will be documented,
analyzed and interpreted. The process or reasearch is systematically searching and
arranging the interview transcripts, observation notes, or other non-textual materials
that researcher accumulates to increase the understanding of the phenomenom.
Moreover, the process of analyzing qualitative date predominantly involves sub
themes and thematic statements and themes followed by identifying significant
patterns, and finally drawing meaning from data and subsequently building a logical
chain of evidence.
VALIDATION
The interview sheet prepared by the researchers will be validated first by the research
teachers followed by incorporating the suggestions or recommendations .
After validating the tool, the researchers will now conduct the research study through
sort of interviews towards the chosen participants.
