Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VIII
Borongan City Division
Sta. Fe National High School
Sta. Fe, Borongan City
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Academic Performance of Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe National High School: Influenced

of Extracurricular Activities

In partial fulfillment for the Inquiries Investigation and Immersion Subject at Sta. Fe National
High School- Senior High School

Presented by:
Jhon Carlo Delmonte

March, 2019
 Chapter I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Dropout rate is rapidly rising nowadays, which is not a good indicator for a

developing country like the Philippines. According to the report of Philippine News

Agency (PNA) by Cervantes, F. (2018), Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) survey said

that 3.8 million or 1 out of 10 children age 6 to 24 are out of school. There are many

reasons why such problem is attained, it can be financially, lack of interests, shortage of

school facilities, peer pressure and as well as student engagement on different activities at

school such as extracurricular activity that split their attention from many different thing

that causes a conflict on time management that may lead to a low academic performance

of students. A common problem in involvement of students in extracurricular activities is

that they might take on too much on it, they might give more priority on this than on their

academics. (http://www.healthofchildren.com/E-F/Extracurricular-Activities.html)

According to Correa, M. et.al. (2015) negative effect on student academic

performance can be acquired through engaging extracurricular activities, but

contradicting to this statement, Shiveley, J. (2007) stated that participating on

extracurricular activities has a positive impacts on the academic performance of students.

Academic Performance is one of the most important aspect for every student, it

shows the ability of a learner in different subjects such as Mathematics, Science and

English whether they fail or excel, also this serves as the basis if a student will be

promoted to the next level of education.

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 Extracurricular Activities (ECA) or also known as the non-academic activities

such as sports, dancing, and cooking was also been part of the student life that helps them

be more participative, boost their confident and showcase their hidden talents.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study will focus on the effect of engaging in Extracurricular Activities to the

Academic Performance of Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe National High School. Specifically

this study will try to answer the following questions:

1.) What are the different Extracurricular Activities the Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe

National High School are participating?

2.) Is there a direct effect of participating Extracurricular Activities to the Academic

Performance of the Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe National High School?

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

This study will try to attain the following objectives:

1.) To determine the Extracurricular Activities the Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe

National High School are participating; and

2.) To identify the relationship between Extracurricular Activities and Academic

Performance of Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe National High School.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The findings and results of this study will provide a better understanding about

the relationship between Academic Performance and Extracurricular Activities that will

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 be used as a stepping stone towards making solutions in aiding such problems. The

following people, organization, and agency will surely benefit on this findings;

Department of Education, this study will help them know about the effect of

engaging in Extracurricular Activities on the Academic Performance of students and so

they can make solutions and programs to solve such problems.

Students, this study will strongly benefit them, for they will be aware on how

extracurricular activities affect their performance at school, as well as they will be given

a choice if still they will participate in such activities.

The Researcher, this study will help the researcher in accomplishment on their

Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion subject and also it will help the researcher

breakdown the curiosity from the given problem; and lastly

The Future Researcher, this study will strongly benefit them because this can

serve as guide if they are going to conduct such study as will as serve as a related

literature on their research paper

SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF STUDY

The scope of this study is containing explanation of information that being

analyzed. This study would be only limited to the Grade 12 students of Sta. Fe National

High School that is engaged in Extracurricular Activities. The research will be conducted

within January to March 2019.

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DEFINITION OF TERMS

Academic Performance – it is the performance of students related to academics

that is being analyze by the researcher. It serves as the basis if a learner fails or excel in a

particular field.

Grade 12 Students – the respondent of the research

Influence - engaging with/ engaging to

- the power to change or affect someone or something

(Merriam Webster)

Extracurricular Activities (ECA) – also known as the non-academic activities

that serves as an extra pointers for student (e.g. sports). This is the factor that is being

monitored by the researcher that affect Academic Performance of students.

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 Chapter II

Review of Related Literature

Many factors affect the academic performance of students at school, it may give a

positive impact as well as a negative one. Extracurricular Activities is one from the

various factors affecting the performance of students at school.

Many studies stated about the impact of engaging extracurricular activity to the

academic performance of students, some says that it is a positive one and some also says

it is a negative one. According to Hattie (2008) as cited on the study of Shamsudin, S. et

al (2014) it says that engaging in extracurricular activities the students can benefit from

this, they can learn something out of it. Example after joining clubs and organization,

student acquire the ability or skill on leadership. Also in addition to the statement of

Hattie (2018) it shows that the more participation of student in different programs it has a

significant good effect on the academic achievement of students. In support to this

statement, the study of Hunt, D. (2007) similar to the findings of Ritchie G. (2018) they

say that participating in more extracurricular activities would help the student get better

grades.

Engaging such activities may give benefit to the student’s academic performance

but every positive effects there is also a negative one. According to Correa M. et al

(2015) negative effect on student academic performance can be acquired through

engaging extracurricular activity. Not all activities gives benefits the academic

improvement of students, engaging such activity varies on every learner. Supporting to

this, Hunt D. (2007) also says engaging in extracurricular activities does not help in

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 improving grades of student on their academic performance, student participating ECA

gets slightly higher grades than those who are not (Craft, W. 2012).

On Academic Performance

The most important factor for a high school students are their academics, as high school

learner grades matter the most and has a substantial part in college admission. In order to

succeed in their career, students are encouraged by their teachers and parents to study very well.

(Munavar, R., 2014)

Academic Performance is the student’s record of the past semester GPA and expected

GPA for the current semester. GPA is the tool that is being observed or use to identify the

academic performance of student, a better GPA a good academic performance (https://www.igi-

global.com/dictionary/academic-performance/42383).

Academic Performance as discussed in the study of Duckworth & Seligman, (2005) as

cited in the “Sense of meaning and academic performance: A brief report: Journal ...” (2017) it

is the complex phenomenon that is influenced by many different factors such as motivation,

reflective learning and thinking, study skills and etc.

On Extracurricular Activities

Extracurricular activities are program that is usually conducted by schools but not part of

the academic curriculum. It is an outside regular school day activity

(http://www.healthofchildren.com/E-F/Extracurricular-Activities.html). In addition to this

Extracurricular Activities (ECA’s) are simply those activities that is almost anything everyone is

actively and productively involved in. It is the activities that students do outside the classroom

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including Sports, Community Service, Employment, Arts, Hobbies, and Academic activities

(Barge, M.,2018). According to the concept of Grove, A. (2017) one of the best extracurricular

activity is leadership because it makes an initiative to transform once passion into something

more than a solitary hobby. ECA’s are not just activities that makes you enjoy rather this can

also be beneficial to every individual specifically to students. Extracurricular matter to the

academic performance of students because it help the ability of one learner to be sharpened and

improve. An impressive extracurricular isn't defined by the activity itself, but by what the

student accomplishes with the activity (Grove, A., 2017).

Extracurricular are very important because it helps individual to improve their hobbies

and interest to transform a more significant and useful outcomes and also help them teach that

besides studying there is many other things to discover. (Munavar, R., 2014).

Conceptual Framework

Engagement on
Academic
Extracurricular EFFECT Performance
Activities
of Students

Figure 1. The researcher diagram, showing the conceptual framework

The illustration above shows the association of extracurricular activities to the

academic performance of students. It indicates the effect of Extracurricular Activities to the

Academic Performance of Students.

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 Chapter 3

METHODOLOGY

This chapter covers the research method, population and sampling scheme, description of

the respondents, research instruments, data gathering procedure and statistical treatment of data

that were used to come up a credible and valid answers to the research problem.

Research Method

This study is a qualitative type of research. This would try to find out the relationship

between the engagements of extracurricular activities in the academic performance of student,

hence the researcher would use a correlational type of research method to examine the

relationship between the two variables of this study which is the Academic Performance and

Extracurricular Activities. Correlational research is a type of non-experimental research method,

in which a researcher measures two variables, understands and assess the statistical relationship

between them with no influence from any extraneous variable.

Population and Sampling Scheme

The target population for this research defined to include only the Grade 12 Students of

Sta. Fe National High School.

Grade 12 Strands in Sta. Fe National High School Total Number of Population

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

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(STEM) Strand

General Academics (GA) Strand 42

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 20

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 Strand

Agriculture and Fisheries (AF) A 21

Agriculture and Fisheries (AF) B 20

Total 130

Table 1. The population of Grade 12 Students in Sta. Fe National High School.

The table presented above is the population of possible respondents of this study.

A stratified purposive sampling will be used for selecting the participants of this study.

This technique was use to ensure that the study will stay focus on the limitations of the study

where is that the respondent of this paper are only Grade 12 students of Sta. Fe National High

School that is participating in extracurricular activities.

Description of the Respondents

The respondents of this study were the Grade 12 students in Sta. Fe National High

School who were selected through purposive sampling. In this sampling method, criteria were set

for the selection of respondents for the study. The respondent must be qualified to the criteria of

being a Grade 12 student of Sta. Fe National High School who is engaged in Extracurricular

Activities.

Research Instruments

This study will use an modified survey instrument from “Undergraduate Research

Journal for the Human Sciences - The Effects of Extracurricular Activities on the Academic

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Performance of Junior High Students” (2018), URJHS Volume 5.” from which will be given to

the selected concern respondents. Survey Rating Scales with Close-Ended Questionnaire will be

directly given to the participants, face to face. The primary aimed of this survey instrument is to

identify the effect of engaging extracurricular activity to the academic performance of student

that will be used in data analysis.

The research instrument (appendix B) adapted by the researcher titled “Academic

Performance of Grade 12 Students of Sta. Fe National High School: Influence of Extracurricular

Activities, Survey Instrument” contains:

 3 major sections:

o Personal Data, including names, grade level and strand.

o Preparatory Scale interview that contains question about the respondent

engagement on extracurricular activities and time expend in doing the activities.

o Modified Likert Fashion type of survey rating scale that contains question about

the effect of extracurricular activities on their grades.

Option Range Verbal Interpretation

1 1.00-1.49 Disagree

2 1.50-2.49 Disagree Somewhat

3 2.50-3.49 Agree Somewhat

4 3.50-4.00 Agree

The instrument was structured in the modified Likert fashion, on a 4 – point scale,

ranging from “agree” (1), through “agree somewhat” (2), “disagree somewhat” (3) to

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“disagree” (4). Subjects were then instructed to respond to their degree of

agreement with the statements contained in the instrument

Table 1. 4 point Likert Scale Verbal Interpretation

o Open-ended questionnaire that contains questions with regards

how extracurricular activities affect the academic performance of

student

Validation of Instruments

The Survey Rating Scale designed for the study was subjected to a validation process

for content validity. Content validity have been defined in

(https://researchrundowns.com/quantitative-methods/instrument-validity-reliability/) as

following:

Content Validity – the appropriateness of the content of an instrument.

In the process of validation of this study, copy of the survey instrument will be given to

the Inquiries Investigation and Immersion teacher that will carefully determine the suitability and

capability of the research instrument

Data Gathering Procedure

The researchers will undergo the following procedure to be able to realize this study:

First is the sending of consent paper to the office of the school head for the approval of

the research to be conducted. After the consent paper has been approved, the researcher would

immediately conduct the survey using a research questionnaire. And lastly after the survey has

been done, data gathered from this would be evaluated and analysed.

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Statistical Treatment of Data

The data collected from the survey will undergo data analysis. Statistical tools

will be used to treat the data gathered.

1.) Percentage. The statistical tool will be used to identify the proportion of the specific

category the respondent answered.

F
Formula: %= ×100
N

Where;

% is the percentage

F is the Frequency

N is the total Number of Respondents

100 is the constant value

2.) 4 point Likert Scale Weighted Mean. A weighted mean is an average

xw
Formula: M= w

Where;

M is the Mean

M is the measurement of value

w is the number of measurements or items

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 CHAPTER IV

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter provides the result and discussion of the data gathered by the researcher

from the conducted survey.

Results

Questions 1 Yes No

I am participating in Extracurricular Activities 13 0

Table 2. Student participating Extracurricular Activities

This table simply indicates that all the respondent from this survey are all participating

extracurricular activities. Most of it are band, dancing, and academic ECA like journalism.

Questions 2 Once Twic Thrice More

For the whole school year, how many times have you
0 5 1 7
join in extracurricular activities?

Table 3. Times the student participate extracurricular activities

This table shows and indicates that the student participate not only once a year in ECA

but majority more than thrice a year.

Table 4. Overall grades of the grade 12 students participating extracurricular activities

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 Questions 3. 0%-69% 70%-79% 80%-89% 90%-100%

My overall grades on my last report card 0 0 6 7

This table shows the grades of the grade 12 students who participate in extracurricular

activities 6 out of 13 respondent has an overall average ranging from 80%-89% which indicates a

satisfactory to very satisfactory performance. While 7 out of 13 from the respondent got an

overall average ranging 90%-100% which is outstanding to very outstanding.

Table 5. Tally of responses from the student on the 4 point Likert Scale

STATEMENTS 1 `2 3 4 TOTAL

My grades improved when I involved in extracurricular

2 0 9 2 13
activity

Participating in extracurricular activities does not affect my

2 4 6 1 13
focus on my study

The table above shows the tally of the second part of the survey questionnaire which is

the 4 point Likert scale.

Table 6. Weighted Mean of the responses of the students on the 4 point Likert Scale and

its Verbal Interpretation

Verbal
STATEMET Average Mean
Interpretation

My grades improved when I involved in extracurricular

activity 2.84 Agree Somewhat

Participating in extracurricular activities does not affect Disagree

my focus on my study 2.46 Somewhat

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 This table shows the weighted mean get from each statement of the questionnaire which

indicates how the respondent agree or disagree on each.

In statement number 1 which is the respondent asked about if their grades improved after

joining extracurricular activities the average mean get was 2.84, it simply indicates that the

respondent agree in the statements based on the verbal interpretation above.

On the next statement which is the respondent answer if participating in extracurricular

activity does not affect my focus on study, 2.46 was the average mean get, which indicates that

most of the respondent disagree somewhat based on the verbal interpretation.

Part III

Table 7. Reasons why the students engaged in extracurricular activities

Reasons why the students engaged in extracurricular activities

Result of the Survey Generalization

Health Benefit Based on the result from the survey, Health

Enhance Skills, ability and talent benefit, to enhance the skills, ability and

Personal Interest/Willingness talent, personal interest, experience, passion

Experience and memories and to be exempted in the examination are the

Passion/ For fun reason why students joined in extracurricular

To be exempted in exams activities.

Table 7 shows the responses of the Grade 12 students who engaged in extracurricular

activities when asked about what are the reasons in joining extracurricular activities, where 8%

says that to gain health benefit, 23% says that joining extracurricular activity will help them

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enhance their skills, ability and talent, 15% says it is their own will or interest to join in

extracurricular activities, 30% responded that gaining experience and memories are the reason

why they joined in Extracurricular activity, while for passion and for fun 38% responded as this

is the main reason why they joined Extracurricular Activities and lastly 8% says that to be

exempted in the exams is the reason why joining such activity.

Table 8 Effect of joining extracurricular activities on students’ school works

Effect of joining extracurricular activities on students’ school works

Result of the Survey Generalization

Getting lower grade Based on the result gathered from the survey,

Getting high grades the following are the effect of joining ECA on

Lack of concentration the student’s school work, first is getting

Inspired lower grades, second getting high grades, then

Missing out quizzes and activities lack of concentration, next is it is an

inspiration and lastly missing out quizzes and

It doesn’t really affect activities. But some says it has no direct effect

between the two.

This table shows the responses of the grade 12 student engaged in extracurricular

activities to the question, how joining extracurricular activities affect your focus on everyday

school works. 8% says that getting lower grade is one of the effect on engaging extracurricular

activity, 15% says the opposite, getting high grades is obtained in joining ECA. 30% from the

respondents says lack of concentration in academic works is one of the factor gained in joining

ECA. Another effect is that the student become inspired in doing the school works while

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engaging in ECA is 8%. Then 46% says that they got missed quizzes and activities due to their

engagement in ECA and lastly 15% says that joining ECA has no effect at all.

Table 9. Benefits gained after joining Extracurricular Activities

Benefits gained after joining Extracurricular Activities

Result of the Survey Generalization

Higher Grade
Based on the result taken by the researcher, he
Makes physically fit
found out that higher grades, makes
Enjoyment
physically fit, enjoyment, experience, skill
Experience
enhanced and camaraderie are the benefits
Skills enhanced
gained after joining Extracurricular Activities.
Camaraderie

Table 9 shows the responses from the respondents when asked about the benefits gained

in joining Extracurricular Activities. Getting higher grades is one of the benefit obtained in

joining ECA which 23% of the respondents stated. While 15% says that being physically fit is

benefited in participating ECA. 30% says that enjoyment, experience, and skill enhancing can be

benefited also from such activity and lastly a better camaraderie can be made while joining ECA

and 8% said.

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Table 10. Things to do to balance academics and extracurricular activities

Things to do to balance academics and extracurricular activities

Result of the Survey Generalization

Based on the conducted survey the researcher

found out that time management is the main

Time Management
thing that the students do to balance the

academic and extracurricular activities.

This table shows the answers of the respondent to the question, how do they balance their

academics and extracurricular activities, which the result is the majority of the respondents, all of

them says that time management is the best thing to do to balance both.

Discussion

After the data collection procedure and data analysis the researcher found out that

Extracurricular Activity cannot influenced the academic performance of the student because as

what the result obtained overall average of the student engaged in extracurricular activities has a

ranged in 80%-100% which is satisfactory to very outstanding which indicates a very good

academic performance of the student.

But even though extracurricular activity does not influence academic performance, still

student faced many consequences such missing out lessons and quizzes and lack of concentration

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but still they cope up with it with the use of time management and benefit a maintain passing

grade because of the involvement.

Having fun and passion is the main reason why student engaged in extracurricular

activity, it helps them boost confidence, build a better camaraderie, and maintain physically fit

and healthy.

CHAPTER V

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter shows the summary of the study and the conclusion generated based on the

results of the study. This chapter also states further recommendations given by the researchers

for better implementation of the study.

Summary of Findings

This correlational research study conducted through a survey questionnaire method, aims

to explore on the effects of Extracurricular Activities on the academic performance of Grade 12

students in Sta. Fe National High School. From the conduct of the study, results have showed

several implications, as follows:

1.) The primary reason for students to engage in different Extracurricular Activities is

because of their passion and to have fun.

2.) Due to Extracurricular Activities, the students’ time for studying is diminished. The

tendency is that they cannot focus on their academics. However even though they cannot

focus on their studies, still they receive a satisfactory grade which is supported by the

respondents and says that their grades improved while joining Extracurricular Activities

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 because they have the privilege to maintain a good grade in exchange of their

participation on ECA.

3.) The main difficulty in doing extracurricular activities is the lack of focus and missing

out of lessons and activities. But through time management the students can cope up with

this difficulty.

4.) Overall grades of the students who engaged in extracurricular activities lies under the

range of 80%-100%, which indicates a satisfactory and very outstanding academic

performance.

Now, the researcher can say that extracurricular activities has no direct effect

on the students’ academic performance, however sometimes student cannot focus on studies but

still it’s up to the learner to balance both. Doing two tasks at a time is never easy, but strive and

work hard to attain the goal of success.

Conclusion

The research showed that passion and having fun is the main reason why student decide

to join Extracurricular Activities. But joining extracurricular activity student time split, that

causes lack of focus and missing out of lessons and activities. But also because of the good time

management and benefits from joining Extracurricular Activities, students maintain a good

grades.

The researcher can now say that being an extracurricular member has no effect to the

student performance in academics. Most of the respondent stated that their grades improved after

joining Extracurricular Activities, which is one of the key factor for academic excellence.

Recommendations

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 The researchers of this study would like to recommend future researchers of this study

the following:

1.) Gathering data from a proportion number to the population of SFNHS in order to

produce solid and well-rounded data. Considering that SFNHS has a large population,

conclusion made will be enough to generalize on the effect of Extracurricular Activities

on student's academic performance.

2.) Tackle this topic and do a quantitative research to establish a concrete conclusion.

Considering these recommendations will make the conduct of the study firmer and

reliable.

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APPENDIX A

Letter of Intent

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 APPENDIX B

Modified Survey Questionnaire

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 APPENDIX C

DOCUMENTATION

RESPONDENT 1 FROM 12 STEM RESPONDENT 2 FROM 12 STEM RESPONDENT 3 FROM 12 STEM

answering the survey questionnaire answering the survey questionnaire answering the survey questionnaire

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 RESPONDENT 7 FROM 12 ICT RESPONDENT 8 FROM 12 AF B RESPONDENT 9 AND 10 FROM 12 GA
answering the survey questionnaire answering the survey questionnaire answering the survey questionnaire

RESPONDENT 11 AND 12 FROM 12

GA answering the survey questionnaire

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