CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

Introduction

The study will examine the effects of academic stress and pressure on Senior High

School students’ academic performance in facing new challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previous studies have demonstrated that parental pressure on students, academic stress, and other

personal problems affects student mental health which result to the learner’s performance

plummeting.

The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of stress and stressors, on

Senior High School students’ academic performance during the pandemic. Stress and pressure

work correlatively as a weighted anchor on students academic performance brought about by

declining mental health . If the student feels all the stress and pressure from their parents, the

weight of responsibility, and others, their mental health may tend to decrease the productivity

and focus in their studies.

Furthermore, this study sought to answer what are the main causes of academic stress and

pressure. And, how each greatly affect a student’s learning capabilities and performances.

This chapter describes the research methodology, which covers research design, data

collection, and analysis. Methods of data collecting, demographic and sample processes, data

analysis, presentation, and interpretation validity, dependability, and ethical considerations of all

factors to consider.
Research Design

Phenomenological design will be used under qualitative approach wherein the researchers

will have 6 respondents through proportional and snowballing sampling and use the experiences

of the respondents in presenting the gathered information.

This study aims to utilize the descriptive design wherein using the descriptive-

correlational method. This method is used in order to determine if there is a significant

relationship between the academic pressure and stress and academic performance of students

in Senior High School. It is both descriptive and correlational for Descriptive research is a kind

of research designed to give information, a textual information about the topic, variables and the

rest. And Correlational in a way for it is used to discover relationships among different variables

and to allow the prediction of future events from present knowledge which is the Perceived

Stress and Academic Performance as the variables and its result will be the prediction of the

aftereffect it gives to the student or respondents that predicts his or her future events.

It is a descriptive correlational study designed to examine the relationship between

perceived stress and academic performance. This study was a retrospective chat review of

students of Moreno Integrated School Senior High School from their First semester

experience of academic stress and its impact to their academic performance in facing

new challenges. The aim of this study was to examine the level of academic stress that the

students are experiencing in terms of: Relationship Aspect; Academic Aspect; Financial

Aspect; Emotional Indicators; and Personal Habits using the questionnaires prepared.

Also to depict the significant relationship between stressors and effects of stress on students.
And to know if there is a significant relationship between the effects of stress on students and

their academic performance. All of it to be examined through prepared questionnaires.

Research Instrument

This refers to the questionnaire or data gathering tool to be constructed, validated

and administered (Creswell, 2012). For efficient and reliable data collection, questionnaires were

used to convene the required data for the study. It aims to draw out the appropriate

answers or responses to the purposes or objectives. A survey questionnaire will be given to the

respondents with questions regarding the chosen topic of the researchers, which is the effects of

academic stress on Senior High School students in facing new challenges. The parts of the

survey questionnaire will be the following:

• Part I: The problems encountered by the students during the new learning system.

• Part II: The major stressors faced by the students in a normal basis.

• Part III: The observable effects of stress and pressure in the respondent’s: academic

performance, mental health, physical health, behavioral and cognitive aspect.

The researchers will make use of the following research tools for gathering data: the

research design questionnaire. This is were the given data is provided to the respondents in a set

of questions.

Locale Of The Study

School Grade 12 Students, in which only 10, Grade 12 senior students will be selected to

participate in the survey for this study. The respondents will come from each Grade 12 strands.

In Humanities and Social Science (HUMSS), two (2) respondents will be selected; from General

Academic Strand (GAS) three (3) respondents will be chosen; (3) three respondents of

Accounting, Business and Management (ABM); and two (2) will be from the Technical

Vocational Livelihood (TVL). The respondents from each academic strand will be selected

randomly.

Interpretation of Data

This section indicates how the data will be analyzed and reported; it should

specify the qualitative and/or quantitative methods that will be used in analyzing the data

gathered for the research. After Data Collection, the researchers will assess the survey questions

on the effect of Academic Pressure on Senior High School students in facing new challenges by

cross tabulating and filtering the results based on the research questions. With the decided

sample of 10, the researchers will be using the statistical tools such as; frequency

distribution, weighted mean, graphs, and tables.

Data Gathering Procedure

The finalized questionnaire will be distributed among the respondents. Prior to the

administration of the survey, the researchers will secure permission fro the school directly to

allow them to conduct survey among Senior High School students. The respective adviser of the
class will also be informed regarding the survey and the retrieval of the questionnaire to and

from the respondents. The researchers will explain the purpose of the survey and will discuss the

content on the instrument After the questionnaires had been complied the researchers

will collect them to ensure one hundred percent retrieval. Each questionnaire will be checked, the

response and rating will be collated and subjected with the appropriate statistical tools to

obtain the result of the study. The results will be tabulated in excel and subjected

for statistical treatment.