EFFECTS OF THE BROKEN FAMILY IN ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN TVL

TRACK SENIOR HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS IN MOLAVE VOCATIONAL

TECHNICAL SCHOOL

A Research Project

Submitted to

The Faculty of the Senior High School

Molave Vocational Technical School

Molave, Zamboangadel Sur

In Partial Fulfilment

Of the Requirements for Senior High School

Technical Vocational & Livelihood Education Track

By

APRIL ROSE DANIEL

JENE ROSE R. REPULLE

JOAN A. SIOS-E

MICHELLO V. MARIPOSQUE

VINCENT C. TABAS

March 2020
 Table of Contents
Chapter 1 .............................................................................................................................................................. 1
The Problem ................................................................................................................................................... 1
Background of the Study ......................................................................................................................... 1
Conceptual Framework ........................................................................................................................... 3
Statement of the Problem ....................................................................................................................... 4
Hypotheses.................................................................................................................................................. 5
Scope and Delimitations of the Study .................................................................................................. 5
Significance of the Study ................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
Definition of Terms ......................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Chapter 2 .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Review of Related Literature ...................................................................................................................... 8
Independent Variable ............................................................................................................................... 8
Dependent Variable ................................................................................................................................ 10
Chapter 3 ............................................................................................................................................................ 12
Research Methods ....................................................................................................................................... 12
Research Design ...................................................................................................................................... 12
Research Environment .......................................................................................................................... 12
Research Respondents ........................................................................................................................... 12
Sampling Techniques ............................................................................................................................. 12
Instrumentation....................................................................................................................................... 12
Data Gathering Techniques ................................................................................................................. 13
Statistical Treatment.............................................................................................................................. 13
Chapter 4 ............................................................................................................................................................ 16
Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data ............................................................................. 16
1. Profile of the Respondents ............................................................................................................... 16
2. Extent of the IV .................................................................................................................................. 17
3. Extent of the DV ................................................................................................................................ 18
4. Hypotheses Testing ........................................................................................................................... 18
Chapter 5 ............................................................................................................................................................ 19
Summary of Findings, Conclusion/s and Recommendations ........................................................... 19
Summary of Findings ............................................................................................................................. 19
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Conclusion/s ............................................................................................................................................ 19
Recommendations ................................................................................................................................... 20
References .......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Appendix A ........................................................................................................................................................ 21
Appendix B ........................................................................................................................................................ 21
Appendix C ........................................................................................................................................................ 21
Curriculum Vitae .............................................................................................................................................. 21
 Chapter 1

The Problem

Background of the Study

Education has been viewed by scholars based on their perception of what

education is about. Castle (1995) sees education as what happened to us from the day we

were born to the day we die (2000) , defines education as a weapon for combating

ignorance, poverty and disease, as a bridge between confusion and comprehension, as a

dam for conserving man's store of civilization and for generating the power to move to

greater civilization, as a means for transporting man from a state of intellectual

subservience to a state of intellectual poversignty.The homes is considered as the first

learning environment of the child. The family is the child's first place of contact with the

world. Family is a single word with many different meanings. People have many ways

of defining a family and what being a part of a family means to them. Families differ in

terms of economic, cultural, social, and many other facets, but what every family has in

common is that the people who call it a family are making clear that those people are

important in some way to the person calling them their family.

A broken family is a family that has split or separated due to a variety of reasons.

This leads to children being raised by single parents, stepparents or others not related

to the biological parents.Broken families can result from separation due illness, divorce

or other issues. The break-up of a family has many negative impacts on the children.

The children are more likely to act out against siblings, biological parents or
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stepparents. Children also develop emotional issues, such as anger, resentment,

loneliness and depression, due to the change in the family unit. Children involved in

broken families are also more likely to engage in early sexual activities and have

difficulties in school.

The homes is considered as the first learning environment of the child. The

family is the child's first place of contact with the world.Family is a single word with

many different meanings. People have many ways of defining a family and what being a

part of a family means to them. Families differ in terms of economic, cultural, social, and

many other facets, but what every family has in common is that the people who call it a

family are making clear that those people are important in some way to the person

calling them their family

A broken family is the parents who don’t live together as families. They are

separated and their children live with one of their parents. Sometimes the children stay

with their grandparents if the couple has their own new family. A broken family is the

indifference of two couple, the husband and the wife has their own way of life without

each other only their children will left and the one who suffer the most. The problem of

having a broken family can have many negative results on the children’s attitude.

A broken family also become a broken home once the parent has its own new

family of their own and the children left without their knowing. The children don’t have

a father and a mother at home. Their parents are separated and sometimes the parents

decide who they can go off their children. Sometimes even the children can also be
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separated from their sibling if their parent is separated they choose who will stay with

the mother and who will stay with the father.

A broken family is a family that has split or separated due to a variety of reasons.

This leads to children being raised by single parents, stepparents or others not related

to the biological parents.Broken families can result from separation due illness, divorce

or other issues. The break-up of a family has many negative impacts on the children.

The children are more likely to act out against siblings, biological parents or

stepparents. Children also develop emotional issues, such as anger, resentment,

loneliness anddepression, due to the change in the family unit. Children involved in

broken families are also more likely to engage in early sexual activities and have

difficulties in school.

Conceptual Framework

The conceptual framework of the study in shown in Figure 1.

From single parents Effects in Academic

-Separated parents performance
-Living in Grandparents -Participation
-Living in Mother -Absentism
-Living in father
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This study treated one (4) independent variable specifically Separated parents, living in

grandparents, living in mother, living in father and one (1) dependent variable which is the

Effects in academic performance.

Purpose of the study

This study sought to determine the effects of Broken Family in Academic Performance

Statement of the Problem

The main objective of this study is to determine the Academic performance of

the students that belongs to Broken Family.

Specifically, it aims to answer the following queries:

1. What is the Academic performance of the Students under Broken Family?

2. What could be the possible effects of Broken Family in terms of the following

indication

1.1 Individual Attitude

1.2 Education

1.3 Communicating

3. Is there a significant difference between students who lives in their mother and

student's who lives in their father towards the Academic Performance?

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Hypotheses

The following null hypotheses shall be tested using the 0.05 level of significance:

1. There is no significant relationship between between student who lives in

their mother and student's who lives in their father towards the Academic

Performance.

Scope and Delimitations of the Study

The study focused on the following areas as parameters to describe the effect o

Broken Family in Academic Performance in Senior High School Students in Molave

Vocational Technical School

Subject Matter

This study shall focus on Academic Performance of the Senior High School Students

under Broken Family in Molave Vocational Technical School.

Research Environment and Timeline.

The interview/survey will be conducted in Molave Vocational Technical School.

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Research Subjects

The study is applicable to Senior High School Students in Molave Vocational

Technical School.

Research Design

The reseachers will conduct an interview/survey through giving questionnaires

to the respondents.

Significance of the study

We all know that divorce is not prohibited in the Philippines. We Filipino, as a

christian country, we know that appliying divorce is not good because it may ruin our

morality, dignity and culture. However, for many, divorce remains a negative and

traumatic experience.

The following will be benefit by the study:

Parents: The study will provide parents an information regarding to the possible effects

o Broken Family in Academic Performance.

Students: The study will help students of Broken Family express reactions and feelings

they had inside based on their experiences.

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Other Researchers:

Definition of Terms

The following terms will be used extensively in this study and shall be taken according to the

definition given below

Broken Family- are those family whose parent doesnot live together

Communicating- talking into someone on sharing ideas, reactions and feelings.

Education- process of facilitating learning on the acquisition of knowledge, skills,

values, beliefs and habits.

Individual attitude- denotes the sum total of man's indinations and feelings, prejudice on

bias, perconceived notions, ideas, fears, threats, and othe any specific topic.
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Chapter 2

Review of Related Literature

This chapter discusses certain literature and studies that are related tothe variables in

order to provide the foundation of the proposed study. The scholarly works provided in this

chapter were adopted from the renowned authors conducting similar studies. The intellectual

contribution of these authors in the body of knowledge was explored to substantiate the present

research study.

Independent Variable

The family is the child’s first place of contact with the world. The child as a result, acquires

initial education and socialization from parents and other significant persons in the family.

Agulana (2000) pointed out that the family lays the psychological, moral, and spiritual

foundation in the overall development of the child. Structurally, family/homes is either broken

or intact. A broken home in this context is one that is not structurally intact, as a result of

divorce, separation, death of one of parent and illegitimacy. According to Frazer (2004),

psychological home conditions arise mainly from illegitimacy of children, the label of adopted

child, broken homes, divorce and parental deprivation. Such abnormal conditions of the home,

are likely to have a detrimental effect on school performance of the child he asserts. Life, in a

single parent family or broken home can be stressful for both the child and the parent. Such

families are faced with challenges of inadequate financial resources (children defense find 2004).

Schults (2006) noted that if adolescents from unstable homes are to be compared with those

from stable homes, it would be seen that the former have more social, academic and emotional

problems. Rochlkepartain (2003) is of the opinion that the family and its structure play a great

role in children’s academic performance. Levin (2001) states that parents are probably the actor

with
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The concept of effects of having a broken family. According to glenn (2010)

broken family varies from numerous reasons why it had to be that way. But usually,

misunderstanding starts from simple domestic quarrel that grows impertinently

damaging the long-forged relationship between the family members. When a couple

split up, it is the children that are greatly affected scarring them physically, emotionally

and socially. Marla (2014) says broken family students failed to handle the curriculum.

This failure includes various aspects of educational failure such as rebellion, frequent

absence from classes, dropping out and many more. Studies have shown that people

shown that people with academic failure are more probable to rebel and use drugs at

older ages; therefore, academic failure and dropout might result to rebellion, drug, and

alcohol addictions.

Living in single parent is difficult because there’s a need of love, care, and

fulfilment of the duty of both parents. If the role of each parent is broken it will damage

and have a great impact to the student, on how will the student live with it. If one of the

parent will left due of miss understanding circumstances and will lead to divorce

households and responsibilities there is an effect to the relationship to other member of

family. If that’s the case, it will depend to the children and parent who take care of the

child if managing a households and responsibilities will reflect a positive or negative

outcomes in their situation.

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Dependent Variable

This review of related literature has found that there is a gap in understanding or

inconsistency of findings and understandingrelated to the relationships of the variables. Hence,

this study is proposed to establish the relationships of single parents, living in grandparents,

living in mother, living in father towards the effects of broken family in academic performance

in order to substantiate existing knowledge.

Education is also an area wherein stark differences in the outcomes for those who had

been in a broken home are created. According to Lann (2010) for 18- to 24-year-olds, 62

per cent of those who experienced parental divorce/separation during their childhood

completed 12 years of education compared with 77 per cent of those whose parents did

not. Hence, this study was conducted in the College of Computing Education

Department in University of Mindanao in order to evaluate the effects and to determine

what student do to lessen the suffering of having a broken family, and how to overcome

the effects on their academic performance.

Several findings said that children’s family backgrounds are as important – if not more

so – than whether their home is poor, workless, has bad health, or has no one with any

educational qualifications. The effects, however, are more focused on the children.
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Premarital sexual activities is one of the major effects of splitting of families, sometimes

with only one parent guiding, the child has more chance of rebelling against his/her

parent. Also, increase in financial problem, hatred and anger builds up from families

who experience distraught in their relationships.

According to Bryan (2005), children are likely to excel in academics when their parents'

actively participate in their education. Education is necessary and important to society.

Education provides insight, increases knowledge and skill. It is important to the

development of human capital and an individual's ability to provide a better living.

Thus, the education of parents as well as their economic status is crucial elements to the

educational outcomes of students. Economics plays an integral role in this educational

experience, and even plays a substantial role in student confidence, further exacerbating

its influence (Smith, Wohlstetter, Kuzin & De Pedro, 2011).

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Research Methods

This chapter presents the research methodology of the study. It includes discussion on

the research design and research methods covering the research environment, research subjects,

sampling techniques, instrumentation, data gathering techniques, and statistical treatment.

Research Design

The study is an interview survey employing quantitative methods

Research Environment

The interview survey will be conducted in Molave Vocational Technical School

Research Respondents

The study is applicable to students who belongs to Broken Family

Sampling Techniques

The researcher use purposive sampling in selecting samples in which decisions

concerning the individual to be included in the sample are taken by the researcher, based upon a

variety of criteria which may include specialist knowledge of the researcher issue, or capacity

and willingness to participate in the research. This is done through randomly picking of samples

for the purpose of the study

Instrumentation

Quantitative data will be collected through questionnaires.

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Data Gathering Techniques

The researcher seek permission to the cooperating principal of Molave Vocational

Technical School, to conduct survey interview inside the school campus. The researchers meet

up with those of the chosen sample population to ask for their time for the conduct of the study.

With the permission given by the principal, the researchers conducted an interview survey.

Then prepare the materials (questionnaires) for the implementation of the study. The data for

this research were collected using survey questionnaires relevant to the study.

The researcher interpreted the data gathered. The researchers compared the results to

determine the Effect of Broken Family in Academic Performance and in order to come up with a

conclusion.

There were no incentives offered to the respondents for participating in the said

research.

Statistical Treatment

To determine the significant difference between the single parents, living in mother,
living in father, and living in grandparents towards the effects of Broken Family in Academic
performance, One Way Anova of significant difference was used.
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Research Environment

The school under the study is located in the first district of the Province of the
Zamboanga del Sur under the Municipality of Molave particularly in Mabini street, main
campus.

The Molave Vocational Technical School is a DepED manage monograde Public

Secondary School. Molave Vocational Technical School is the biggest highschool in Salug
Valley area comprisingssix (6) municipalities of Molave, Tambulig, Mahayag, Josepina, Ramon
Magsaysay and Dumingag.

In 1954, the Molave HighSchool was founded by honourable Javier Ariosa, the
Municipal Mayor, by virtue of Municipal Resolution no. 21,s of 1654, it was the first Provincial
Highschool in Zamboanga del Sur and was considered the Mother High School in the Province
which is currently known as Molave Vocational Technical School. In which, this school
implemented the K-12 Senior High School program for the goal of creating a skilled and
globally competitive students and towards the corporate world. It also has a good conditioned
facilities like private lab, shops, library, school clinic, and comfort rooms.
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Chapter 4

Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data

This chapter presents, analyses and interprets the data on IV andDV in order to provide

answers to the research questions.

[In presenting your data, follow the manner you enumerated your research questions in

your statement of the problem. Data for the first RQ is to be presented first so on and so forth.

Use a table, graph or chart to present your data. Write an analysis and interpretation but do not

reiterate in your narrative what is already presented in the table. Finally, cite related studies to

corroborate your findings]

1. Profile of the Respondents

Figure 2: Distribution of the Respondents in terms of Gender

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Gender

Male Female

The figure above shows that there are more male respondents (80.0%) than the female

which comprises only 30% of the sample. The sample depicts the true gender distribution of the

population because there are more male students who enrol in the STEM Strand than female

students.In the study conducted by Balaod, et.al (2017) it was found that male students are more

inclined to take up sciences and engineering while the female students prefer social sciences and

teaching.

2. Extent of the IV

Table 1

Items Weighted Interpretation

Mean

1 The teachers is etcetcetc 2.6 Good

2 3.0 Very Good

3 3.2 Very Good

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4 3.8 Very Good

5 3.0 Very Good

Overall Mean Response 3.5 Very Good

Hypothetical Mean Range: 1.00-1.75 Poor

1.76 – 2.5 Fair
2.51 – 3.25 Good
3.26 – 4.00 Very Good

3. Extent of the DV

4. Hypotheses Testing

The following hypotheses were tested using the 0.05 level of significance.

There is a significant difference between Group 1 and Group 2 in terms of …..

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Chapter 5

Summary of Findings, Conclusion/s and Recommendations

This chapter contains the summary of the findings, the conclusions drawn by the

researcher on the three variables in the study, and the recommendations, based on the strength

of the findings.

Summary of Findings

The following is the summary of the findings of the study after the data had been

collected, analysed, and interpreted:

1. (Question 1)

Answer to Question 1

2. (Question 2)

Answer to Question 2

3. And so on

Conclusion/s

(Refer to your general statement of the problem) Make a general statement relevant to

the purpose of your study. Add statements on so what? (ex. Students’ engagement in online

games affects their social behaviors and academic-related behaviors. Then HEIs/Guidance

Center should ….[still generic statements]. )

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Recommendations

Based on the findings, the researcher endorses the following recommendations:

1. (Identify the target group/persons who will implement the recommendation, then

state the specific course of action.)

2. And so on…

3. C

4. C

5. C

6. c
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References

APA format, alphabetical order, hanging indention

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Curriculum Vitae