CHAPTER 5

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS

The preceeding four chapters dealt with several aspects pertaining to the

research problem. This chapter presents the summary of the study, conclusions and

recommendations based on the data gatherd.

5.1. Summary of the Study

The main purpose of the study was to determine the perception level of grade 11

Pre-bacc Maritime cadets towards discipline. The study sought to find the following; the

profile of the respondents in terms of gender and academic performance level; the

perception level of the respondents towards discipline; the implications of the perception

level of the respondents when connected to profile (gender and academic performance

level).

This study employed a descriptive survey design since it facilitates adequate

data collection basically by the use of questionnaires. The design accomodates

quantitative approaches of the data collection and analysis. The target population of this

study consisted of 150 grade 11 Pre-bacc Maritime Cadets in Capitol University. The

study is consist of 145 male and only 5 female cadets as the respondents.

Due to shortage of time, convenience sampling was used to sample cadets. The

instrument that was used for this study is a 13 item questionnaire using Likert Scale.

The collected data was coded and tallied with the help of Field Survey (2014) and Data
Field (2015). The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as

mean, frequencies and percentages and summarized in tables. The analysis revealed a

number of findings. These are summarized in chapter 4 based on the research

objectives.

5.2. Conclusion

The following conclusions are based on the major findings of the study and in line

with the major research questions:

 Majority of the respondents has a high perception level towards discipline in

which they strongly agreed to the indicators given on the questionnaires. They

believed that it is helpful to their everyday life at school or helpful in a way as

being a maritime cadet.

 Cadets who performed well in class are expected to have a positive reaction

towards discipline. However, it was not clearly shown in data that the academic

performance level of cadets with regards to discipline is directly related to the

perception of the respondents towards discipline.

 The study does not imply that academic performance increases among the

cadets with increase in level of discipline.

5.3. Recommendations

Based on the outcome of the research, the following recommendation has been

made:

 Discipline should be enhanced among Grade 11 Pre-bacc Maritime Cadets to

improve their academic performance.

 School management should organize seminars and forum for students on the

importance of obeying rules and regulations.

 Through discipline, Cadets must strive harder in order to achieve a good

performance level in school.

 Further studies on the challenges facing education managers in enhancing

student discipline should be carried out in all institutions of learning in order to

have more comprehensive/ universal findings.