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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF

GRADE 12 ABM STUDENTS IN LIGAN CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Abong, Shane Kyla P., Dayte, Christine M., Neñiza, Gwen Aisle M. ,Ongue, Rosielyn O., Zalsos, MarizAnthonette F

ABSTRACT
Covid-19 pandemic has struck several countries around the world.
Due to these many countries around the world have agreed to
temporarily close educational institutions to minimize the spread of
COVID-19. However, learning has not stopped but, is now fully online
as schools and universities provide remote learning understanding of
how the COVID-19 crisis can affect the learning of students (JT
Report, Ed., 2020). The current COVID-19 pandemic has created
extraordinary challenges and has impacted the education sectors, and
nobody knows when it's going to stop.
To support and include in the educational sense, the new standard
should be taken into account in terms of lockdown and neighborhood
quarantine, quality education. In the preparation and execution of
the“new normal educational policy".
Keywords:
COVID-19 - is a disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus. 'CO'
stands for corona, 'VI' for virus, and 'D' for disease. Formerly, this
disease was referred to as '2019 novel coronavirus' or '2019-nCoV.'

INTRODUCTION
The fight against the threats to COVID-19 pandemic suffered
profound effects and impacts on almost all sectors in the human
race.These have resulted in the widespread disruption such as travel
restrictions (Chinazzi et al., 2020). One of the most affected is the
educational sectors.For almost two pandemic months, most countries
around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions to
contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce infections
(UNESCO, 2020).This closure has affected more than 1.2 billion
learners worldwide withmore than 28 million learners in the
Philippines (UNESCO, 2020).Responses like community lockdown
and community quarantine of several countries have led students and
teachers to study and work from home which led to the delivery of
online learning platforms (Crawfordet al., 2020).
The goal of this research is to understand the negative and positive
effect of covid-19 towards the grade 12 ABM students. This research
also aims to increase awareness of students' activities with this new
educational norm. According to the study " Due to the suspension of
classroom teaching in many colleges and universities, a switch to the
online teaching for undergraduate and graduate students becomes
effective.This form of learning provides an alternative way to
minimize either the contact between students themselves or between
the students and lecturers.However, many students have no access to
the online teaching due to lack of either the means or the instruments
due to economical and digital divide (A. Mandy, 2020). Thus, drive
the researcher in conducting this study.
This study aims to gain information about the impact of COVID-19
towards the learning of Grade 12 ABM students in Iligan City
National School. There will be 35 random selections of students each
section. The collection of data will be conducted through an online
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survey to which the researchers will only conduct the survey to those
students who have access to internet.
The rapid, unexpected and ‘forced’ transition from face-to-face to
remote teaching has entailed a number of challenges and constraints
but also opportunities that need to be examined. Existing literature
points to an ‘emergency remote teaching’ (Bozkurt and Sharma 2020,
i) "The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced uncertainty into major
aspects of national and global society, including for
schools......Without data on how the virus impacts student learning,
making informed decisions about whether and when to return to in-
person instruction remains difficult. Even now, education leaders must
grapple with seemingly impossible choices that balance health risks
associated with in-person learning against the educational needs of
children, which may be better served when kids are in their physical
schools." (M. Kuhfeld et al., 2020) There are students who can't keep
up learning online and prefer to study face to face because it is
different to receive instructions online and personally. Also, going to
school boosts the student's mood that helps them to feel exited to
study. And one of the reasons why learning face to face is better
because you can actually ask your classmates when something is
bothering you or you didn't understand. "With online learning, it’s a
great option, but it does wonders to incorporate some of the strengths
offered by face-to-face learning into the online environment. Doing so
transforms the online learning experience from a child simply sitting in
front of a computer reading prompts to one where they still have the
freedom to learn from home and on their schedule, but are also taught
and led by a live, in-person expert." (Ryan, 2019)
Face-to-face learning has been the standard way of instruction for
centuries. While online instruction is becoming increasingly popular,
in-person study may still be the best option for some people. With
face-to-face learning, teachers are better able to gauge understanding

and interest of students, and it is easier to generate group excitement
about a subject. It is also easier to hold students accountable. Due to
the suspension of classroom teaching in many colleges and
universities, a switch to the online teaching for undergraduate and
graduate students becomes effective.... This form of learning provides
an alternative way to minimize either the contact between students
themselves or between the students and lecturers... However, many
students have no access to the online teaching due to lack of either the
means or the instruments due to economical and digital divide...(A.
Mandy, 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic has affected education, and
teacher education in particular, in various ways. As a result of the
closure of universities and schools, teachers and students had to
rapidly adapt to remote teaching. Teacher education is no exception.
The need to create learning environments for student teachers doing
their teacher education preparation implied decisions, choices and
adaptations in order to meet not only the expectations of students but
also the requirements of teacher education as well as the conditions in
which both universities and schools had to operate (Flores and Gago
2020). In addition, lack of mentoring and support (Judd et al. 2020)
and issues related to teachers’ competencies in the use of digital
instructional formats (Huber and Helm 2020) have also been
identified. For informed and productive online teaching and learning it
is important to learn more about its potential and use. As such, it is
essential to go beyond emergency online practices and develop quality
online teaching and learning that result from careful instructional
design and planning (Hodges et al. 2020).
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
This study aims to know what are the negative and positive effects of
COVID-19 on grade 12 ABM students. This research also aims to
increase awareness of students’ activities with this new educational
norm.This study will also aim the following: To use online survey
forms as a tool to gain information about the effect of COVID-19 to
the respondents. To know what are the activities of students with this
new educational norm. To understand the positive and negative impact
of COVID-19 to the learners.
This study aims to gain information about the impact of COVID-19
towards the learning of Grade 12 ABM students in Iligan City
National School. There will be 35 random selections of students each
section. The collection of data will be conducted through an online
survey to which the researchers will only conduct the survey to those
students who have access to internet.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced uncertainty into major
aspects of national and global society, including for
schools......Without data on how the virus impacts student learning,
making informed decisions about whether and when to return to in-
person instruction remains difficult. Even now, education leaders must
grapple with seemingly impossible choices that balance health risks
associated with in-person learning against the educational needs of
children, which may be better served when kids are in their physical
schools." (M. Kuhfeld et al., 2020) There are students who can't keep
up learning online and prefer to study face to face because it is
different to receive instructions online and personally. Also, going

to school boosts the student's mood that helps them to feel exited to
study. And one of the reasons why learning face to face is better
because you can actually ask your classmates when something is
bothering you or you didn't understand. "With online learning, it’s a
great option, but it does wonders to incorporate some of the strengths
offered by face-to-face learning into the online environment. Doing so
transforms the online learning experience from a child simply sitting in
front of a computer reading prompts to one where they still have the
freedom to learn from home and on their schedule, but are also taught
and led by a live, in-person expert." (Ryan, 2019).Face-to-face
learning has been the standard way of instruction for centuries. While
online instruction is becoming increasingly popular, in-person study
may still be the best option for some people. With face-to-face
learning, teachers are better able to gauge understanding and interest
of students, and it is easier to generate group excitement about a
subject. It is also easier to hold students accountable. Due to the
suspension of classroom teaching in many colleges and universities, a
switch to the online teaching for undergraduate and graduate students
becomes effective.... This form of learning provides an alternative way
to minimize either the contact between students themselves or between
the students and lecturers... However, many students have no access to
the online teaching due to lack of either the means or the instruments
due to economical and digital divide...(A. Mandy, 2020) The COVID-
19 pandemic has affected education, and teacher education in
particular, in various ways. As a result of the closure of universities
and schools, teachers and students had to rapidly adapt to remote
teaching. Teacher education is no exception. The need to create
learning environments for student teachers doing their teacher
education preparation implied decisions, choices and adaptations in
order to meet not only the expectations of students but also the
requirements of teacher education as well as the conditions in which
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both universities and schools had to operate (Flores and Gago 2020).
In addition, lack of mentoring and support (Judd et al. 2020) and issues
related to teachers’ competencies in the use of digital instructional
formats (Huber and Helm 2020) have also been identified. For
informed and productive online teaching and learning it is important to
learn more about its potential and use. As such, it is essential to go
beyond emergency online practices and develop quality online
teaching and learning that result from careful instructional design and
planning (Hodges et al. 2020).
Research Design and Sampling
The researchers will use Non-Experimental Descriptive Research
Design because it is best suited to answer the research questions and
objectives of the study.
Non-experimental descriptive research is usually descriptive or
correlational, means that you are either describing a situation or
phenomenon simply as it stands, or you are describing a relationship
between two or more variables, all without any interference from the
researcher. This means that you do not manipulate any variables or
randomly assign participants to a control or treatment group. Without
this level of control, you cannot determine any causal effects. The
concerns are more about the validity of the measurements, rather than
the validity of the effects. (“Research Design”, 2020)
The researchers chose this type of research design because we the
researchers will collect, and interpreting the information to gather on
what’s the impact of Covid-19 towards the learning of Grade 12 ABM
students in Iligan City National High School.
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Statistical Analysis:

In this study, the researchers will conduct an online survey to know VARIABLES CATEGORIES NO. %
the impact of covid-19 towards the learning of Grade 12 ABM
students in ICNHS. 50 students with an internet access are the ABM EMERALD 25 62.86
respondents for the researchers’ study to answer the online survey.
And the statistical that we need to use is the following:
SAPPHIRE 25 37.14
Frequency it is a tabular representation of a survey data set used to
organize and summarize the data. (Lavrakas, 2008) TOTAL: 100 100
Percentage a display of data that specifies the percentage of
observations that exist for each data point or grouping of data points.
(Lavrakas, 2008)
The researcher provides a questionnaire in order to gather data through
Mean implies average and it is the sum of a set of data divided by the online survey. The data will be checked and validate by the research
number of data. Mean can prove to be an effective tool when adviser. The questionnaire is divided into these parts: The hindrance
comparing different sets of data (Dudovskiy, 2011). why students are procrastinating and the Effectiveness of the learning
on the students, and the stressful effect during this pandemic. Ensuring
that the answers given by the respondents would remain confidential.
Result and Discussion When the survey was done, the researchers then tallied the results
enabling to analyze and interpret the data.
Table 1 shown the different percentage of the Grade 12 ABM
students based on the different section: Emerald and Sapphire. Data Prior to Data Gathering, the researchers first seek approval from their
were collected to 50 respondents that consist of 25 (62.86%) Emerald Practical Research teacher to allow them to have a survey.
and 13 (37.14%) Sapphire. This study investigates the impact of
The researchers discovered that during this pandemic, there are many
Covid-19 towards the learning of grade -12 ABM students on Iligan
students Involve Anxiety, stress and depression while there is no face
City National High School-Main Campus .This study focuses only on
to face classes’ .The researchers found out those learners have a wide
the impact of Covid-19 towards learning .The data obtained from the
and wide variety of social media uses and have a positive and negative
grade 12 ABM students respondents. This study utilizes, Pre-test and
effect on them during covid-19.
Post-test design as the matter of fact that the respondents are only
Grade 12 ABM students of ICNHS selected.

Findings
The findings of this study indicate about the impact of covid-19
learning to the Grade 12-ABM students of ICNHS.
Whether covid-19 is the main hindrance why students are
procrastinating the average who says No is 51.4 % while yes is 48.6%
The distance learning is effective for them.42.9% of the respondent
answer moderately, 37.1% slightly
The stressfulness of distance learning is 37.1% effective 42.9%
moderately and not effectively is 14.3%.
While using technology that can helps you learn during this pandemic
got percent of learning neither 71.4% worse or better while poor that
not having learning as usual,8.6%.
Conclusion
To sum up the findings of the respondents, the result contains and
effect about the impact of covid-19 towards the learning of Grade-12
ABM students in Iligan City National High School.
Despite of this Pandemic (corona virus) the meeting and also the meet
and greet is strictly prohibited. To gather data of respondents the
researcher conducts an online survey questionnaire to the grade12-
ABM students of ICNHS learners. Furthermore ,based on the results
gathered by both two section ,Senior high school realize to take an
action or discipline themselves about the impact of covid-19 to our
learning in this generation .it should be a keen observant controlling
themselves. Thus all the methods introduced in this study will equally
help in providing teachers and school administration with knowledge
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to encourage students to participate largely in the prevention efforts
against of the impact in learning during this pandemic.
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