ADHERENCE OF STUDENTS TO THE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS AND ITS IMPACT ON STUDENTS

LEARNING AND WELL-BEING

Adherence of students to the Health and Safety Protocols and its Impact on students learning and

well-being

This research paper is submitted as final requirement for the

subject Practical Research 2

Pedelino, Michaela Isabel

De Vera, Franchezka Pia

Yumul, Katrina

Pelayo, Joy

Misa, Mark Lenard

Holy Cross College

Sta. Lucia, Sta. Ana, Pampanga

November 2022

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Chapter I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

Because of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, education is one of the

most impacted aspects of human life. Since the rise and threat of the pandemic, many countries

around the world have decided to temporarily close schools, affecting millions of students. As a

result, students, mostly children, have been facing a learning crisis as a result of the pandemic. In

a recent correspondence published in this journal, the authors stated that every country is

responsible for developing strategies to reopen schools in a safe manner.

To prevent students from becoming infected with the disease, the Philippine government's

Department of Education has issued guidelines for implementing online and modular distance

learning delivery of instruction. However, plans to conduct a pilot implementation of limited face-

to-face delivery in low-risk areas of COVID-19 transmission in January 2021 were approved by

the president but later withdrawn due to the threat of the new COVID-19 strain. Concerns have

been raised about whether the country is ready to open its schools to students for face-to-face

learning, despite having one of the world's longest and strictest lockdowns.(Sarmiento, Sarmiento

and Tolentino,2020)

The global outbreak of the highly contagious new coronavirus strain known as COVID-19,

for which no vaccine exists, continues to pose unprecedented challenges. The greatest impact of

COVID-19 at this point stems from the need to practice strict social or physical distance in order

to prevent or mitigate its spread. This meant that classes and other school activities would be

canceled for the remaining weeks of School Year (SY) 2019-2020, and that schools would be

closed for SY 2020-2021.

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the trendy Omicron version wave have dramatically

impacted societies in all sectors and in any respect levels. After close to conventional faculty

closures in March 2020 that affected 1.6 billion newbies and extra than a hundred million teachers

and educators worldwide, worldwide places spherical the area have advanced health and safety

protocols so as to appropriately keep schools open and guard students, teachers and distinctive

educational frame of employees from the transmission of COVID-19. However, due to the fact the

emergence of the Omicronvariant in December 2021, those protocols had been disrupted and are

being reevaluated as schools struggleto address a state-of-the-art set ofchallenges marked through

manner of manner of frame of employees shortages, threats to school safety and political battles

over health measures.Based on an evaluation of 35 worldwide places, this research targets to offer

a contemporary evaluation of countrywide health and safety protocols to keep schools open, their

dimensions and the way they're designed, applied and controlled to make sure the continuation of

education. It moreover targets to manual education systems through manner of manner of outlining

some education learnt and effective practices on how the reopening of schools might be performed

appropriately and successfully. Finally, the research seeks to make contributions to a better know-

how of the affects of the protocols on mastering in addition to the social and emotional wellbeing,

health and development of newbies and teachers.In a changing environment in which infection

rates are developing at an exponential rate, it moreover explores how the Omicronvariant

isaffectingcurrent operations and what education systems ought to do to keep schools open whilst

ensuring that each one students are safe and learning(UNESCO, 2022).

After months of hiatus, countries around the world have started reopening schools by

establishing three key models aimed at safe learning and educational processes.

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The first model by Brandon et al. (2020) was an influenced grade model developed by Age

Discrimination Employment Act et al., (2021). Also called physical layout adjustment. In this

model, students are stratified based on grade levels or divisions, so classrooms can accommodate

smaller sizes and establish expanded infrastructure such as desks and desks. This approach requires

additional teachers to deliver additional classes. For example, schools in Belgium, Denmark,

France, Greece, Norway and Sweden initially reopened only to younger children, while in

Germany the belief is that older students are better able to observe physical distancing. Schools

have reopened only to older students based on and transmission control measures. Additionally,

countries that have taken such actions include Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Lesotho,

Rwanda, Somalia and Togo (ADEA et al., 2021).

A second model for reopening schools was to adjust the schedule of classes. In this model,

rotating shifts and alternating class days were primarily practiced to accommodate smaller classes

and to ensure greater social distancing. For example, in Germany, South Korea, and Scotland,

students were forced to attend alternating shifts (morning and afternoon), while in Belgium and

Switzerland, students had to attend on alternate days. Additionally; Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria,

Cameron, Mozambique, Malawi and Somalia are some of his GPE partner countries that have used

this model (ADEA et al., 2021).

His third model by Brandon et al. (2020) was the implementation of infection control

measures such as reduced class sizes, physical distancing, face masks, hand washing, temperature

checks, virus or antibody testing.For example, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, South

Korea. , Taiwan and Vietnam have adopted the use of face masks with some variation in age

requirements, while Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, South Korea, Norway,

Scotland and Switzerland have reduced class sizes. (usually 10-15 students, or about 50% of the

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normal training time capacity). Several other countries use desk dividers to improve physical

separation between classroom desks (Israel, Sweden, Taiwan, Vietnam).

The operation of the non-public fundamental schooling establishments within side and

across the international changed into significantly tormented by the COVID-19 pandemic which

started in December 2019. It have become a global fitness disaster wherein all and sundry have

been actually affected no matter age, gender and social status. The international stopped and

financial system collapsed as all agencies shutdown operations. For instance, maximum nations

closed the schools, schools and universities to incorporate the unfold of the virus. The disaster

have become a quandary now no longer handiest to the fitness sectors however additionally to the

schooling sectors. When the Philippine authorities ordered closures of all academic establishments,

the disruptions have been unexpected on account that training have been nonetheless running. At

the peak of the pandemic, academic establishments got here out with far flung getting to know as

an opportunity solution. The instantaneously movement and method goals to mitigate the closure

at the same time as constantly turning in first-class schooling.

Sudden shift to online learning has sparked heated debate in the Philippines Poor living

conditions for learners. Those who can afford resources and do not use new educational platforms.

The State of Children in the Public School System Sends a Message of Inequality DepEd's motto

is "No Child Left Behind". However, learning cannot be interrupted. This has led to stricter

measures being taken by educational institutions to maintain their goals. The solution is online

teaching and learning. This Platform challenges both teachers and students when thinking about

something new. This requires 'rapid adoption' responding to the new normal in teaching and

learning during a pandemic(Felter and Maizland, 2020).

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Significance of the Study

The findings of this research will prove useful to the following entities and individuals:

Students. Being able to be ready in terms of preventing the risk of having Covid-19 during

this time of pandemic and full face-to-face class.

Teachers. This research will make teachers alert and more strict in terms of the health and

safety protocols of the students.

Holy Cross College. The findings of the research will allow the school to develop their

health and safety protocols.

Other Academic Researchers. This study may serve as a basis for future academic

researcers who want to have a clearer understanding of the adherence of students to the health and

safety protocols and its impact on students learning and well-being.

Statement of the Problem

The study aims to identify the adherence of students to the health and safety protocols, its

impact on students learning and well-being.

Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:

1. What is the response of the students towards the health and safety protocol?

2. What is the attitude of the students on having health and safety protocols?

3. How does health and safety protocols affect the self-evaluation of learning and well-

being of the students?

Hypotheses of the Study

Based on the research questions, the researchers hypothesize that:

1. H0 - Male are the one who's not following the health and safety protocols.

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2. H1 - There is a positive response of attitudes towards health and safety protocols.

3. H0- Health and safety protocols has no significant effect to the self-evaluation of learning

and well-being of the students.

Conceptual Framework

Attitude of students

Adherence of Health and

Safety protocols Self-evaluation of learning

Students well-being

Figure 1. Paradigm of the study

Figure 1 shows the variables of the study. Health and Safety protocols, like the protocol

you often follow at school, means a written plan containing safe work procedure to address

identified hazards and to mitigate or control identified hazards.(Law Insider)By knowing the

adherence of Health and safety protocols, the researcher can determine the attitude of the students

in this protocol. This will then be correlated to the self-evaluation learning and the students well-

being regarding this matter.

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Scope and Delimitation

This study focuses on examining the Adherence of students to the Health and Safety Protocols and

its Impact on students learning and well-being. The researchers will confined 250 students under

Senior High School Department. The variables that will be studied here are the attitude of students

towards the safety protocols, self-evaluation learning of students, and the students well-being.

The study will be identifying the basic safety protocols in Holy Cross College and examine its

impact on students learning.

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Chapter II

METHODOLOGY

Research Design

The research is designed to gather accurate information to explain concepts or

events that are not well understood. Gathering accurate information is a critical part of
research. Information gathered for research can be collected in many ways depending on
the type of research design that is being used. The method used to gather information
depends on the questions that the research will attempt to answer, Trochim (2005). This
research will demonstrate quantitative, non-experimental research and employ the
correlational method to validate appropriateness to guarantee the quality and integrity of
the research findings. A correlational research design investigates relationships between
variables without the researcher controlling or manipulating any of them. A correlation
reflects the strength and/or direction of the relationship between two (or more) variables.
The direction of a correlation can be either positive or negative. (Bhandari, 2022).
Correlational research is ideal for gathering data quickly from natural settings. That helps
you generalize your findings to real-life situations in an externally valid way. This design
will be used because the primary goal of the research is to determine the adherence of
students to the health and safety protocols and identify its impact on students learning and
well-being.
Respondents

The study’s target respondents will be Grade 12-HUMSS students.

Cluster sampling will be used in this study. Cluster sampling divides a population
into smaller groups called clusters. They then draw a sample at random from these
clusters. Cluster sampling is a method of probability sampling that is often used to study
large populations, particularly those that are widely geographically dispersed (Thomas,
2020).

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Instrument
Researchers in this study believe that a survey is the best medium or instrument for
gathering data for the study. In surveys, researchers use questionnaires to collect
information from respondents. A questionnaire is a series of questions intended to elicit
useful information from respondents. Questionnaires may contain open-ended or closed-
ended questions, or a combination of the two. Respondents can respond in their own
words or in as little detail as they want with open-ended questions. Closed-ended
questions offer respondents a predetermined set of responses from which to choose.
(Cint, 2022).

The researchers will input questions about the impact of health and safety
protocols on students learning and well-being. The researcher’s goal here is to determine
the adherence of students to the health and safety protocols and its impact on students
learning and well-being.

Data Gathering Procedure

After the validation of the instruments, permission and approval were requested
from the principals, teachers, and students. Furthermore, the researchers used English
language so that the respondents can easily understand the questionnaire. The survey will
be given to them via face-to-face distribution using hard copies.

To maintain the respondents privacy, any information collected about an

individual should be handled with care through paper documentations and secure storage.
To avoid the failure to properly handled the research information, the responds should be
properly documented and stored and the information provided by a research participant
should never be changed or altered.

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