Master's Theses
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Item Experiences of teachers engaging in research activitiesBlanco, Maria Rhodalyn P. (Davao del Sur State College, 2025-02)This qualitative phenomenological study aims to tell the story of ten (10) educators' research experiences and practices with the goal of bettering the teaching-learning process through research. The study seeks to uncover the lived experiences, coping mechanisms, and insights of public school teachers through semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. It is centered around the researcher's focus on teacher-researchers and how they apply research in their teaching-learning process. The underlying topics for study question number one which defined the teachers' lived experiences were as follows: research struggles and research impact, financial constraints, time constraints, difficulties in data gathering and implications in actual classroom. For research question number two, emphasized the coping strategies adopted by teacher-researchers in addressing the challenges they have encountered, despite the hurdles, they were able to efficiently improve their pupils' learning experiences. The following were the underlying themes for research question number two: Employing adaptive strategies and embodying resilient qualities with the subtheme of: Time management, asking support, proactivity, resourcefulness, patience, and persistence. Finally, research question number three discusses teachers' insights. These were the major themes that arise in the process of the results: Exploration and Growth and Mindfulness and Perseverance with the subthemes of: curiosity and effort, professional development, process familiarity, optimism, dedication and cognizance. Educational institutions may offer personalized training programs to meet the specific demands of research education, support pedagogical flexibility by providing teachers with a variety of research methodologies and involve to professional growth by enrolling themselves to research schools and universities.Item Assessing school success through the 2020 global education frameworkSalasain, Lyca Fea P. (Davao del Sur State College, 2025-06)In light of the OECD's "A Framework to Guiding and Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020", this research aims to investigate various stakeholders' views on academic achievement. A mixed-method research design was adapted from Ivankova and Creswell (2009) and in quantitative data used mean and standard deviation to know the level of school success. The results showed that school heads, teachers' leagues, SPTA officers, and SPG officers achieved a very level of success in 2020 Global Education in terms of the following areas: technical infrastructure availability; student emotional health; finding a balance between screen-free and digital activities; parental support for learning at home; effective communication with parents to coordinate learning-based curricula; and teachers' ability or willingness to adapt to situational changes. The themes that emerged were the following: mental awareness, technology, and instructional aid devices, curriculum assessment, and community engagement for the school heads. Themes on adaptive teachers and community collaboration, technology, managing technology, digital expertise, curriculum development and evaluation and assessment, and community involvement for the teachers. Physical resources, technology and parents' intervention, lesson planning and teachers' professional growth, assessment results, full support from parents to learners for the SPTA Officers and sustainable learning resources, safe physical learning environment, parental involvement, and students' engagement, reading assessment results and support system for the SPGs Officers.