SYNTHESIS OF THE CONDUCTED 3rd DEPED BICOL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
ON K TO 12 SCHOOLING
Naga Regent Hotel, Naga City, Philippines
November 30-December 2, 2011
In-behalf of Dr. Marilette R. Almayda, Assistant Schools Division Superintendent of Albay Division, as she is attending an equally important undertaking today, she texted me to do the task for her in giving the synthesis of the conducted DepED Bicol Research Conference on K to 12 Schooling from November 30-December 2, 2011, at Naga Regent Hotel, Naga City.
The Opening Program which was graced by Hon. Yolanda S. Quijano, Undersecretary for Programs and Projects, our Regional & Assistant Regional Directors respectively, Dir. Orfelina O. Tuy and Dir. Diosdado M. San Antonio, the officers and members of the Bicol Association of Schools Superintendents (BASS) headed by Dr. Emma Cornejo as the President, the mayor of Naga City, John G. Bongat, started on time, at 1:30 PM. The presence of everyone was properly acknowledged and it was noted that there were many who had their on site registration or there were walk-in participants thereby exceeding the expected number of participants.
On the Resource Speakers:
During the opening program on Day 1, the keynote address of Undersecretary Yolanda Quijano on the theme of the Conference, “Educational Research: A Tool for Reflective Professional Practice” has opened pathways in the minds of everyone to go into research, to produce and multiply researches as she put emphasis on several fields in Educational Research such as 1.) Teaching Second Language Learners; 2.) Measurement of Achievement and Self-Concept; 3.)Biological Basis of Language and Cognition; 4.)Public School Finance; and 5.) Post Secondary and Life-Long Learning Outcomes..She further emphasized that we don’t need to go to other places just to find a research problem or look for a researchable topic because right there in our own respective backyards, in our school campuses, in our own offices we can find a workable topic for research.
On Day 2, The talk of Dr. Yolanda I. Castroverde on Data Management and Analysis has given the participants a refreshing recollection of their Statistics lessons both in the Undergraduate and Graduate classes, as emphasized by Dr. Castroverde that the data gathered won’t become a usable information unless we apply statistics with corresponding interpretations and implications. She further stressed that a researcher must consider the following in utilizing statistical tools such as 1.) Knowledge of the subject matter; 2.) capability to organize data; 3.) effective data presentation with some knowledge of the mathematical theory of statistics; and 4.) acquainted with a variety of statistical techniques, its advantages and limitations…Moreover, different research studies require different statistical tools, as a specific study requires specific statistical tool to be used.. as Dr. Castroverde said that there is no master key that can open several doors.
In the morning of day 3, Dr. Lily P. Custodio, the speaker on the Trends in Research Approaches in Education has also given emphasis on some samples of topics for Educational research in which the same key points stressed out by USEC Quijano on day 1, Dr, Custodio emphasized that we can conduct research on the following areas: 1.) Drop-out of students; 2.) Absenteeism of students; 3.) Turn-over of teachers; 4.) Assessment of Curricuclar Programs; 5.) Performance of students across disciplines; and 6.) Performance of students in Regional and National Examinations. Applying the four (4) approaches in Educational Research such as the a.) Qualitative approach; b.) Quantitative; c.) Quanti-Quali/Quali-Quanti and the d.) Triangulation approach will surely lessen the problem in educational system particularly in our own respective stations.
On paper presentation:
The paper presentation was conducted in four venues from the afternoon of day 1 till morning of Day 3 with a total of 16 sessions with the Schools Divisions Superintendents as the session managers assisted by the NEAP-Bicol staff as the assistant session managers. Research studies where clustered into strands as assigned in each session venue such as School Based Management, Mother-Tongue Based Multi Lingual Education (MTB-MLE); Science; Mathematics; Reading; Information Technology (IT); Filipino; School Performance and Student’s Achievement.
Seven (7) out of 16 Schools Superintendents who were assigned to be the session managers were not able to make it due to their attendance to other equally important concerns, thus, the assigned assistant session managers took their place & sought the assistance of Education Supervisors from the Division Offices to be the assistant session managers.
Two (2) of the 56 research studies submitted for oral presentation were not presented due to inattendance of the author-researchers. There were 39 research proposals submitted and 39 or (100%) were actually presented through posters.
Significant Findings in the 4 venues composed of 16 sessions from Day 1-3, taken from the narrative reports of the assistant session managers:
Ø All materials and paraphernalia in each session venue were made available before the start of the session;
Ø Presenters were all prepared and ready with their presentation on the scheduled time except one (1) incidence of Presenter’s powerpoint presentation which had technical errors;
Ø Sensible questions were asked by the participants to the presenters;
Ø All of the presentations were time-bound, however, a number of presenters exceeded the time allotment but their presentations were cut to observe proper time management, thus the time for every paper presentation and for the open forum in the 4 venues was strictly followed;
Ø Some presenters have their Slides/powerpoint presentation which were too detailed, the whole paragraph was placed in a slide;
Ø Commendations and suggestions were given politely by the participants to the presenters;
Ø Prescriptive comments to the presenter from attendees still present;
Ø few participants were noted to have raised questions that tend to make the presenter feel embarrassed; some of the questions were trafficked by the session managers so as not to offend the presenter;
Ø Issues raised by the participants were satisfactorily attended to and addressed by the presenters;
Ø There was a maximum participation of the attendees by which the 10-minute allotted time was not enough to accommodate all the questions; and
Ø Of the 16 sessions conducted in 4 venues from day 1 to 3, the average number of participants per venue is 78 out of the 100 expected participants per venue, perhaps the participants just failed to sign in the attendance sheets or they went to somewhere else.
Implications:
Ø Capability building on the preparation of powerpoint presentations;
Ø Longer time for presentations;
Ø Open-forum needs more time;
Ø Give orientation or session to the presenters as well as to the audience /participants before the research forum, on the proper giving & receiving feedbacks; and
Ø The interactions and sharing of research experiences manifested by the participants during the session spelled out their engagement in this research endeavor.
On the Results of Research Paper Evaluation:
Three (3) research papers were chosen from the 21 pre-screened papers of the completed research, ranked as 1st, 2nd and 3rd adjudged by the competent authorities in research in Bicol Region. Likewise, three winners shall be awarded from the 37 research proposals presented through posters, (note: for the information of everybody, the NEAP-Bicol and SED in the Regional Office has submitted also research proposals but they are in a non-competing category thus our posters were not included in judging, of the 39 research proposals, only the 37 were judged).
Going back to the conference objectives given in day 1:
1.) To showcase the educational research initiatives in DepED-Bicol;
2.) To recognize best educational research projects undertaken;
3.) To update participants on new research techniques and trends; and
4.) To Provide a forum for enhancing the skills of Bicol Educational researchers.
With all those things undertaken in the past 3days, we can boldly say that said objectives of the research conference have been achieved by 100%.
Prepared by:
JOCELYN O. DY
EPS, NEAP-B
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