APJMR Vol. 3 No. 5 (Part III) by Fitzgerald Fabelico
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts & Sciences, Sep 4, 2014
This study investigates the effects of social interaction and ability grouping on students' metac... more This study investigates the effects of social interaction and ability grouping on students' metacognitive experiences in stoichiometric problem solving. The social and educational dimensions of social interactions are particularly investigated in this paper. The educational dimension of social interaction includes ability grouping while the social dimension comprises metacognitive functions and transactive structures. Metacognitive functions include the generation of New Idea and the Assessments of strategy, results, and understanding. Transactive structures involve self-disclosure, feedback request, and other monitoring responses. Students' metacognitive experiences include feelings of liking, difficulty, confidence, satisfaction, and estimates of time, effort, and solution correctness. This descriptive study employed both the quantitative and qualitative methods. The results showed that students' metacognitive functions and transactive structures vary across ability groups. Moreover, metacognitive functions and transactive structures showed a weak degree of association with ability grouping. Students' metacognitive experiences like feelings of liking, difficulty, confidence, satisfaction, and estimates of time, effort, and solution correctness vary across ability groups. Although metacognitive functions and transactive structures affect quantitatively students' metacognitive experiences in solving stoichiometry problems, the effect does not vary across ability groups. However, it is important to note that other monitoring transactive structure influences students' feeling of difficulty and estimate of effort in solving chemistry tasks across ability groups.
Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2015
Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are potential biocontrol agents against agricultural pests and insec... more Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are potential biocontrol agents against agricultural pests and insects. These fungi are also known to be a source of secondary metabolites and could be a potential source of antibiotic drugs in the future. This study aims to determine the phytochemical and antimicrobial properties of EPF isolated from different host insects and their larvae in the province of Nueva Vizcaya. The method employed in this study includes the collection of EPF from dead insects and their larvae, isolation and mass production of the fungi, identification of the different fungi, extraction of secondary metabolites from the fungi, phytochemical screening, and antimicrobial assay. The results revealed that the antimicrobial properties of the different EPF could be explained by their phytochemical properties.When compared to the positive control, the significantly high antifungal activities of the Pandora neoaphidis (EPF 1) against the Candida albicans can be due to the presence of sterols. Conversely, the significantly high antibacterial activities of Beauveria alba (EPF 5) against Bacillus subtilis could be due to the presence of steroids, triterpenoids, glycosides, and fatty acids.These findings indicate that entomopathogenic fungi could be a potential source of antibiotic drugs against pathogenic microorganism in the near future. To realize this, future research is highly recommended for the isolation, elucidation, and evaluation of the safety of the bioactive compounds of entomopathogenic fungi responsible for the antimicrobial activities, prior to their use in humans.
Papers by Fitzgerald Fabelico
This paper investigates the effects of social interaction, grouping, and type of chemistry tasks ... more This paper investigates the effects of social interaction, grouping, and type of chemistry tasks on students metacognitive experiences in stoichiometric problem solving. This study is anchored on Vygotskys zone of proximal development. This paper studies the educational dimension of social interaction like ability grouping and chemistry tasks and the social dimension of social interaction like metacognitive functions, transactive structures, and collaborative metacognitive activity. This descriptive study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The participants are the freshmen BS-Nursing students of Saint Marys University, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya who are enrolled in the first semester of SY 2007- 2008. The conclusions of this study are as follows: students metacognitive functions, transactive structures, collaborative metacognitive activity, and metacognitive experiences vary across ability and chemistry tasks. Moreover, metacognitive functions and transactive structur...
This study develops and evaluates a Guided Inquiry laboratory manual for high school chemistry.Th... more This study develops and evaluates a Guided Inquiry laboratory manual for high school chemistry.The One-group pretest-posttest design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed laboratory manual. The samples for this study were two intact groups of third year students from the science and non-science oriented sections of Saint Mary\u27s University High School Department (SMUHS), Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.The research process involved the following stages: preparation, development, evaluation by experts, experimental stage, and final stage. The instruments used in this study were as follows: evaluation questionnaires for chemistry experts, evaluation questionnaires for students, Saint Mary\u27s University-Watson & Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (SMU-WGCTA), and chemistry achievement test. The statistical treatment employed in this study were descriptive statistics, t-test for paired observation, and the Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA).The results of the study revealed the following: 1) laboratory experiments designed as a guided inquiry format are useful and relevant, comprehensive, have appropriate instructions and can generate students\u27 interests 2) Guided Inquiry experiments and the traditional verification experiments have comparable effects on the development of the critical thinking skills of students when used over similarly short duration of exposure or time 3) students exposed to Guided Inquiry experiments could score significantly higher in a chemistry achievement test compared with those exposed to the traditional verification experiments and 4) science oriented students exposed to the Guided Inquiry experiments could achieve higher score in a chemistry achievement test compared with non-science oriented students
Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are potential biocontrol agents against agricultural pests and insec... more Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are potential biocontrol agents against agricultural pests and insects. These fungi are also known to be a source of secondary metabolites and could be a potential source of antibiotic drugs in the future. This study aims to determine the phytochemical and antimicrobial properties of EPF isolated from different host insects and their larvae in the province of Nueva Vizcaya. The method employed in this study includes the collection of EPF from dead insects and their larvae, isolation and mass production of the fungi, identification of the different fungi, extraction of secondary metabolites from the fungi, phytochemical screening, and antimicrobial assay. The results revealed that the antimicrobial properties of the different EPF could be explained by their phytochemical properties.When compared to the positive control, the significantly high antifungal activities of the Pandora neoaphidis (EPF 1) against the Candida albicans can be due to the presence of...
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews
Purpose of the study: This study investigates the effect of collaborative metacognitive activitie... more Purpose of the study: This study investigates the effect of collaborative metacognitive activities (CMA) on students’ socially motivated metacognitive experiences (SMME) during stoichiometric problem-solving. Methodology: This descriptive research employed mixed methods. To document and analyze students’ CMA, dual coding process, discourse analysis, and social network analyses were used. There were 18 participants selected purposively and grouped homogeneously based on their academic ability. Main Findings: The findings revealed that CMA affects students’ SMME quantitatively in stoichiometric problem-solving across ability groups and chemistry tasks. Successful collaboration occurs when feedback requests and other monitoring responses on the assessment of understanding and strategy influences students’ estimates of solution correctness and feeling of satisfaction across ability groups and affects the feeling of difficulty across chemistry tasks. Applications of this study: This stud...
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews
Purpose of the study: This study ascertained the classroom management practices of teachers and t... more Purpose of the study: This study ascertained the classroom management practices of teachers and their relationship to the academic performance of college students of a state university in the Philippines. Methodology: As a correlational study, 317 randomly selected senior college students served as respondents. A survey questionnaire was used to determine the level of teachers’ classroom management practices. The Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of the students constitute their academic performance. Frequency, percentage, mean, and Pearson r were used to analyse gathered data statistically. Main Findings: When the teachers give priority to the physical classroom condition, the students tend to feel relaxed and comfortable, thereby displaying a higher level of academic performance. Further, students performed better when the teachers positively reinforced their responses. Furthermore, the students’ better performance in their educational undertakings is linked with teachers’ adeptness in ...
Journal of critical reviews
Becoming a teacher is a complex practice, full of challenges and excitement. It begins with the m... more Becoming a teacher is a complex practice, full of challenges and excitement. It begins with the many early encounters one has with his significant others, and continues as he observes teachers through the structured instruction in the classroom. It completes with specialized training and teaching experiences for those who choose teaching as a vocation to last a lifetime. Training immersion offers resources for pre-service teachers where they can conduct their coaching and teaching skills. This research thus identified the impact of pedagogical competence on the teaching effectiveness of a State University's pre-service teachers in the Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. This work was conducted for three consecutive years at a Teacher Education Institution (TEI) and Department of Education ( DepEd), as a descriptive-inferential sample. Descriptive statistics were used to define the descriptive targets, while inferential statistics such as t-test, F-test, and correlation procedures were used to determine the relationship between the variables and between them. The study found that teachers on pre-service regularly demonstrated a very high degree of pedagogical ability. Their teaching performance has varied significantly from each other in the past three academic years. They appeared to manifest poor teaching efficiency when the pre-service teachers displayed a low awareness order. Consequently, they continue to show outstanding teaching efficiency when the pre-service teachers demonstrated a high knowledge order. The outstanding teaching performance of pre-service teachers is distinguished by their possession of a high degree of pedagogical competence.
Journal of critical reviews
Teachers are the prime movers in changing the state of any nation towards globalization and indus... more Teachers are the prime movers in changing the state of any nation towards globalization and industrialization. However, perseverance and passion in the teaching profession influences teachersÂ’ performance. This research was conducted to examine the inter-relationships between and between variables such as teacher characteristics, motivation , self-efficacy, burnout, and performance to create a model that explains teacher success.This descriptive correlation study utilized the Short Grit Scale, Norwegian Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory for Teachers, and the NBC 461 QCE instruments to gather data. The respondents were the faculty members of a state university in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. This study found that teachers have high rates of self-efficiency, moderate levels of burnout, and very satisfactory teaching results, regardless of age , gender, marital status, number of dependents, educational attainment, length of service, teaching status, and academic rank. The level of teachersÂ’ grit, self-efficacy, and performance are comparable across teachersÂ’ characteristics while the level of teachersÂ’ burnout varies with the number of dependents. Grit is positively related to educational attainment while burnout is negatively related to the number of dependents. Grit and self-efficacy showed significant positive relationship with each other. While teacher performance is independent of grit, self-efficacy and burnout, teacher performance is best predicted by knowledge of the subject matter and management of learning. Future research should validate the proposed model on a wider scale to include other variables.
The Saurauia subglabra Merr. locally known as dagwey is an endemic plant of Nueva Vizcaya, Philip... more The Saurauia subglabra Merr. locally known as dagwey is an endemic plant of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. This plant was not studied extensively as to its pharmaceutical, cosmeceutial, and nutraceutical value. Consequently, this analysis was carried out to establish the dagwey's phytochemical, antioxidant, cytotoxic and antimicrobial properties. The procedure used includes sampling and preparation, phytochemical screening, calculation of total phenolic material, radical scavenging activity of DPPH, median inhibitory concentration, lethality assay of brine shrimp, and antimicrobial assay. The results showed that anthraquinones, coumarines, essential oils, flavonoids , phenols and triterpenes were present in the dagwey. The dagwey fruit had a higher phenolic content than the leaves but the leaves had a higher level of radical scavenging and antioxidant than the fruit. Interestingly, the dagwey displayed increased cytotoxic activity against brine shrimps. Results also revealed that t...
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
School heads are agents of change who contribute a major impression on the educational milieu thr... more School heads are agents of change who contribute a major impression on the educational milieu through their information-sharing methods, creating supportive social connections, participating in mentoring programs, and fostering progress. This study was undertaken to ascertain the interrelation between the public school head’s leadership practices and teachers’ performance. As correlation research, simple random sampling was used to calculate the sample size for teacher-respondents, while total enumeration was used for school heads. A structured questionnaire was developed to gather the necessary information that reinforced the theme of this analysis. Weighted mean was used to ascertain the level of leadership practices of school heads and the level of teacher performance. T-test, F-test, Post-hoc test, and Pearson r were employed to establish the degree to which different variables are related to each other. The study found that the variation in leadership practices experienced by s...
Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are potential biocontrol agents against agricultural pests and insec... more Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are potential biocontrol agents against agricultural pests and insects. These fungi are also known to be a source of secondary metabolites and could be a potential source of antibiotic drugs in the future. This study aims to determine the phytochemical and antimicrobial properties of EPF isolated from different host insects and their larvae in the province of Nueva Vizcaya. The method employed in this study includes the collection of EPF from dead insects and their larvae, isolation and mass production of the fungi, identification of the different fungi, extraction of secondary metabolites from the fungi, phytochemical screening, and antimicrobial assay. The results revealed that the antimicrobial properties of the different EPF could be explained by their phytochemical properties.When compared to the positive control, the significantly high antifungal activities of the Pandora neoaphidis (EPF 1) against the Candida albicans can be due to the presence of...
Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020
Becoming a teacher is a diverse preparation full of excitement and challenges. It begins with the... more Becoming a teacher is a diverse preparation full of excitement and challenges. It begins with the many early experiences one has with his significant others and carries on as he observes teachers through the formal classroom instruction. It completes with specialized training and teaching experiences that last a lifetime for those who choose teaching as a vocation. Teaching immersion provides pre-service teachers with opportunities where they can execute their instructional competence and teaching skills. Hence, this research ascertained the influence of pedagogical competence on the teaching efficiency of pre-service teachers of a State University in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. As a descriptive-inferential study, this research was conducted at a Teacher Education Institution (TEI) and the Department of Education (DepEd) for three consecutive school years. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the descriptive objectives while inferential statistics such as t-test, F-t...
Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020
Teachers are the prime movers in changing the state of any nation towards globalization and indus... more Teachers are the prime movers in changing the state of any nation towards globalization and industrialization. However, perseverance and passion in the teaching profession influences teachers’ performance. This study was conducted to investigate the interrelationships between and among the variables such as teachers’ characteristics, grit, self-efficacy, burnout, and performance to establish a model that explains teacher performance. This descriptive correlation study utilized the Short Grit Scale, Norwegian Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory for Teachers, and the NBC 461 QCE instruments to gather data. The respondents were the faculty members of a state university in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. This study exposed that the teachers have high levels of grit and self-efficacy, moderate level of burnout, and very satisfactory teaching performance regardless of age, gender, civil status, number of dependents, educational attainment, length of service, teachin...
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 2020
Purpose of the study: This study investigates the effect of collaborative metacognitive activitie... more Purpose of the study: This study investigates the effect of collaborative metacognitive activities (CMA) on students' socially motivated metacognitive experiences (SMME) during stoichiometric problem-solving. Methodology: This descriptive research employed mixed methods. To document and analyze students' CMA, dual coding process, discourse analysis, and social network analyses were used. There were 18 participants selected purposively and grouped homogeneously based on their academic ability. Main Findings: The findings revealed that CMA affects students' SMME quantitatively in stoichiometric problem-solving across ability groups and chemistry tasks. Successful collaboration occurs when feedback requests and other monitoring responses on the assessment of understanding and strategy influences students' estimates of solution correctness and feeling of satisfaction across ability groups and affects the feeling of difficulty across chemistry tasks. Applications of this study: This study will help teachers design student activities that could capitalize on the advantages of collaborative metacognitive activities to help students achieve successful collaboration during problem-solving activities not only in chemistry but also in the allied fields. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study explains clearly the relevance of CMA and SMME during stoichiometric problem-solving. Moreover, this study elucidated the mechanism of successful and unsuccessful collaboration used by the different groups of students in solving the algorithmic and conceptual chemistry tasks.
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 2020
Purpose of the study: This study ascertained the classroom management practices of teachers and t... more Purpose of the study: This study ascertained the classroom management practices of teachers and their relationship to the academic performance of college students of a state university in the Philippines. Methodology: As a correlational study, 317 randomly selected senior college students served as respondents. A survey questionnaire was used to determine the level of teachers' classroom management practices. The Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of the students constitute their academic performance. Frequency, percentage, mean, and Pearson r were used to analyse gathered data statistically. Main Findings: When the teachers give priority to the physical classroom condition, the students tend to feel relaxed and comfortable, thereby displaying a higher level of academic performance. Further, students performed better when the teachers positively reinforced their responses. Furthermore, the students' better performance in their educational undertakings is linked with teachers' adeptness in time management. Applications of this study: To further improve the academic performance of students, teachers may strengthen the teaching-learning process through the following provisions: inspiring classroom setups, classroom enhancement programs (peer teaching, remedial and tutorial programs), appropriate educative measures and proper allocation of time. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study provides verifications that some aspects of classroom management such as physical condition, discipline, and time management are significantly linked to students' academic success.
Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020
Becoming a teacher is a complex practice, full of challenges and excitement. It begins with the m... more Becoming a teacher is a complex practice, full of challenges and excitement. It begins with the many early encounters one has with his significant others, and continues as he observes teachers through the structured instruction in the classroom. It completes with specialized training and teaching experiences for those who choose teaching as a vocation to last a lifetime. Training immersion offers resources for pre-service teachers where they can conduct their coaching and teaching skills. This research thus identified the impact of pedagogical competence on the teaching effectiveness of a State University's pre-service teachers in the Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. This work was conducted for three consecutive years at a Teacher Education Institution (TEI) and Department of Education (DepEd), as a descriptive-inferential sample. Descriptive statistics were used to define the descriptive targets, while inferential statistics such as t-test, F-test, and correlation procedures were used to determine the relationship between the variables and between them. The study found that teachers on pre-service regularly demonstrated a very high degree of pedagogical ability. Their teaching performance has varied significantly from each other in the past three academic years. They appeared to manifest poor teaching efficiency when the pre-service teachers displayed a low awareness order. Consequently, they continue to show outstanding teaching efficiency when the pre-service teachers demonstrated a high knowledge order. The outstanding teaching performance of pre-service teachers is distinguished by their possession of a high degree of pedagogical competence.
Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020
Teachers are the prime movers in changing the state of any nation towards globalization and indus... more Teachers are the prime movers in changing the state of any nation towards globalization and industrialization. However, perseverance and passion in the teaching profession influences teachers' performance. This research was conducted to examine the interrelationships between and between variables such as teacher characteristics, motivation , self-efficacy, burnout, and performance to create a model that explains teacher success.This descriptive correlation study utilized the Short Grit Scale, Norwegian Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory for Teachers, and the NBC 461 QCE instruments to gather data. The respondents were the faculty members of a state university in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. This study found that teachers have high rates of self-efficiency, moderate levels of burnout, and very satisfactory teaching results, regardless of age , gender, marital status, number of dependents, educational attainment, length of service, teaching status, and academic rank. The level of teachers' grit, self-efficacy, and performance are comparable across teachers' characteristics while the level of teachers' burnout varies with the number of dependents. Grit is positively related to educational attainment while burnout is negatively related to the number of dependents. Grit and self-efficacy showed significant positive relationship with each other. While teacher performance is independent of grit, self-efficacy and burnout, teacher performance is best predicted by knowledge of the subject matter and management of learning. Future research should validate the proposed model on a wider scale to include other variables.
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APJMR Vol. 3 No. 5 (Part III) by Fitzgerald Fabelico
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