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Efficiency of Schoology in Facilitating Student- Centered Learning:
Evidence- based Teachers’ Evaluation of Distance Education
Program of Rosario Institute, 2021
A Research Presented to the
Senior High School Department of
ROSARIO INSTITUTE
In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements
for the PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2
S. Y. 2021 – 2022
SUBMITTED TO:
Mr. Eric Ryan C. Talactac
SUBMITTED BY:
Crisostomo, Jame Ilya G.
Delos Santos, Mary Rose G.
Ferrer, Elyza Mae G.
Ocampo, Alyssa Irah A.
Padojinog, Herbia Mae B.
Rivera, Christian Jay M.
Segovia, Justin Dave
March 2021
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Efficiency of Schoology in Facilitating Student- Centered Learning:
Evidence- based Teachers’ Evaluation of Distance Education
Program of Rosario Institute, 2021
The coronavirus has had a profound impact on the teaching and learning of the
student. The Department of Health and the Department of Education comes up with the
decision to make the traditional learning change to online learning for the health safety of
everyone.
Schoology is a free e-learning program categorized into Social Learning
Networks (SLNs) gaining popularity among teachers (Low, 2017). It is a learning
management system in which the design is parallel to Facebook where students and
teachers are given chance to have a conversation, update status and information, or
share other media in a user-friendly and secure environment (Sicat, 2015). They can
discuss in Schoology anytime and anywhere through the posting of comments or
responses or private messages. The teachers can also give online assignment and
assessment, instant feedback that can track the document workflow and badges, see
the student`s grade book and attendance, add the material, maintain the class calendar,
collect a few resources, join a group or two within the application, and post the personal
blog. Schoology also offers the parents account to update with the activity of their
children and school event. The Schoology is a web based tool that allows students,
teachers, and district staff to network efficiently. The site, created in 2009, has the feel of
“Facebook", but Schoology has managed to incorporate attendance, student
assignments, grades and homework features (Angela, 2013).
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Student-centered learning engages students in their own success and
incorporates their interests and skills into the learning process. Rather than having
educators hand down information, students can engage with teachers and their peers in
real-time, preparing them to participate in a skilled workforce later in life. Student-
centered approaches to learning highlight four key tenets that work in concert with each
other: learning is personalized; learning is competency-based; learning happens
anytime, anywhere; and students take ownership of their learning. (Nellie Mae Education
Foundation, 2020).
Therefore, the researcher would like to identify the teacher’s evaluation of the
efficiency of Schoology in facilitating student-centered learning as their Learning
Management System that Rosario Institute offers.
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Statement of the Problem
This study primarily focuses on evaluating the efficiency of Learning
Management System in facilitating student-centered learning in light of the
implementation of distance education offered by Rosario Institute for Academic Year
2020-2021. The institution offers online learning through the use of Schoology LMS as
the main platform to provide learning materials to students.
The following research questions will help guide the study towards it focus:
1. What is the attitude and comfort of teachers in using Schoology as LMS?
a. Effort expectancy
b. Attitude towards using Schoology
c. Anxiety in using Schoology
2. To what extent teachers see students are in control of their own learning while
using Schoology?
3. How teachers perceived the effectiveness of Schoology in student’s achievement
of the learning targets and learning skills development?
4. How Schoology can help students to develop growth mind set values for
independent learning?
5. What are the features of Schoology that can help students to take control of their
learning by getting exposure to feedback mechanisms?
Scopes and Limitations of the Study
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The study will see the efficiency of Schoology by facilitating student-centered
learning by the teacher`s evaluation. The researchers gather data from the fourty four
teachers in Rosario Institute. This study will focus to the Schoology as the Learning
Management System that Rosario Institute uses to offer online learning.
Significance of the Study
The significance of the study is to know the Efficiency of Schoology in Facilitating
Student-centered Learning by the Teacher’s evaluation. This study will help the
teacher`s to easily give the school works that students need.
This study will also help the researchers to gain more knowledge and ideas
about the efficiency of Schoology as their Learning Management System.
This study will be helpful for the future researchers as they plan to make a
research study that is related to the topic, the information presented maybe used to gain
more knowledge about the efficiency of Schoology in facilitating student-centered
learning.
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Conceptual Framework
The Efficiency of Learning
Management System in
Facilitating Student
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Growth Characteristic
Mindset Values of Method for
of Student Learning
Agency
Learner-focused
Attitude and Multiple Data
Facilitation of
Comfort of Points to support
learning object
Teachers Student Agency
under investigation
Anxiety Effort Attitude
Figure 1.
Acquiring The Efficiency of Learning Management System in facilitating student Data
is to collect the Characteristic of Method for Learning, Multiple Data Points, to support
Student Agency, Learner-focused Facilitation of Learning object under investigation and
Attitude and Comfort of Teachers. Data of Attitude and Comfort of Teachers can be based on
Anxiety, Effort and Attitude.
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To better understand this research, the definition of terms will help them
understand the meaning of each word:
Evaluation. Is process by which a certain topic is going through assessment.
Schoology. A type of application that aims to bring access to different courses
and accessible to students, teachers as well as the parents.
Asynchronous. Refers to education and learning that does not occur within the
same time.
Tenet. Is the principles of the doctrin held in common and believed to be true by
the members of organization or a group.
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Review of Related Literature
Foreign Literature
SCHOOLOGY
Schoology serves two great benefits in the case of academic information
exchange and interactive communication that enable teacher to upload material,
discussion question, feedback, and assignment and possibly students to access them,
as well as to ask question and to give comments on the students’ work (Zainnuri and
Cahyaningrum,2017). Schoology can be an innovative media in teaching writing that can
enhance students’ writing skills. Students can improve their writing and knowledge
through this interesting media from the class instruction and from cooperative learning in
which they can help each other. Further, this integrated instruction results in enhancing
their motivation and interest in learning (Sicat, 2015). Schoology can increase interaction
between the teacher and students anytime and everywhere, increase motivation, and
create an effective learning and environment (Low, 2017).
STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING
Student-centered learning emphasizes the active role of students and their
ownership of learning, which increases the opportunities for developing critical thinking
and problem-solving skills (Brush and Saye, 2002; Savery and Duffy,1995). This
approach allows students to construct knowledge by gathering, synthesizing, and
integrating information and often they work as a group to do this (Huba & Freed, 2000).
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LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
A learning management system (LMS) is a web-based application capable of
transforming face-to-face sessions by offering students a space for online learning
(Wichadee, 2015). LMS`s offer many tools such as online group chats ,discussion
threads, video conferencing ,lecture materials, learning modules grading, and course
evaluation , all of which may be customized to suit specific instructional needs (Fathema
et al.,2015; Walker et al.,2016). Some of the benefits provided by a LMS include
organized course content, enhance student engangement, improved Autonomy among
learners, convenient submission of requirements and immediate feedback (Adzharuddin
et al., 2013; Cavus, 2015; Alenezi, 2018)
LOCAL LITERATURE
Student-centered learning is a system of instruction that places the student in its
heart. It is teaching the facilitates active participation and independent inquiry, and seeks
to instill among students the joy of learning inside and outside the classroom.
Student-centered learning sees the students as synthesizing new learnings and making
new meanings based on prior knowledge, experiences, mental structures, and beliefs.
The goal of instructions in a student-centered learning environment are problem-solving,
reasoning, critical thinking, and the active use of knowledge. (Ang,R.P;Santos,B.S.,PHD
et al (2001)
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SYNTHESIS
As said by Zainnuri and Cahyaningrum (2017) that Schoology serves two great
benefits to the teachers and students. Teachers can interact virtually with the student
through discussion, assignments and can give comments on the student's work. Sicat
(2015) stated that Schoology can help students to improve their writing skills and
knowledge. Brush, Saye, Savery, and Duffy (1995) knew that student-centered learning
is an active role of students that can help to develop critical thinking and problem-solving
skills. Student-centered learning is the approach where the student’s study by
themselves independently. The Schoology is an example of the Learning Management
System. Wichadee (2015) said that LMS or learning management system can transform
the traditional learning or the face-to-face sessions into online learning.
Methodology
This chapter will discuss the overall approach and the research design of the
study, the research participants and the sampling procedures, the data collection
methods and the statistical analysis of data.
Research Design
This research will be done by using a survey through descriptive quantitative
approach. According to Polland (1998), in order to get an accurate measurement of such
items, surveys can be used to identify phenomena and summarize them. In this study,
the goal will focus on evaluating the efficiency of Learning Management System in
facilitating student-centered learning in light of the implementation of distance education
offered by Rosario Institute for Academic Year 2020-2021 as the institution offers online
learning through the use of Schoology LMS as the main platform to provide learning
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materials to students. The overall comfort and attitude of the teachers towards the use of
Schoology in facilitating student- centered learning will be described through numerical
approach based on the mean average scores of the response from the teachers.
Population and Sampling
The study will collect and gather data through survey among teachers of Rosario
Institute. The population is composed of 44 teaching personnel from the Elementary,
Junior High School and Senior High School department of the institution. No sampling
method will be used since the participants of the study will be the totality of the
population.
Data Collection Procedures
This study is part of a broader effort meant to measure the overall performance
and efficiency of the implementation of the distance education for Academic Year 2020-
2021. The institution adapts online distance learning through the use of Schoology
Learning Management System as the main platform for delivering asynchronous
learning activities to the students (The Rosarian, 2020).To determine the overall
perception of the teachers in the use of Schoology to facilitate student- centered
learning, online survey questionnaire through Google Forms will be used. The use of
electronic survey is least intrusive method to collect all the data needed from the
teachers since on site data collection is limited due to the onset of the COVID- 19
pandemic.
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Research Instrument
To evaluate the teachers’ perception towards the efficiency of Schoology in
facilitating student- centered learning, the study will use the Teacher Survey Crosswalk
adapted from the assessment tools provided by the National Skills Development
Corporation (2020). Some modifications are made to appropriately consider that the
main variable being evaluated is the Schoology LMS and how it helps teachers in
facilitating student- centered learning.
The research questionnaire is composed of three sections on which the last two
sections contains 30 questions to determine the overall perception of the teachers in the
use of Schoology in facilitating student- centered learning .
The first section contains prompts that will ask for the demographic profile of the
teachers including their age, gender, subjects and grade levels taught and the number of
years teaching in the institution.
The second section focuses on asking teachers about their overall perception on
how much effort they exert on using Schoology, their attitudes towards the LMS and
some questions to measure difficulties they encounter on the use of Schoology. Five-
point Likert Scale is used to measure the perception of the teachers on their comfort and
attitude in the use of Schoology (Table 1).
Table 1
Numerical and Descriptive Value of the Responses for Teacher Comfort and Attitude
Using Schoology
Numerical Value Descriptive Value
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1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
The last section contains questions with multiple options that will ask teachers
what Schoology features are helpful for them in facilitating student- centered learning on
the conduct of online distance education.
Statistical Treatment of Data
For the questions in the survey questionnaire, the weighted mean formula will be
employed to calculate the mean of each question in the Teacher Comfort and Attitude in
Schoology Use for Facilitating Student- centered Learning Survey
Formula:
∑f (x)
x́=
n
Where:
x́=Mean Score
f =Number of responses
n=Sample ¿¿
The mean scores of responses for each survey question will be process through
calculations. Table 2 below shows the numerical value as well as the descriptive
equivalent of the mean average of the responses for each question.
Table 2
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Numerical and Descriptive Value of the Mean Scores of Reponses for Teacher Comfort
and Attitude in Schoology Use for Facilitating Student- centered Learning Survey
NUMERICAL VALUE DESCRIPTIVE VALUE
1.00- 1.80 Not really
1.81- 2.60 To a minor extent
2.61- 3.40 To a moderate extent
3.41- 4.20 To a great extent
4.21- 5.00 To a very great extent
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