Perception on the Functionality of the School Library

Davao Central High School

Sta. Ana Corner J.P. Laurel Ave. Davao City

PERCEPTION ON THE FUNCTIONALITY

OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements

in Statistics

PAUL SIMON LIM

2012 – 2013

Abstract

The researchers conducted a study about the perception on the functionality of the school library because we, the researchers, wanted to motivate the students of Davao Central High School to visit the library and to improve their reading and writing skills. The researchers wanted also to know if there is any difference in the perception of functionality of the students on the school library in terms of gender and section. The researchers wanted to gather the sixty-three out of seventy-five student’s in 4th year; therefore they used the systematic random sampling and the Slovins’ Formula. The researchers choose this kind of sampling due to the researchers’ estimation that there will be about sixty percent of 4th year student who are using the school’s library every day. Thus, the researchers will be writing all the names of the students in a paper then he/she will pick a number that the researcher likes and lastly the researcher selects the respondents every “ninth” of the names until the researcher will get sixty-three respondents. The survey questionnaire consisted of fifteen-item questions that are divided into two categories (students and library) on whether the library is functional to the fourth yr. students. The respondents will respond to a five-point scale ranging from very positive, positive, fair, negative and very negative. Items on the questionnaire were drawn from literature on the normal reasons for answering the question on what is the perception on the functionality of the school library. By the help of mean, standard deviation, and t-test, the researchers used these statistical tools to analyze the gathered data of this study

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researcher would like to express her heartfelt gratitude and...