Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences

1-9

Authors: Flordeliza Sorono-Gagani, Amelia M. Bonotan

Most of the schools underserve highability and highly motivated students by denying them access to high-quality mathematics and giving only opportunities for the disadvantaged students through intervention programs. Hence, a Mathletes Training Program was initially implemented in order to expose these students to advance Mathematics and to bring their mathematical knowledge alive through engaging in outside school competitions and real life activities. However, the absence of an evaluation tool discontinued the program. This prompts the researchers to design an evaluation instrument to measure the effectiveness of the mathletes program in terms of attitude towards Mathematics and selfconcept of the mathletes after undergoing the training. This study then details the development and validation of the Mathletes Training Program Evaluation Instrument. Samples of 60 elementary and junior high student- respondents were randomly selected from the total population of 211 Mathletes. Using Exploratory Factor Analysis, findings revealed that the three constructs-attitude toward math(ATM), mathlete training program(MTP) and self-concept (SC) were suited for factor analysis (KMO> 0.5) and were all reliable with Cronbach’s Alpha values of 0.72, 0.73 and 0.85 respectively and overall reliability of Cronbach’s alpha of 0 .84. From 20 ATM items, 61% had good factor loadings (>.4), 3 items were dropped and 5 factors were finally identified. Twenty-one (21) out of 25 MTP items captured 63% of the variance of the program effectiveness identified 7 factors after a reduction method. For the 12-item self-concept construct (SC), 3 factors were identified and captured approximately 61% of the total variance of the program effectiveness using the 3 factors. The results show that there is adequate evidence that the program evaluation tool designed is valid and reliable.

20-26

Authors: C. F. Akinnubi, J. B. Alla

This study examined solid waste disposal and health dangers involved living within and outside hostels in Ekiti State Universities, Nigeria. It precisely examined solid wastes generated, method of their disposal, and the health dangers associated with it. The population of the study comprised of students in hostels within and outside university accommodation in Ekiti state. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The results showed that various solid wastes were generated by the students; different types of disposal were employed, communicable diseases, unrestrained rodents invasion, food and water borne diseases, were also identified as health danger involved. The findings further showed that there was a significant difference in the method of solid waste disposal and health dangers with improper solid wastes disposal on the health status between students living outside and inside residential hostels in Ekiti State Universities The study recommends that enlightenment programmes on methods of solid waste disposal, health dangers involved and the importance of good health should be mounted.

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Authors: Mark Anthony Mujer Quintos

This study attempted to determine if the labels associated to a person will have an influence on how his/her behaviours are evaluated by others. A survey experiment was administered to the subjects in several repetitions. Twelve morally ambiguous vignettes are presented to the subjects during each stage. Subjects are asked to rate in a 6- point scale whether the character in the vignette “did the right thing” or not - with 1 indicating that the character is wrong and 6 indicating that the character did the right thing. During each stage of administration, similar vignettes are presented but the sequence of presentation, name of character, and labels associated with the character are changed. The goal is to see whether or not the subjects shall evaluate the character in the vignette differently when the label associated with them is changed. The four labels used are “Filipino” and “Christian” for the ingroup labels, and “American” and “Atheist” for the outgroup labels. Evidence from the study shows that characters associated with labels indicating in-group affiliation have been evaluated more positively by the subjects. However, the difference between the scores given by subjects to perceived in-group and outgroup characters are small. Findings reveal that religious labels has a greater effect on evaluation than nationality label. Results of correlational tests suggest that personal self-esteem has no significant influence in the evaluation of members of the in-group and outgroup. Instead, collective self-esteem, especially the private collective self-esteem, has a significant influence in how the subjects evaluated characters with in-group and outgroup labels.

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Authors: Ryan L. Mejia

The cruise industry is the fastestgrowing travel sector in the world.. The role of training and development plays a vital role in terms of skills acquisition cannot be over emphasized in a competitive world in which man live today. The study aimed to look into the industry partners’ perspective on Cruise line Management trainees and propose a training plan to further improve the internship program. The researcher utilized descriptive and quantitative design in order to analyze industry partner’s evaluation on Cruiseline Management students’ internship performance. The participants of this study are the Industry partners where 221 Cruise line Management students were deployed for their internship for the academic year 2013 – 2014. The findings showed that the Industry Partners where Cruiseline students were deployed for internship are composed of AAA resorts, 3-star to 5-star hotels, casual dining restaurants, and passenger vessel that have been in operation from 3 – 50 years. The performance of CLOHS and CLOCA students based on knowledge, skills, attitude, and personality as performance criteria is very good in the areas of Food and Beverage, Rooms Division, Western Cuisine, Asian Cuisine, and On-board training. The two programs performed differently as to the knowledge, skills and personality except for attitude as assessed by the industry partners. A training plan was proposed to help improve the internship.

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Authors: Louie G. Monteroso, Amelia M. Bonotan

The implementation of Open High School Program (OHSP) of the Department of Education in the Philippines has encountered many learning engagement and motivation issues based on a SEAMEO evaluation report. As there is no standardized instrument available to measure the readiness of students for blended instruction, the researchers want to address this “gap” by 1) designing a tool that can measure accurately the OHSP learners’ level of readiness to engage in open and blended learning, 2) establishing evidences of the instrument validity and reliability. An Open and Blended Learning Readiness Survey for potential OHSP learners was developed adapting the steps in instrument construction by Colton and Covert (2007). A pilot test was conducted to 50 potential OHSP learners during the first half SY 2016-2017. The analyses of the results of such tests provided evidence that the instrument will produce consistent results over a period of time even if administered on different occasions. Furthermore, this instrument proved to be valid as it would measure what it intends to measure as far as the open and blended learning readiness of high school learners is concerned.

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Authors: Ibrahim Kawuley Mikail, Mohamad Ainuddin I. Lee Bin Abdullah, Sivaperegasam P. Rajanthiran

The petrodollar economy has attributed a lot of controversies in the countries who are heavily relied on oil and gas economy particularly Middle Eastern states and other members of OPEC including Nigeria. This sinister has generated distortion on political economy of petrodollar in Nigerian economic system. This tragedy includes inconsistent political system, weak economic and developmental policies, incorporation of the economy into the vagaries western capitalist through IMF and World Bank, inflation and absence of economic stabilization of economy, neglecting agriculture among others. The content analysis and secondary data was duly adopted in this paper. The study revealed the above effects as the threat or impact to the petrodollar on Nigerian political economy. The neoclassical dependence model and the resource curse theory were employed as the theoretical framework of the study. Meanwhile, this paper recommends that diversification of the economy to cover other sectors in agriculture, mining industry, tourism and local industrialization would aid the economy to meets its challenges and development strategy.

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Authors: Kurt S. Candilas

The study explored the feminist ethos of the Venerable Ignacia del Espiritu Santo. Specifically, it determined the following: the historical background of the Venerable Ignacia del Espiritu Santo; the feminist ethos as found in the account of her life as a holy woman; and the significance of her life vis-à-vis education ministry. The study employed qualitative research using documentary analysis and the feminist hermeneutics in acquiring the data. Sources of data included key informants, biographies, stories, articles, and transcribed speeches of priests. The Venerable Ignacia del Espiritu Santo espoused a collective feminist ethos centered on religiosity, heroism, and education. Such traits were revealed in the historical roots and biography of Venerable Ignacia.