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1.1 Introduction
A Science Laboratory is a workplace for the conduct of scientific research. It helps students to
remember the ideas better. It helps to transfer the experience to other learning situations. It is a facility
that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may
be performed.Science laboratory equipment allows students to interact directly with the data gathered.
They get a first-hand learning experience by performing various experiments on their own. Students
are made to use the models and understand different scientific theories and concepts. It is also found
that school science lab equipment and supplies make teaching and learning easy both for the
teachers, as well as for the students. And Pinchas Tamir has been seen that the laboratory is “a place
where students are engaged in hands-on activities such as observations and experiments”
commenting further, he stated that a laboratory must be used not only to verify but to find her
investigation and inquiry.
There’s a lot of problems in Science Laboratories when the school cannot provide the right
apparatus to be used by the students. In this manner, the students will poorly understand the thing or
lesson to be understood well because they did not perform it hands-on. Usually in our Generation now
there are terms and lessons in science that needs to be manipulated and accompanied by the science
laboratories.
That's why with the problem that some other schools were heading they offered a well organized
and complete in facilities in their science laboratories. It is to create knowledgeable results to the
students learning and will help them be advance in science. But still, there are schools that are not yet
renovated because of the financial and government support problems. And still going on the process.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
How renovated science laboratory improve to the science academic performance of the student in
terms of the following:
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Comprehension
This study will provide a piece of very important information about the student's response
regarding the renovation of the science laboratory to the students. But aside from that, this study can
also be useful to the School, Other Researchers and to all Science Teachers.
Students - will enable the students to see the need for developing his or her creative thinking and
his or her manipulative skill or ability and will tend to know what it is exactly intended for in their
studies.
Other Researchers- It will be their basis in collecting other data with regards to science laboratories
study. They will get some knowledge in this study.
Science Teachers- this study is important for it will help them to see the need for having a well
equipped and effectively used laboratory.
School - which is Mercy Junior College it is useful to the school for it can be their basis of the
students learning regarding their renovated science laboratory if it is enough or it is not enough.
This study will be limited to the Contribution of the Renovated Science Laboratory to the Students
Learning and Advancement in Mercy Junior College, Poblacion Tubod Lanao del Norte. The study will
start from July until August.
1.5 Operational Definition of Terms
Science Laboratory - refers to the facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or
technological research, experiments, and measurement maybe performed.
Academic Performance - refers to the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has achived
their short or long term educational goals.
Learning - the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.
This research is a social science. It is explanatory research that seeks an explanation on how
can a renovated science laboratory in Mercy Junior College provides the learning and advancement of
the students. This includes the way of gathering qualitative data. Qualitative data will be gathered from
the respondents using questionnaires and which also helps identify and deal with the problem
effectively and efficiently.
This research will be conducted at Mercy Junior College, Poblacion Tubod Lanao del Norte. The
respondents for this research are from the Grade 11 and 12 STEM Students who have a major subject
in science which are chemistry I and II and biology I and II in Grade 11 and in Physics I and II. The
respondents are enrolled in this school year 2019-2020.
Phase 1 will be the construction of questionnaires with regards to the study that can be very useful for
this chosen study. Questionnaires are a research tool consisting of a series of questions for the goal of
gathering data from a respondent.
Phase 2 will be the distribution of the made questionnaires to the respondents which are the Grade 11
and Grade 12 STEM students. As the questionnaires had been distributed it will be collected after they
answered the said questions.
Phase 3, the last phase, as the data were collected from the respondents it will need an analyzation. It
is the Data analysis will be the inspecting, cleansing, molding and modeling data with the aim of
discovering beneficial information, informing results and supporting decision-making.
3.4 Data Gathering Procedure (Flow Chart)
distributed to the
Students
Data Analysis
This study will be used by one of the classic social sciences research tools which are the
questionnaires. Questionnaires are a research tool consisting of a series of questions for the goal of
gathering data from a respondent. It provides a common, quick and efficient way of collecting
substantial volumes of information from a large sample of people. It will also help to determine the
response of the Grade 11 and 12 STEM students of Mercy Junior College regarding the contribution of
the renovated science laboratory to the students learning and advancement in Mercy Junior College.
The Contribution of the Renovated
Science Laboratory to the Students
Learning and Advancement in Mercy
Junior College