Minutes Of The Proposal Defense
- 1. Minutes of the Proposal Defense Title of the Study: The Perceived Effects of Single Gender Classroom Arrangement on the Performance of Female Students in English 1 in Ateneo de Davao University High School Department Date of Defense: November 22, 2008 (Saturday) Time of Defense: 10:20am - 11:10am Proponents: Kang, Kyung Hee and Otaw, Carlo Jay Suggestions: 1. On the first part of the introduction, Ma’am Fernandez suggested to put in the realities related to single gender sectioning and academic performance in general to specific that includes the trends in the global to ADDU high school, academic performance in English from general to specific. 2. On the second part, she suggested to put in the ideal situation in relation to single-gender sectioning and we can get the information of this from the vision/goals of the single-gender program (which Ma’am Gupeteo confirmed that she read the letter in regard of this), from the theories related to this issue, and from the book of Ballantay in Sociology. 3. After we get the information on the current realities and the ideal situation, we should identify the gaps. Ma’am Fernandez emphasized that the gaps should lead to the problematic situation so that we can clearly state the purpose of the study. 4. In regard to the statement of the problem, the two panelists have different ideas on what is our study about. Ma’am Aquino thought that our study will be the comparison between the single gender and the coed classes while Ma’am Fernandez seems to get what we planned to do. However she stresses that if say perception this should be address to the students; thus, students’ perception. 1
- 2. 5. Since we go for perception, Ma’am Fernandez said that our general problem was fine but the specific questions were not yet fine. So she suggested the following specific questions: 1. What is the level of speaking ability of the students? 2. What is the level of writing ability of the students? 3. What are the effects of single-gender arrangement on performance in English as perceived by female students? 6. There should be no hypotheses of study because we are not proving something anymore. 7. Operational Definition of Terms should be on the last part of Chapter one. 8. As to the content of Operational Definition of Terms, some are disregarded like the coed classroom and the single sex education and we should also state the speaking and writing skills measurement (example: speaking measurement includes the recitation, grammar, vocabulary. etc.) 9. On the significance of the study, she commented that we should arrange it in deductive order (from general to specific) and we can also include ourselves (the researchers). 10.On the Scope and Limitations of the Study, we should include the topic coverage and variables involve in our study. Our variables are the following: speaking, writing, and perception. Moreover, we should also state the reason why we highlighted only two skills among the four macro skills. 11.Our RRL was okay and she articulated that we can also include the argument between all male classrooms and all female classrooms. 12.On chapter three, she just added that a “qualitative” word because a descriptive type can be a qualitative and quantitative research. 13.Some of the contents of chapter three were mixed up and she pointed every sentence we wrote to its proper places in the chapter three. 14.She continued that our data gathering procedure should be in paragraph form. 15.Furthermore, we should improve our questionnaire in a way that it will measure the perception of students (example: I believe I can…) 2
- 3. 16.We should also come up with a rubric to measure the level of writing and speaking ability. Different rubrics should be use to determine the level of abilities. 17.We should also interview all the students of First year De Brito students. 18.Frequency Percentage Distribution should be use in computing the collected data. Panel Members: __________________ Ms. Mae Fernandez __________________ Ms. Tetchie Aquino 3