International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Procrastination Attitude of the Senior High School Students in Modular Distance Learning Modality

Gel Marie B. Tiboron¹, Dr. Ronald S. Decano², Mark Van M. Buladaco^3
1Graduate Student, Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Management, Davao del Norte State College
²Dean, Institute of Advanced Studies, Davao del Norte State College
³Dean, Institute of Computing, Davao del Norte State College

Abstract: Nowadays, especially in modular modality, students tend to procrastinate or to delay a certain work that needs to be accomplished on a certain deadline. It is a behavioral problem that occurs in every individual. The research design of this study utilized the phenomenological method to determine the Procrastination attitude of the students in a modular distance learning modality in The Rizal Memorial Colleges, Inc. The participants of this study composed of 10 Senior High School students. The data obtained identified emergent themes clustered into three, namely: Diligence, Honesty, and Hope. Based on the results, one of the existing behaviors that any person could have, with or without their knowledge, and became the major problem of everyone, especially to every student, is procrastination. With this, the implications to the teachers were to provide motivations towards their students in order to banish procrastination.

Keywords: procrastination, behaviors, cramming, attitude, senior high school

I.INTRODUCTION

Procrastination is a bad habit that needs to be unleashed. It is prevalent as to everyone do this bad practice. This irrational delay relates to increased stress levels, frustration, anxiety, and it lowers the level of creativity and productivity of a student.
Students procrastinate; they were cramming, and it is expected that the procrastinators will be facing negative consequences. Especially this study look forwards to the School opening will not necessarily mean traditional face-to-face learning in the classroom.
The physical opening will depend on the risk severity grading or classification of a certain community pursuant to guidelines from the Department of Health (DOH), the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Philippines, and the Office of the President (OP). This phenomenon becomes problematic as students make this bad behavior a habit. That is why the researchers tend to dig deeper investigation on this problem to share and expose students’ sentiments towards procrastination attitude of students in modular distance learning modality. Teachers wanted to express their different experiences on this matter and know and share their strategies on surpassing this kind of problem.