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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER I BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Introduction Navigation is a technique which basically focuses on process of monitoring and controlling the movement of person or vehicle or craft from one place to another e.g.: Land navigation, Marine Navigation, Aeronautic Navigation etc. (Bangare et.al, 2014). In this study, the researchers will design an alternative navigator for Nueva Ecija High School. This navigator is computer-based application which is basically for navigating students’ classroom assignments inside the school premises College. Mobile phones are nowadays far more than merely devices to communicate with. Especially, Smartphone’s are products that help to make our work and everyday life easier. Along with the advance in technology and popularity of these devices, the use of mobile applications has increased enormously in the last few years. Based on new techniques like GPS, sensors, compass and accelerometer, that can have used to determine the orientation of the device, location-based applications coupled with augmented reality views are also possible. There are several commercial navigation applications - such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Map quest that provide users with directions from one place to another. However, these applications must search along existing roads; they are not able to provide services that are as precise as finding the classroom assignment of a student within a specific period.

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Review of Related Literature The researchers present a number of related literature and studies that contain gathered researches from different sources. This citing serves as guide in pursuing this study.

Foreign Literature Maps and route services are vital for navigation. For instance, the personal and interactive use of maps in mobile environment has several advantages. The mobility of mobile devices makes it possible to use maps for navigational purposes. On the other hand, in desktop applications maps are used mainly for route planning. The rapid development of new technologies enables high speed internet in mobile devices which further makes it possible to use advanced online services for navigation. Most mobile map applications nowadays are developed for cars; there is a lack of services for pedestrian and cycle navigation. The HaptiMap project aims at developing pedestrian navigation systems. The motivation of this thesis is to complement the HaptiMap project in developing the location based demonstrator that is being developed on Android mobile operation system platform. Lund University and Lund Municipality are cooperating in the HaptiMap project to develop the “Lund Challenge” demonstrator. The demonstrator is intended to make the sights of Lund city more accessible from mobile phone application which will help tourists to navigate themselves in Lund city. It should be designed as a touristic, historical location based game. The application should not be functional only for general users but it also should function for visually impaired users. The demonstrator should contain basic components of exploring and way finding including the location of historical sites which would make exploring them possible (HaptiMap, 2010).

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Prior to Android application development the study of two datasets used in the HaptiMap project was performed. Additionally the OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Swedish National Road Database (NVDB) road network data were imported to PostGIS database and the routing calculation were performed using the pgRouting functionality. OSM is an example of volunteered geographic information. It is an open source project that allows adding, editing and retrieving geographic data. The Google Mobile Maps application provides exploring tools for navigating in the city. Similar application is necessary to develop based on OSM data. While in the contrast to Google Mobile Maps the OSM data and the navigation tools based on it include pedestrian paths for routing that have the largest potential demand. Furthermore, since the development of OSM data is an ongoing process and it is open source project a lot more pedestrian paths data is expected that will assist better pedestrian route finding. The Lund Challenge demonstrator should include standard navigation tools for navigating users in the city. Miguel Molina is developing it at Faculty of Engineering in Lund University. The demonstrator should include voice assistance which will allow visual impaired users to get information about the sights and navigate themselves in the city. The purpose of this study is to develop Android mobile map application with standard navigation tools for pedestrians. The latter, as a prototype, would be used in future developments of the Lund Challenge demonstrator (Mikayelyan, 2011). Nowadays maps are used more for personal and interactive purposes than for just visualization of spatial data. Due to technological progress it is now possible to use web maps in mobile device environment. By use of wireless internet from geospatial services, map data can be distributed to mobile devices like mobile phones or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Because maps on mobile devices are used also in portable situations, they should be presented in totally different way than on static personal desktops. Similar to screen-based maps mobile maps also can be explored, updated and analyzed 3

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL interactively (Meng et al., 2005). While most current mobile map applications are made for car navigation, applications for cyclists and pedestrian navigation also exist (Nivala, 2005).

Mobile phone Applications The mobile phone is one of the quickest to be adopted technologies in human history. As smart phones drop in price, we will see a rapid shifting how mobile phones are perceived: From simple communication devices to general purpose mobile computers. The Apple iPhone and Google Android have already begun to popularize this paradigm shift. Soon, even low end phones will be deployed with fast processors, long battery life, and rich sensing capabilities (such as GPS, accelerometer, infrared light, etc.). And, unlike their desktop counterparts, mobile phones have the unique property of always being on hand, a near constant companion of their users. In this way, the mobile phone will become a sort of digital extension of the user, sensing context as the user moves about the world. However, tools and techniques that have long been refined for creating successful desktop computing environments do not translate well to the mobile environment. The focus of our proposal is on developing the next generation of mobile computing applications, which will incorporate a near-constant internet connection, novel interactions (e.g., multi-touch), sensors, and machine learning (e.g., activity inference) to provide rich, interactive experiences. Global Positioning System, popular and commonly known as GPS, is a kind of space based navigation technology providing us with the exact location and time details no matter where we are. It’s not affected by bad weather or any other obstruction in the navigation process.

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL The technology was brought into the practice at the first time back in 1973 by U.S. Defense Department. From the testing experience, the technology showed it’s much superior and advanced, and it has superseded all the earlier versions of navigation systems. With the rapid development of navigation technology, GPS is widely used in many fields such as army, banking and surveillance, science, technology, commerce, geology, telecommunication, and etc. In theory, the GPS technology works in this model. A GPS Data Logger that tracks the exact location of a vehicle, or a device, and then the tracking information would be acquired through the connection of the GPS data Logger with a computer via local or global Internet. Thanks to the development of GPS technology, the most advanced navigation technology-real time GPS service becomes true. It’s been fast and wildly adopted in many fields and is becoming to play a crucial role in our modern life, especially in security and safety field (Reddy, 2011).

Challenges in Mobile Application Development Mobile phones are not just “phones” anymore with only “voice and SMS” functionalities. The continuing spread of mobile technology will have a dramatic impact on the lives of individuals and institutions. Convergence of internet and telecommunication technologies is increasing rapidly. However, in the progress of mobile application development, due to complex structure of mobile ecosystem, there is a fragmentation in terms of different mobile “Operating Systems”, “Screen Resolutions”, “Device Models and Capabilities,” and “User Experience”. Fragmentation is the word that defines the biggest barrier. Fragmentation increases the cost and the time to develop mobile applications (Reddy, 2011). Different device models support different functionalities, such as touch screen, gravity censors, camera flash, etc. Hardware performances also vary between devices. In addition to that, some applications need to support external device functionalities. Screen 5

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL resolution is crucially important in application development. Ongoing trend is to have bigger screen resolutions for expanded multimedia support, data presentation, and browsing. However, device manufacturers tend to support multi‐range of resolutions to address the needs of different user segments. User experience, which is simply the way the users behave while using the keyboard, screen, entry‐exit functions, number of clicks, etc., is different across device models. Usage scenarios and actions are different between device models and these differences should be realized and taken into consideration in order to deploy successful mobile applications.

Local Literature According to Primer (2017), one of the difficult things that everyone can probably experience when getting in an unfamiliar place is getting around the place. Good thing there are navigation apps available in the Philippines that can improve r driving and commuting experience and help reach the destination. Waze is probably one of the most downloaded navigation apps in the Philippines. It is available on both Android and iOS devices. Ride sharing services, such as Uber and Grab, officially use Waze with its navigation. Waze is a community navigation app, which means all its information, from real-time traffic to road blockage, are shared by the users. It lets add friends to inform them about a person’s location and estimated time of arrival. From discovering places, alternative ways, and even transit schedules, Google Maps can be very helpful. It has a built in indoor maps to easily help find a way in big places. A street view for locating the destination in the fastest and convenient way as possible. Google Maps can be accessed on Android phones, iPhone and desktop. Navitel Navigator is a precise offline GPS navigation with free geosocial services and detailed maps of 64 countries, including the Philippines. It features information on all traffic jams in the covered area, available in real-time. It can even message to some friends 6

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL to track their locations, even weather forecast, SpeedCam warnings, 3D mapping, and Multilanguage support. On the other hand, iOnRoad uses the smartphone camera and sensors to detect vehicles in front of their car. It also has a built-in VisualRadar to map objects in front of the driver in real time, so they can calculate the current speed. iOnRoad is supported by iPhone, Samsung, and LG. Some social media savvy would rather use Twitter and follow helpful accounts for real time updates, and at the same time, check current traffic condition, and even tag their friends as well. Twitter can be downloaded in any smartphone devices.

Conceptual Framework Figure 1 depicts the project plan. It describes the activity plan of the project. The activities will be carried out in the same order. The researchers will be implementing the proposed system on the basis of object oriented concepts. It means dividing whole system into different modules. Design of the Project Coding Software Development Testing Modifications

Deployment and Implementation Figure 1 Research Paradigm 7

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Objective of the Study This study entitled “Alternative Navigator for Nueva Ecija High School focused in designing an alternative navigator for Nueva Ecija High School. The pivotal aim of this research was to introduce a computer-based application by adding some functionality aside from developed and existing navigators. For this purpose, an application would be developed and as a prototype would be used to supplementing the routing functionality and simple navigation tools.

Significance of the Study The researchers believed that this study would be a great help not only to them, but also to every school institution and parents since it dealt with the monitoring of the students inside the school premises. The researchers believe that this research study will be beneficial: School Institution. It will provide them an offline application that can be used in monitoring the students’ location inside the school premises within a specific time frame. Future researchers. It will serve as a good source of information that they can use as related studies in the research. Parents. This study will aid the parents in a way that they will be guided and aware of their children’s location so they could be monitored from time to time.

Scope and Delimitation This study will design an alternative Navigator for Nueva Ecija High School as a complex infrastructure in the province of Nueva Ecija. Especially new students and people who are on it for the first time have a hard time to orientate themselves and find places.

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Nueva Ecija High School has many different buildings. Most of the buildings are connected to each other, some of them even by underground walkways. Even if there are maps at some points on the campus, users do not have continuous help to get to their destination especially for parents. They can try to figure out a way to get to their target on these static maps, but as soon as they start walking in the target direction they have no help any more. Whereas it is very common to use navigation systems to reach designated locations of the students, systems for this type of navigation are quite hard to find. So, how it is possible to help freshmen and other inexperienced people orient themselves in the school and support them finding places with the help of modern techniques. The answer to this question is this alternative navigator. It will enable users such as parents, students and teachers to obtain routes that are much more detailed than an existing commercial application can provide. The implementation of a navigator application calls for much greater complexity than the simplest version of this type of application. At its core, a simple navigation application would not be difficult to create. Nueva Ecija High School would be represented as a Graph structure, with locations (buildings, parking lots, etc.) on school stored as vertices of the Graph and transitions between the locations (roads, sidewalks, etc.) stored as edges between the vertices. This application directs the user (parent, student and teacher) from his/her current location to the exact location he/she searches for an individual student. It reduces the effort of the user to walk all over the school. The user has to access this application through an android phone when he/she enters the premises of the campus and register prior to using the application. The user cannot use the application outside the campus area. The user also has to mandatorily register to proceed. There already exist several 9

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL commercial navigation applications - such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest - that provide users with directions from one place to another. However, these applications must search along existing roads; they are not able to provide routes that are as precise as an on school path would require.

Definition of Terms The following terms were defined to give information on the readers that will help them better understand the key terms in this study: Alternative. A choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, of things, propositions, or courses of action or the selection of which precludes any other possibility (British Council, 2018). Navigator. It is a way of Finding and/or locating areas of interest, people and accessing other associated sites using a specific set of information and links (The Law Dictionary, 2018).

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER II METHODOLOGY This chapter presents the research method used in the study to gather the data. This includes the research design, techniques for data gathering, sample and sampling procedure, and data analysis.

Research Method The research method to be used in the study is developmental method. According to Kowalczyk (2015), developmental research is a study focused on the progressive changes that occur as a product develops. Research and development, innovation, new product development and product design are often used interchangeably, but they each have quite distinct meanings. Innovation, therefore can involve the exploitation of a new market opportunity, or on the other hand, the development and marketing of a new invention; however, it usually involves a combination of both since many inventions have no market demand and so do not constitute an innovation (Ruadesign, 2015). Since this study is concerned with the researchers’ objective of designing an alternative navigator, developmental method of research is appropriate to use.

Participants In this study, participants will be teachers of Nueva Ecija High School. Purposive sampling will be used as sampling technique simply because the teachers are the most qualified to rate the developed/innovated alternative navigator. According to Crossman (2017), purposive sampling has non-probability sample that is selected based on characteristics of a population and the objective of the study. Purposive sampling is also known as judgmental, selective, or subjective sampling. This 11

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL type of sampling can be very useful in situations when researchers need to reach a targeted sample quickly, and where sampling for proportionality is not the main concern.

Instruments This study involves development of an alternative navigator for Nueva Ecija High School and the determination of acceptability in the prospective will be tested and evaluated by selected respondents through survey questionnaire.

Procedure The researchers will ask for the guidance of an IT expert for the design and implementation of the alternative navigator. Through literature, the researchers will be using questionnaires and interview to determine the acceptability of the alternative navigator. Assistance of the experts will be helpful too in correcting the errors. The survey-questionnaire will undergo careful checking for correctness of the statements. Researchers’ adviser will assist the researchers in the formulation of the questionnaire.

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER III PROJECT METHODS USED This chapter discusses the different phases of how the computer-based application has been created. The goal of this chapter is to explain the rationale behind the programming project and to present a brief overview of the design and prototyping process. This will also give context to the discussion of goals and its design and implementation process. Then, the researchers present the guidelines extracted from the literature and the consequent goals for the design of computer-based software. Also included in this chapter is a short summary of an early project and study conducted on different interaction and visualization methods of localized lists with the use of Visual Basics.

Project Method As a result of technologies web-based applications with rich contents are evolving to be more and more like normal applications in aspects, such as interactivity, functionality, and usability. This evolvement makes it possible to create a computer-based service, providing maps for users to search and browse geographic information. This will also evaluate the functionality, usability and accuracy. It will also explain how computer-based mapping works, common functionality provided, and evaluates the functionality provided as well as the offered usability. In addition to this, it also includes the results of several tests, illustrating the compatibility, performance and accuracy.

Analysis Phase In this phase, the designers asked permission from proper authorities to conduct interviews and observation in the locations that they will be using in this project. They gathered the data needed by asking questions from the faculty staffs. 13

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL TABLE 1. GANTT CHART Months Weeks

November 1 2 3 4

December 1 2 3 4

January 1 2 3 4

February 1 2 3 4

March 1 2 3 4

Analysis Design Simulation Implementation Monitoring Management

This Gantt chart covered the Analysis, Design, Simulation, Implementation, Monitoring and Management phases from the Month of November to March. The designers analyzed what are the needed requirements in developing the computer-based application for Nueva Ecija High School in Cabanatuan City. The designers analyzed and discussed which devices and equipment will be using in the proposed project design together with what specifications and configurations needed. The researchers also searched a location to be able to determine where the computer will be installed. They made sure that the coverage of the design will be wide and it will cover the entire campus. They also assured that all devices needed in this network were in affordable price but with high quality and good performance.

Design Phase This phase was done from November to December. The design phase can be referred to as the transformation phase, because this is when an idea is actually transform into a real working system. The researchers layout the design and all the features that will be displayed. The developers used an event driven programming language and IDE (integrated development environment) of Microsoft. Graphical user interface is used with a basic programming language to provide a graphical programming environment for developing a user interface. 14

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL By making the design of this proposed computer-based software, the designer properly arranged the tools and conduct a canvassing of equipment to be able to determine which of it is appropriate to use without disregarding the quality and assurance of each devices. The designers also think of a better way of connecting with no error and having the best tools to provide the applicable ways of communicating with modern technology style.

Figure 1. Prototype Sample

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Simulation/ Prototyping Phase By the time that this proposed project is done and the peripherals and devices are properly arranged, the designer will simulate each of it to determine the functionality to avoid such errors to fix it before it implemented thoroughly.

Figure 2. Selection of Student’s Section

Figure 3. Mapping of Students’ Location

Upon clicking the student’s section, a map window will appear to determine the exact location of the student’s section at a specific time.

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Implementation Phase Implementing this proposed project will be based upon the approval of each network location. Once it is done, the network designers will eventually handle it in every possible way and discussed to the person in-charge every details he needed in this project.

Monitoring Phase In monitoring the use of the computer-based software, the designers will manually check every device used in this project and to check which device is giving error or malfunctioned, to sustained and ensured the transmission of data and sharing of files is well-organized and working properly. This measurement is given ahead of time to avoid inconveniences.

Management Phase The designers and Nueva Ecija High School itself will provide a personnel who will manage the communication. If the institution will provide that person, he/she must undergo a training to be an IT practitioner or technical staff capable of monitoring and managing the software at the same time. By that time, that person will be the one who will be responsible to conduct an analysis if there is a problem and give an efficient and fast solution to that problem. If he/she encounter an error which is unable to fix or not within his capability, before anything else he/she must contract the designers to fix it and avoid such delay.

Statistical Treatment of Data The demographic profile of the respondents and other variables were analyzed based on the responses derived from the survey-questionnaire. 17

ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL To answer the determination of acceptability for alternative navigator, weighted frequency and weighted mean were used. The total weighted frequency and total weighted mean were computed in order to be able to evaluate and analyze the responses. The formulae were:

For Percentage: P=

F N

x 100

Where: P

= Percentage

F

= Frequency

N

= Total number of respondents

100 = Constant multiplier

For weighted mean: WM =

TWF N

Where: WM

= Weighted mean

TWF

= Total Weighted Frequency

N

= Total number of respondents

For weighted frequency: WF = W x f Where: WF

= Weighted Frequency

W

= Degree of response

f

= Frequency 18

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The computed weighted mean for all of the responses of the respondents were given class interval and equivalent verbal interpretation. The Likert Scale served as the options offered to respondents for a response which corresponds as follows: Table 1. Verbal Interpretation for Weighted Mean Weight 4 3 2 1

Class interval 3.25 – 4.00 2.50 – 3.24 1.75 – 2.49 1.00 – 1.74

Verbal Interpretation Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA This chapter presents the results of the survey, analysis and interpretation of data conducted to the group of parent of ICT students at Nueva Ecija High School as to their perceptions in the establishment of NC II program in the College of Nursing and Allied Medical Sciences at Wesleyan University-Philippines.

1. Demographic Profile of the Respondents 1.1 Age Table 2 Age of the Respondents Age 38-42 33-37 28-32 23-27 18-22 Total

Frequency 1 1 2 6 72 82

Percentage 1.22% 1.22% 2.44% 7.32% 87.80% 100.00%

Table 2 shows the age distribution of the respondents. It is shown that seventytwo (72) or 87.80% of the respondents’ age were in the 18-22 age bracket, six (6) or 7.32% were in the age 23-27 years old, two (2) or 2.44% were in the age bracket of 28-32 years old and only one (1) or 1.22% were between the 33-37 years of age and 28-42 years of age, respectively. Out of the eighty-two (82) respondents in the survey comprising of 3rd year college nursing students, majority of them were in the young adulthood stage and considered as late adolescents (Teipel, 2018).

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL The results implied that the 3rd year Bachelor of Science in Nursing students from the Wesleyan University-Philippines’ College of Nursing and Allied Medical Sciences were dominated by young adults. According to Hamada (2014), most people are 18 years old when they begin college. Thus many graduates are 22 when they finish a 4-year program on time.

1.2 Gender Table 3 Gender of the Respondents Gender Male Female Total

Frequency 25 57 82

Percentage 30.49% 69.51% 100.00%

Table 3 shows the gender distribution of the respondents. It is shown in the table that fifty-seven (57) or 69.51% of the respondents were female and twenty-five (25 or 30.49% were male. The nursing students who responded to the study were represented by females. The result implied that most of the respondents who were currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Wesleyan University-Philippines were female. The data on gender supports the old time deduction that the nursing course is predominantly female and that there will be more female nurse professionals in the future compared to male ones who would provide nursing care services (Ozdemir, 2017).

1.3 Civil Status Table 4 Civil Status of the Respondents

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL Civil Status Single Married Total

Frequency 77 5 82

Percentage 93.90% 6.10% 100.00%

The civil status of the third year nursing students is also shown in table 4. As revealed, there were seventy-seven (77) or 93.90% of their number who are single, and only five (5) or 6.10% who are married. The data implied that there are more third year nursing students who are free and have more time to concentrate on their studies and to perform hospital duties as required by their curriculum (Castillo et. al, 2008).

2. Perceptions of the Respondents in the Establishment of TESDA’s NC II Program in WU-PCONAMS Table 5 Perceptions in Establishing NC II in WU-P CONAMS Perceptions In Establishing NC II in WU-P CONAMS WM 1. The program will help students gain additional knowledge 3.82 and skills in the actual practice of the nursing profession.

VI All of the time

2. The program will help students to have a better performance 3.71 in the actual clinical settings.

All of the time

3. NC II program is a sort of introduction as it gets students ready for the workplace which comes in handy while performing various tasks.

3.71

All of the time

4. Students will have more chances of employment because TESDA offers specialization courses in health care 3.63 services.

All of the time

5. The program will help students to become a responsible and independent in fulfilling their tasks since they will have 3.60 sufficient training.

All of the time

6. Hands-on work activities of the NC II program will allow students to have a direct application of the acquired 3.59 knowledge.

All of the time

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL 7. This program will provide an advantage for every student since TESTA will prepare them in becoming a globally 3.54 competitive professionals.

All of the time

8. Students who have dilemma whether they should continue their degree or not, will have a chance of getting employed 3.57 once they finished the NC II program.

All of the time

9. National Certificate program will give students a competitive 3.52 advantage in the employment.

All of the time

10. NC II program will prepare students in becoming a competent nurse for their basic knowledge in nursing will be 3.52 re-enforced.

All of the time

Average Weighted Mean

3.62

All of the time

The perceptions of the level three nursing students in Establishing NC II in WU-P CONAMS were presented in table 5.

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CHAPTER 5 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS This chapter presents the summary of findings, conclusions and recommendations of the researchers based on the actual data gathered.

Summary of Findings This study entitled “Alternative Navigator for Nueva Ecija High School focused in designing an alternative navigator for Nueva Ecija High School. The pivotal aim of this research was to introduce a computer-based application by adding some functionality aside from developed and existing navigators. For this purpose, an application was developed and as a prototype would be used to supplementing the routing functionality and simple navigation tools. The researchers used the developmental-survey method of research in determining the perceptions of the respondents as to the determination of acceptability for alternative navigator. Data collected through survey-questionnaire were presented in table form and articulated into percentage to draw some inferences related to variables investigated. Perceptions of the respondents was subjected to content analysis with the use of statistical tool such as weighted mean and interpreted accordingly. Further, some information and supporting facts was presented using literature reviews used in the study to review the study.

1. Profile of the Respondents

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ALTERNATIVE NAVIGATOR FOR NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL In determining the desired results of this study, the researchers utilized the frequency count and percentage formula in the treatment of data gathered for the demographic profile of the respondents. Data were tallied and the results are stated below:

1.1 Age The highest number of respondents were in the young adulthood stage and considered as late adolescents’ stage particularly young adults in the 18-22 age bracket.

1.2 Gender Majority of the respondents who were currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Wesleyan University-Philippines were female at 57 or 69.51% of the sample.

1.3 Civil Status As revealed, there were seventy-seven (77) or 93.90% of their number who are single, and only five (5) or 6.10% who are married.

Conclusions The motivation of this thesis project is to build a computer-based application for providing an alternative navigator for the users and to monitor students’ location at a specific time. By using Visual basic as medium for this developmental study, the application is built keeping in mind about the design standards and maintainability of the code. The researchers conclude that the alternative navigator application is very simple to use and is helpful to every parents and teachers displaying students’ location at a specific time. 25

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Recommendations Based from the findings and conclusions presented above, the researchers of the study recommends the following: 1. First, the results of the study may be disseminated for the information of greater number of students, the facilitators or instructors of the students, and the school administrators as well to provide a basis in improving and enhancing the application to be conducted in the near future to better assist the parents and teachers. 2. That another study be conducted involving greater number of respondents to include teachers, so that a more reliable and more specific information could be derived to generalized the results of the study. 3. The establishment of a school-wide application program may be given priority by the school administration for it will provide easy monitoring of students’ location. 4. Replicate this research for further study and for a more defined recommendations and improved opportunities. 5. Studies should be conducted in other institutions in order to establish if or not institutions will accept the application.

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