The Benefits of Microsoft Office Application to Senior High Students An Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion Presented to the Faculty of Senior High School Plaridel Integrated National High School
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Subject Inquiries, Investigation and Immersion
BRENT JONES V. GIANAN BILL CHRISTIAN E. FLORES JOHN RUDOLPH O. EVASCO JOHN CARLOS B. UNTIVERO JONARD G. SASA GERSON DERIQUITO 2018
DEDICATION
To Our loving and supportive parents and guardians Mr& Mrs. Isagani & Emily Visey
Eliser B.Flores
Evasco
Mr& Mrs. Librado & Myla Untivero
Sasa And our understanding Brothers and Sisters To our beloved teachers, friends, and mentors who are Always giving their help, support and patience And above all To our dear Almighty God!
The Researchers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researchers would like to express their gratitude to the Almighty Godgiver of life, grace and all source of wisdom, for all the enlightenment and guidance. He made everything possible in the completion of this study. Sincere gratitude was also given to the following persons who rendered their help and support to accomplish this work: Mr. Ervin Reyes- researchers’ adviser, for his undying support and patience in the fulfillment of this research. The researchers are very thankful for having such a good adviser like him. To and who shared ideas and support in the researchers’ study and for making some corrections in this study. The respondents, for their worthy help and cooperation in obtaining all the needed information by the authors. Our parents as well as our siblings for their love and financial help in making this study. Finally, those who are not mentioned but in one way or another have helped in completion of this study, all the researchers are thankful to all them. --The Authors
ABSTRACT Nowadays, computer application software became part of education. Most of school assignments, projects, researches, dissertations etc. can be done through the use of Computer Application Software. Microsoft Office Application was developed to transmit office word, educational materials and practice systematically in school and university faster with higher quality. This study, “The Benefits of Microsoft Office Application to students” sought to answer the following questions: (1) Why students use Microsoft Office Application? (2) What is the level of benefits of Microsoft Office Application to Students in terms of: 2.1 Computation 2.2 Documentation 2.3 Presentation 2.4 Publishing. Descriptive research design used to describe characteristics of “what is”, so survey method are frequently used to collect descriptive data. Most of the Senior High Students use Microsoft Office Application for making documents. The benefits of Microsoft Office Application in terms of Documentation, Presentation and Computation are very helpful while Publishing is not really helpful. The most use Microsoft Office Application is MS Word
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 ................................................................................................................................................ 6 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 6 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ....................................................................................................... 7 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK .......................................................................................................... 8 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ................................................................................................... 10 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ...................................................................................................... 11 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION ........................................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER II .............................................................................................................................................. 13 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ................................................................................................ 13 CHAPTER III ............................................................................................................................................. 14 RESEARCH METHODOLOY ................................................................................................................ 14 RESEARCH DESIGN .......................................................................................................................... 14 SUBJECT OF THE STUDY ................................................................................................................ 14 PROCEDURE OF THE STUDY ......................................................................................................... 15 RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS ............................................................................................................ 15 STATISTICAL TREATEMENT OF DATA ....................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER IV ............................................................................................................................................ 17 PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION, AND ANALYSIS OF DATA ............................................. 17 CHAPTER 5 .............................................................................................................................................. 20 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ...................................... 20 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ................................................................................................................. 20 CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................... 21 RECOMMENDATION ......................................................................................................................... 21 TALLY SHEET ..................................................................................................................................... 23 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................. 26
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Technology is prevalent in our society and there are many emerging application nowadays. Therefore, for that reason, the researchers wanted to know the Benefits of Microsoft Office Application to Students. Application Software is a program or group of program designed for end users. These programs are divided into two classes: System Software and Application Software. Respondents are the students who use Microsoft Application Software. It could be grade 11 and 12 senior high students of PINHS. The advantages of Microsoft Office Application are that they make our paper work easily to publish. They meet the exact needs of the users. Since they are designed specifically with one purpose in mind, the user know the he has to use one specific Microsoft Office Application to accomplish his task. Users have many benefits of using Microsoft Office Application. This includes
word
processing,
data
base,
multimedia
and
editing.
Doing
assignments, presentation, documents and competition. The Microsoft Office Application can help them to do it easily.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Nowadays, in the world of technologies, things are done easily. Millennial students are now exposed to computer. There are many emerging application software and as the time goes by, developers improves its function. Application Software is really helpful as it makes work easier and faster. And that is one of its benefits. Since most of the students are the people ware commonly uses Application Software, the researchers conducted survey about the Benefits of Microsoft Office Application to Students of Plaridel Integrated National High School. Halim (2014) showed that Application Software are responsible for the efficient functionality of computing devices. Application Software is a program designed of users. These programs are divided into two classes: System Software and Application Software. Student’s foe the impact of Microsoft Office Application to the way the y do their homework's and presentation. They can use Microsoft Application in their studies.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK According to Trisha (2015). Microsoft Office also known as MS Office, is a popular software suite featuring many desktop publishing programs. It comes with everything that may come into use in a classic office setting, hence the name. Computer users have the option of several different Microsoft Office suites intended for students, home users, small businesses and corporations. What you choose depends on your own circumstances. According to N.A (2018). Microsoft’s Student Advantage Program provides free downloads of the full version of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access, etc.) for all students in Broward County Public Schools, for use on their personal and mobile devices (Android and iOS). The Student Advantage program helps ensure students have access to the tools they need to be successful in their education and are prepared for the technology skills required in the workforce. According to Sharma (2017). Microsoft word is an important education application. It is important to process raw facts into meaningful information. Microsoft word can benefits teachers and students to create new innovative methods of learning and teaching. Microsoft word and Microsoft office suite for students help to transmit educational materials and practice systematically in school and university faster with higher quality.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
INPUT
Profile of the respondents in terms of:
PROCESS
Questionnaire
Statistical
Treatment
OUTPUT
The Benefits of Microsoft Office Application to
Sex
Students. Age
Hobby
Interest
Study
Habits
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This study aims to generally describe the benefits of Microsoft office application to students. 1. Why students use Microsoft Office Application? 2. What is the level of benefits of Microsoft Office Application to Students in terms of: 2.1
Computation
2.2
Documentation
2.3
Presentation
2.4
Publishing
3. What is the Microsoft Office Application mostly used of students? 3.1
Word
3.2
PowerPoint
3.3
Excel
3.4
OneNote
3.5
Outlook
3.6
Publisher
3.7
Access
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
There is a need of applying what are the benefits of Microsoft Office application to students at the end of the research. This study is significant and useful to the following sectors: Students – This study will help the students to know the benefits of Microsoft Office Application and its advantages to other emerging Application Software. Teachers – This study will help the teachers to get more knowledge about Microsoft Office Applications benefits. ICT students – This study will help the ICT students to understand the value and the functions of each Microsoft Office Application than other Office Application. Parents – This study will help the parents to understand more the function of Microsoft Office Application and its Benefits. School – This study will help the school to be enlightened of the possible benefits of Microsoft Office Application.
SCOPE AND DELIMITATION
This study was limited to the Grade 12 students of Plaridel Integrated National High School (PINHS). The only focus of this study was to determine the advantages and disadvantages of internet to students. By using the Slovin’s formula (s= N/1+Ne^2), researchers got the number of respondents. The respondents of the study were 100 Grade 12 students in (PINHS). In addition, respondents were surveyed during the study to be witness or an evident to this study. The data of the students serve as the independent variable while the benefits of Microsoft office to students serve as the criterion variable.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Interpreting this result Rebalt (2014) suggested that “software has a long history and as far as the facts are known to us we will give them to you. When missing stories, data or other information are shamed to us they will put on this site.” The main benefits of Microsoft office include availability of different versions suitable for students, home users, small business and cooperation, with each application perfectly customized to suit the requirements of each users. (blog,2015) Almost any person or an organization using personal computers to handle daily documentation and number, crunching has a use for MS Office application and it is one of the most popular application suites in global use. Even the suit like application iMac users have far anything that is Apple could not demises the popularity of MS Office package saver the growing demand Microsoft office can be used in any work environment, its user friendly and not as complicated as some many think Microsoft office is the world’s best and famous work program for studying, personal use and office work. Microsoft includes access, excel, outlook, power point, publisher and word Microsoft is a word process. You can spend many time writing than formatting Microsoft excel.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOY
The chapter presents the research design, subject of the study, and procedure of the study, research instrument ad statistical treatment. RESEARCH DESIGN
The objective of this study is to know the benefits of MS Office Application
to
people
ware.
Adjective
research
design
describes
characteristics of what is being studied and it aimed to find out “what is”, so observational survey methods are frequently used to collect descriptive data (bong & Gall, 1989) the purpose of this investigation to understand the benefits that people can get when using MS office Application, and for them. SUBJECT OF THE STUDY
The respondents of the study were 100 convenient Grade 12 students from Plaridel Integrated National High School.
PROCEDURE OF THE STUDY
To conduct this study, the researchers asked permission from the school principal together with the permission of the Grade 12 students. The research obtained the total number of the respondents. The total number of respondents was 100. The administration of the benefits of Microsoft Office Application to grade 12 students was conducted by the researchers with the help of their subject advisers. Data were gathered, interpreted, and analyzed. The second stage of the data analysis was generalizing or coding the survey questions. The questionnaire for the students will reflect on the benefits that Microsoft Office Application gives to students. RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
The researcher`s research instruments used are survey questionnaire. The survey questionnaires used by the researchers were validated by the subject adviser.
STATISTICAL TREATEMENT OF DATA
Variables
Statistical Tools
Benefits of Microsoft Office Application
Percentage, Frequency
Reasons of students using Microsoft Office
Percentage, Frequency
Application Mostly used Microsoft Office Application
Percentage, Frequency
CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION, AND ANALYSIS OF DATA This chapter presents the findings of the study. The data gathered and interpretation is also presented. The study was constructed to determine the benefits of Microsoft Office Application to SHS students. The study sample consists of 100 SHS students. Figure 1. Reasons Why Students Use Microsoft Office Application
Reasons Why Students Use Microsoft Office Application
5% Documentation
28%
Computation
57% 10%
Presentation Publishing
Figure 1 presents the reasons why SHS students use Microsoft Office Application. As can be seen in the figure, 57 out of 100 students use Microsoft Office Application for Documentation, 28 of students for Presentation, 10 of students for Computation, 5 of students for Publishing.
Table 1 .Benefits of Microsoft Office Application to SHS students
Terms
Weighted Mean
Interpretation
Publishing
2.54
Not Really Helpful
Documentation
2.67
Very Helpful
Presentation
2.6
Very Helpful
Computation
2.81
Very Helpful
Table 1 reveals the benefits of Microsoft Office Application to SHS students. The Microsoft Office Application in terms of Publishing got a mean of 2.54 and interpreted to be not really helpful. Documentation got a mean of 2.67 and interpreted to be very helpful. Presentation got a mean of 2.6 and interpreted to be very helpful. Computation got a mean of 2.81 and interpreted to be very helpful.
Bar 1. Mostly used Microsoft Office Application of Students
Access Publisher Outlook 1
OneNote Excel PowerPoint Word
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Bar 1 presents the mostly used Microsoft Office Application. As can be seen in the Bar, 54 out of 100 students use Microsoft Office Word, 34 of students use PowerPoint, 10 of students use Excel, 3 of students use Publisher while OneNote, Outlook, Access got 0 mostly use among the students.
CHAPTER 5 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
This chapter shows the summary of finding, the conclusion concludes and suggests the appropriate recommendation that would provide implications for further research. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS Figure 1 presents the reasons why SHS students use Microsoft Office Application. As can be seen in the figure, 57 out of 100 students use Microsoft Office Application for Documentation, 28 of students for Presentation, 10 of students for Computation, 5 of students for Publishing. Table 1 reveals the benefits of Microsoft Office Application to SHS students. The Microsoft Office Application in terms of Publishing got a mean of 2.54 and interpreted to be not really helpful. Documentation got a mean of 2.67 and interpreted to be very helpful. Presentation got a mean of 2.6 and interpreted to be very helpful. Computation got a mean of 2.81 and interpreted to be very helpful. Bar 1 presents the mostly used Microsoft Office Application. As can be seen in the Bar, 54 out of 100 students use Microsoft Office Word, 34 of students use PowerPoint, 10 of students use Excel, 3 of students use Publisher while OneNote, Outlook, Access got 0 mostly use among the students.
CONCLUSION
From above the findings, the following conclusions were drawn: 1. The most reason why student use Microsoft Office Application is for Documentation. 2. The benefits of Microsoft Office Application in terms of Documentation, Presentation and Computation are very helpful while Publishing is not really helpful. 3. The most use Microsoft Office Application is MS Word.
RECOMMENDATION
Based on the findings explained, the researchers arrived at the following recommendations: 1. It is highly recommended to use Microsoft Office Word on Documentation. 2. It is highly recommended for students to use Microsoft Office Application of its benefits in terms of Documentation, Presentation, Computation and Publishing.
3. It is highly recommended for students to use Microsoft Office Application rather than Other Office Application.
4. It is highly recommended to use Microsoft Office Application according to its functions and abilities.
TALLY SHEET Q2 Q1
Q3
Publication
Documentation
Presentation
Computation
Word
3
3
3
2
1
1
3
3
2
3
1
1
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
2
2
1
3
3
3
3
1
2
3
3
3
1
2
3
1
1
1
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1
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1
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Presentation
Publishing
1 1 1
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1
1
1
1
PowerPoint
1
Excel
OneNote
Outlook
Publisher
Access
1
3
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Trisha (2015) https://www.techwalla.com/articles/advantages-of-microsoft-office N.A (2018) http://browardschools.com/studentadvantage Sharma (2017) http://www.klientsolutech.com/importance-of-ms-word-ineducation/
