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The refinement of knowledge in broadcasting language requires a precise distinction between comparability and applicability. The similarities and differences in the language practices - the comparability, and the relevance of language practices- applicability, regulation of the process, and the impact of the attitude exhibited by the trainees in the workplace; are the main concerns of the language learning. This study hoped to standardize the broadcasting language practices of Bulacan State University (BSU) BA Broadcasting graduating students in the Philippines by determining the level of the international comparability and applicability of the attributes in broadcasting language.

The emerging trend in the modernization of global education in the 21st century posed challenges to the teaching-learning process in the Philippines especially in the area of educational technology. It is for this concern that this study was conducted to explore the extent of competence of the teachers in utilizing various technology in teaching and discovering their influence to the learning interests of their students. The study used simple random sampling among 368 teachers and students of both public and private schools in the different Divisions of the province of Bulacan from Grade 1 to Grade 10. The researcher employed descriptive research method using survey questionnaires, frequency distribution, mean score, percentage and standard deviation to investigate the condition in the teaching-learning relative to the technology mediation utilized by the teachers. The results showed that classrooms have available basic media technology to facilitate learning and both respondents were moderately familiar in using them to classroom teaching and learning process. Relatively, both respondents find these media technologies useful in teaching and learning activities in the classroom. The study presents the conclusion that technology mediation among schools in Bulacan was integrated in the curriculum and both respondents were moderately familiar in using them.

The study aimed to determine the relationship between the students’ academic performance in Mathematics and Financial Management courses and establish a benchmark in determining the success of students in passing their major course Financial Management, which is the foundation of all major courses in the program BSBA Major in Financial Management. Results show that there was a weak positive relationship between the students’ academic performance in College Algebra and Financial Management course. The results also showed that there was a weak positive relationship between the students’ academic performance in Math of Investment and Financial Management course. It was recommended that College Algebra should also be part of the retention policy for the BSBA Financial Management Program since it was proven that it was a predictor of the students’ academic performance in Financial Management course, which is the core of all major courses in the program. It was also recommended that the required grade for both College Algebra and Math of Investment courses in the Retention Program should be at least 2.25 to increase the chances of success of students in passing their major course Financial Management, which is the foundation of all major courses in the program BSBA Major in Financial Management.

This paper presents a novel friendly and interactive Chinese character (Kanji in Japanese) learning system to enable elementary school students and foreign people living in Japan and to learn Kanji by an interesting and efficient way. By interacting with the network between the client application for students and the server application for teachers, teachers can grasp circumstances of education of all students in real-time. When students select and input characters they want to learn, the client application checks whether each stroke is unbalanced or not, and it is corrected if unbalanced. If there are no unbalanced strokes, a “Hanamaru” is displayed. On the other hand, the server application has two kinds of display modes, to display circumstances of all students and to display detail circumstances of each student, and teachers can switch them anytime. At the same time, the server takes statistics of points where each student is easy to make mistakes and saves them. So teachers can grasp circumstances and trend of all students. Moreover, pen speed and segment division are introduced in order to extract and correct local features, such as “tome”, “hane”, and “harai”, which were a weak point of previous system in spite of the important point in Kanji education. Segment division is a method that refraction points of each stroke are extracted and each stroke is subdivided by these points and is used to correct “hane” and to distinguish between “ore” and “mage”. For both of them, the correction of local features can be realized and the close correction is enabled. Finally, by using the system actually, this system is evaluated whether it is useful to be able to write and memorize Kanji correctly and the interface is really friendly for learners. As a result, since many students feel interesting and useful to learn Kanji, it is clear that this system is useful for Kanji education. And the interface is also a high appraisal.

The main objective of this study is to assess the 21st century learning skills of the students and the teaching practices in the 21st century classroom. Specifically, the study sought answers to the following questions: 1) How may the 21st century learning skills of the students be described in terms of eight (8) components of the 21st century learning skills? 2) How may the teaching practices be described in terms of 21st century learning skills? 3) Is there a significant relationship between the perception of the students on their acquired 21st century learning skills and the teaching of 21st century learning skills in the classroom based on the perception of the teachers? 4) What is the implication of this study to the teachers, students and administrators of BulSU-CoEd? This study used a descriptive method of research. Data were gathered and analyzed. Student-t and Pearson r product moment were used to test the hypothesis between the difference in the perceptions of the two groups of respondents and the relationship between them. Mean was also used to describe the summary of the questionnaire. The topmost skills of the students are; using technology as a tool for learning, self-direction skills, and collaboration. The topmost teaching practices are; local connections, creativity and innovation skills, and using technology as a tool for learning. The results indicated that the students’ perception on the 21st Century skills that they acquired are not the same as what the teachers perceived to be what they transferred. This research could serve as a basis for the seminars and workshops that may be provided to staff in-house or external.

The paper looked into the various adversities the students of Bulacan State University in studying Mandarin as a foreign language. Mandarin language has been included in the curriculum of education course of Bulacan State University. The various areas considered were reading, speaking, listening, writing, learning materials, medium of instruction and teaching methodology. The research instrument used was created by the researcher considering the four basic skills in communications and other areas in studying Mandarin where the researcher believed students are having adversities. The study revealed that students of Bulacan State University are having problem in various aspects of the study of Mandarin as foreign language more particularly on vocabulary enrichment. The researcher developed an instructional material in Mandarin that will help enrich the vocabulary of the students thereby enhancing the students competency in the mandarin language.

With the advent of the FinTech era, which is an IT technology-based financial service, the service has been transformed into a service emphasizing user-friendly convenience, and new and innovative services are always pouring out. However, due to the nature of FinTech, personal information, financial information, and physical information can be easily exposed, so countermeasures against security threats are essential. Even if we provide innovative services, if we can not provide reliable service and do not get customer’s trust, we will not only lose customers but also result in the decline of brand value. Therefore, this paper examines the security threats of the FinTech market, domestic and overseas industries, and proposes countermeasures to protect consumers from increasingly intelligent and organized security.

Due to the perpetual rise of English as second language programs in the Philippines, it is vital to determine the sociocultural adjustments of international students throughout their academic stay. The researcher conducted an interview and adopted the questionnaire of Li (2010) to gauge their sociocultural adjustments in terms of their behavior and cognitive ability. Through the Input-Process-Output model, the gathered data were treated through tabulating the frequency, percentage, and mean. After the assessment, the researcher found out that foreign students experience slight difficulty in coping up with behavior and cognitive adjustments brought by a new culture and environment. Moreover, despite the language barrier, the students were able to improve their communication skills.

The major concern of the study was to develop android - mobile application software for teaching web systems and technologies for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology students of the College of Information & Communications Technology of Bulacan State University. It made use Instructional System Design (ISD) model, which consists of five phases: (1) analysis; (2) design; (3) development; (4) implementation; and (5) evaluation and revision. The topics included in the courseware were based on the scope of the course syllabus of IT393 - Web Systems and Technologies, enabling the students to learn principles of the subject in unique approach with seven conceptualized units. Significantly, the AMAS has the following advantages: (1) Learner Control; (2) Motivation; (3) Increased interaction; (4) Individualization; (5) Lesson Integrity; (6) Immediate feedback; and (7) Ease of record keeping. Its acceptability was assessed in five dimensions: (1) subject matter content; (2) Readability; (3) Instructional design; (4) Software Operation; and (5) Usability. Moreover, considering the advantages of the software and the acceptability of the android - mobile application software approach, it was recommended that this new mode of instruction be implemented in teaching web systems and technologies.

The study aimed to the professional self-efficacy levels of Industrial Technology teachers and determine how personal and work-related factors correlate to this. Questionnaires were administered to the respondents who were purposively chosen for this research. Demographic data were taken as personal-related factors, while facilities and equipment, program culture an administrative support and professional organization were considered as indicators of work-related factors. To discern professional efficacy, knowledge improvement, attitudes and practices were taken into account as indicators. Findings showed that Work related variables are predominantly significantly related to professional efficacy rather than personal-related variables. Program culture has positive significant correlation with knowledge improvement as an indicator of professional efficacy. Administrative support and program culture have positive significant correlation with attitude as an indicator of professional efficacy.. Hence, it was concluded that work-related rather than personal-related factors had significantly influenced teachers' perception of professional self-efficacy.

This paper examines the Level of Acceptance of the parents and distinct industries from selected municipalities in the province of Bulacan, to the proposed Senior High School Curriculum, identifies which factor greatly influence the acceptance of the proposed curriculum. The 12-item self-constructed survey questionnaire was developed and validated by the researchers. The parents which represent the community have shown a result of “neutral/undecided” in four areas: family finances, K+12 awareness, government resources, and teacher preparedness. It simply means that the government which promotes this educational reform is lacking of information dissemination program to the community, particularly to the parents. On the contrary, all factors being presented to the industry representatives have shown a result of “accepted”. It shows that the industry practitioners are somehow knowledgeable to this program of government in education. In addition, based on the study conducted, the community/parents have expressed interest in the inclusion of technical-vocational competencies such as commercial cooking, food and beverage service and automotive repairs and services and employability of the future graduates in the Senior High School program.

The purpose of this study stressed on the challenge of developing context-based enrichment activities that will make connections between the concepts taught in the General and Inorganic Chemistry course taken by the General Engineering students at the Bulacan State University-Bustos Campus. The sample of the study included 50 second year General Engineering students from Bulacan State University – Bustos Campus as well as 10 chemistry instructors from the Meneses, Bustos and Malolos campuses of Bulacan State University. A need analysis and evaluation sheet of the developed contextbased enrichment activities in General and Inorganic Chemistry adapted in the study of Basilio (2006) and in consonance to the characteristics of Contextual Teaching and Learning defined by Wilson and Clifford (2000) were used to collect data related to the needs of the students to come up with an instructional material that will connect chemistry concepts to their lives and to validate the developed enrichment activities respectively. Results revealed the topics that has high relevance to the students were, gas laws, physical changes, conversion of units, factors affecting rate of solution, factors affecting solubility, types of solution, properties of solutions, variables in gases, chemical changes, substances and mixtures, states of matter, factors affecting reaction rates, types of chemical reactions, compounds, elements, ways of separating mixtures, pH and pOH, rate of reaction, colloids and concentration of solution, and these are the topics contained in the enrichment activities. The students also replied that there is a need to come up with an instructional material that will connect these concepts to their lives since these are fundamental concepts and the contextual approach will aid the convenience of learning such concepts and to enhance enduring knowledge. The evaluation of the instructors to the enrichment activities scored an acceptable mark and was commended as useful and applicable.

As the fourth industrial revolution recently emerged, Korea is attempting to cultivate SW specialists focusing on SW central universities. However, in order for universities and industry to cooperate with each other and coexist, it is necessary to conduct a preliminary survey on the status of SW education currently operating in universities and the direction of government policies. In this paper, we present the educational status of the SW-centered college in order to find out the problem and solution of the SW curriculum which is currently operated by SW central university. In addition, this paper analyzed the present state and policy of SW education in university so as to maintain the win-win relationship between SW education of university and national policy. In this paper, the contents of the SW education curriculum that the industry (consumer) needs are included based on the problems of the existing SW education, and the solutions and policies of the SW education related to the 4th industry.

The need to be skillful in assessing student performance and learning is a must for a teacher. The objectives of this study are (1) to explore the classroom assessment skills of the participants as a sequel to an earlier study wherein the findings revealed that graduates of the Teacher Education program has a weak classroom assessment skills and literacy; and (2) to find out if the teachers of the graduates are also generally weak in assessment skills and literacy. The participants of the study were the 68 faculty members of the Bulacan State University College of Education. The study was done quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings revealed that age, educational attainment and teaching experiences have a significant relationship to the teachers’ assessment skills and literacy but is not significant with gender. The result of the study shed light for some implications and reform in the teacher education curriculum and professional development.

The research focused on determining the note-taking strategies employed by 110 Fourth Year BEEd Major in General Education students. The research also examined the correlation between the frequency of employment of note-taking strategies and students’ perception of their helpfulness. Questionnaires were utilized to gather data. The study employed the descriptive-correlational method. Frequency counts, weighted mean and Pearson’s correlation were used to analyze data. Results showed a significant correlation between the use of note of notetaking strategies and students’ perception on its helpfulness (r= .521, p< .01). Furthermore, each element of notetaking strategy was also found to be significantly related to students’ perception on its helpfulness.