Table 1. Weighted Mean Distribution On Respondents' Assessment On Research Usefulness
Table 1. Weighted Mean Distribution On Respondents' Assessment On Research Usefulness
Table 1. Weighted Mean Distribution On Respondents' Assessment On Research Usefulness
The skills I have acquired in research will be helpful to me 3.36 Strongly Agree
in the future
Knowledge from research is as useful as writing 3.38 Strongly Agree
shows that the respondents see research as highly useful as justified by the overall mean
rating of 3.31 which denotes that they strongly agree that research is high useful. This
means that respondents have positive outlook on research as a highly useful endeavour.
The table further reveals that research is highly useful to the respondents especially
on their career and/or field of study as justified by the 3.27 and 3.38 overall mean rating
The table also shows that the statements “Research should be taught to all students”
and “Research should be indispensable in my professional training” got the lowest mean of
variables
Table 8 shows the MANOVA results of the attitude of the respondents towards research in
the five factors in relation to their profile variables. As gleaned from the results, at a
significance level of 0.05, there is a significant relationship between number of education
units earned and attitude of the respondents. This denotes that the number of units earned
is a factor that can influence the kind of difficulty respondents encounter in doing research.
Aside from that, the table above also shows that another factor to consider in the kind of
difficulty encountered is position. Looking at the results, there seem to be a disparity in terms
of difficulty across different positions. Results also showed that respondents of higher
position tend to experience less difficulty than those at the lower position.
In addition, the table also unveils that there is a significant relationship between lenght of
service and research anxiety as well as difficulty. (alpha .05>sig. 0.043; and alpha .05>sig.
0.008). This signifies that attitude towards research in terms of anxiety and difficulty differ
across different number of years in the service. Data showed that those who are
experienced teacher tend to have better attitude towards research in terms anxiety and
difficulty compared to those neophytes. This could be attributed that respondents with higher
number of years in the service tend to have more experience that those novice respondents.
Clearly, number of educational units earned, position and number of years in the service are
factors that can influence the attitude of the respondents towards research.