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Research Writing Difficulties and Performance of Students in Practical Research

Using a descriptive-correlational research design, this study is an attempt to determine the relationship between the students' perception on research writing difficulties and their performance in Practical Research. Specifically, it dealt on finding the perceived writing difficulties of 80 senior high school STEM and HUMSS students with regard to the technical aspect and process of research writing through a closedended survey questionnaire; evaluating the performance of students in their actual research outputs through researcher-modified holistic and analytic rubrics; and finding the correlation between the students' perceived writing difficulties and their performance in Practical Research using Pearson ProductMoment Correlation Coefficient. The results indicate that the respondents generally agree to have been experiencing difficulties in both the technical aspect that includes research paper format and grammar and sentence construction; as well as in the process of res...

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Research writing remains a cumbersome for many learners in senior high school. Millions et al. (as cited in Bernardo, 2010) claims that writing an academic paper remains a difficult and intimidating task for learners. This resulted to research anxiety which is one of the most common anxieties in higher education (Ashrafi-Rizi et al., 2014). While it is true that academic writing can be considered an appalling task amongst students, most of the studies on the area of writing anxiety were already done using critical essays, journal entries, and articles in the English courses as data but few for research or thesis paper. Hence, the present study aims to determine if there is a significant relation between the students' attitude towards research and their scores both in writing research proposal and presentation. 64 Grade 12 students were surveyed using the Attitude towards Research (ATR) scale by Papanastasiou (2002). Three factors were measured using correlation, i.e., (1) research usefulness, (2) research anxiety and (3) positive predispositions in research. The study revealed that students have positive attitude for the first and third factor mentioned whereas the second factor is in neutral level. There was no significant association between the research attitude and grades of the students. Practical and personalized pedagogical approach such as collaborative/cooperative learning activities, concept mapping, games, mock defense and simplified research paper format are recommended to teachers to mitigate students' anxiety. Personal research experience should be shared also to the students to engage and appreciate research more.

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