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Cernol, Pamela O., Razo-Jumapit, Sumplicia, MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, February 1990. “THE DEVELOPMENTAL HIGH SCHOOL SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’  UNDERSTANDING OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS, 1989-1990.”

Adviser:Prof. Myrna E. LAhoylahoy, Prof. Raphia B. Maglinao

A study was conducted on the Developmental High School second year students’ understanding of photosynthesis to find out how these students who did not study advanced biology courses understand how the world functions in relation to photosynthesis and related concept. Five central concepts related to photosynthesis were studied: oxygen release by plants, respiration, autotrophic feeding, food and harnessing the sun’s energy.

        

The samples of seventy seven students were of two groups-the thirty four(34) second year high school students in the special science Curriculum and Forty three (43) General Revised Secondary Curriculum(GRSC) Students of the Developmental high School(DRS) in MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) SCHOOL YEAR 1989-1990 obtained through atratified random sampling.

       

   Results of the study revealed that the students in SSC and GRSC understand the role of photosynthesis in the ecosystem. This is evidenced by their passing score in the whole test in which the criteria for understanding  is at least sixty per cent (60%) correct responses on each topic of the test and sixty per cent (60%) correct responses of whole test. 

    However, there was a certain concept in which the respondents found difficulty in understanding. This concept is the concept of respiration. Certain misconception was found in the meaning of respiration which was percieved as gas exchange only.

 The most striking difference on the responses between two groups was revealed in the students’ undestanding of respiration. Nobody from the SSC gave the correct responses while only eight (8) out of forty three (43) from the GRSC gave the correct response. For the remaining four topics, SSC students showed better marks than the GRSC students. However, in general, there was no significant difference  observed  between the responses given by two groups.

Calvo, Annaliza B. and Tayona, Alma C,. MSU- IligaN Institute of Technology, Iligan City, “ The Secondary Laboratory Facilities in Iligan City as percieved by the Chemistry 1991-1992.

Adviser: Prof. Esmar N. Sedurifa.

The study was conducted to survey the condition of Iligan Cityy as percieved by the Chemistry instructors or teachers.

This study aimed to find out the actual condition of the chemistry laboratory facilities used by Secondary Schools in Iligan City in term of its adequacios in laboratory equipement and materials and chemicals. Relationship between those  items with number of student groups  in class was  determined.

The subject of the study were the twenty three (23)third year chemistry instructors. Data were obtained through questionnaire which was subdivided into two parts, the actual condition of the chemistry laboratory and its general assessment by the respondents. To determined the adequacy of chemistry laboratory equipments, laboratory rooms, and chemicals, rating was employed. In determining the retionship between the number of groups and adequacy of laboratory rooms in the chemistry .

Aparecio, Betty M., Ebot, Rowena P., MSU-IIT Institute of Technology, Iligan City, 1991. “Performance Written Laboratory Test of MSU-IIT Secondary Biology Students School Year 1991-1992”

Adviser: Prof.  Rafhia Maglinao

This study tried to determine the performance written laboratory test of MSU-IIT Secondary Biology students in four areas of laboratory skills namely: manipulative skills, acquisitive skills, communicative skills, and cognitive skills. More specially the study tried to deterine the differences between male and female performance in written laboratory and the relationship between their performance in written laboratory test their first periodic grade in biology.

A questionnaire as a tool was administered to thirty nine students. The questionnaire was composed of twenty items test with five items in manipulative skills, five on acquisitive skills, five in cognitive skills, and five in communicative skills. The questionnaire was prepared by the researchers and was subjected to review, corrections and vali.dations by three biology teachers in MSU-IIT.




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Christopher W. Berry

An Experimental Approach to the Roles of Focus and Achievement Motivation in Flow and the Autotelic Personality

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Cavan Boyle 

An Investigation of Automatic-Processing: Extracting Race and Gender Information from Faces using a Task-Choice Procedure

Much experimental research has examined the concept of automaticity. Many argue that automatic mental processes are stimulus initiated, unavoidable, and cannot be interrupted (Posner & Snyder, 1975; Neely & Kahan, 2001). One way to study whether mental processes are automatic in this sense is to use a dual-task procedure. The present study seeks to determine whether race and gender information is extracted automatically from faces using one such dual-task procedure, the task-choice procedure. The sample consisted of 40 undergraduate college students. Results indicate that gender but not race information is extracted automatically from pictures of faces.

Priya Dahanukar Brandes 

The Effect of Musical Valence on Moral Reasoning and Moral Judgments

Recent research conducted by Joshua Greene attempts to reconcile the differences between how philosophers and psychologists have understood human morality and moral judgments. Greene has proposed that there is a cognitive component and an emotional component to moral decision-making which are both necessary but competitive in nature. The cognitive component of the model appraises the situation and serves to control the initial emotional response. This study aims to see how emotional load impacts cognitive control over initial affective reactions in moral dilemmas. Using a sample of 94 undergraduate students with random assignment to experimental condition, participants were presented with a music clip in order to induce positive, negative, or neutral affect, followed by a series of 25 moral judgments. While results indicated that music was a powerful mood modulator, results did not support the hypothesis that positively-valenced mood would prompt greater utilitarian responding while negatively-valenced mood would elicit non-utilitarian choice. Results are discussed in the context of Greene’s model of moral reasoning. Criticism that violent or depressing music can lead to young adult suicide and violence is also discussed.

David Broder

The Mediating Effects of Social Support on the Link between Humor and Physical Health

The idea that humor can improve one’s health has been a theory for years in both research and popular media. Past studies have examined whether or not laughter improved immediate physiological symptoms such as blood pressure, and other studies have attempted to look at how humor affects stress. The current study explores whether there are adaptive and maladaptive types of humor and then determines if one leads to more social support and further, better physical health. Participants were 185 undergraduates from Bates College and they completed a questionnaire with measures for sense of humor, perceived social support, and physical symptoms. What was found was that all significant correlations between humor and health could be attributed to optimism, extraversion, or neuroticism.

David Brustlin

The Relationship Between Self-Concept Differentiation and Divorce

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