THE RELIABILITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN DE LA

SALLE - COLLEGE OF SAINT BENILDE'S LEARNING RESOURCE

CENTER(LRC) FOR THE USE OF SHRIM STUDENTS

A Statistical Research Paper

Submitted to
Ms. Jeannie G. Blandeaux

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Course STATIHM

Submitted By:
Cano, Maria Elaine B.
Agopitac, Roxane Andrea
De Los Reyes, Rodicka Mae
Mendiola, Princess
Lorbes, Emmanuel Joshua
Lim, Stephen John
I. INTRODUCTION
 The school library is integral to the teaching and learning process of students. The
school library facilitates the work of the classroom teacher and ensures each student has
equitable access to resources, irrespective of home opportunities or constraints. It plays
an essential role in providing reliable, accessible and free educational resource center for
both teachers and students. Libraries have been around for 5,000 years and since then
it is considered as a portal of world’s knowledge long before the internet and google is
present. Unlike search engines, libraries forster critical thinking, providing students with
the skills they need to analyze, firm and communicate their ideas in enthralling ways. Most
schools has libraries to move the needs of specific courses in college but as the
information needed becomes even rarer and harder to find so in turn libraries should have
to be equally equipped for the needs of their students and have a wide variety of
resources that are reliable and readily available to cater to students’ need.

Alemna, (2000) states that for centuries libraries have served as repositories of
information and knowledge that have provided the vital underpinnings for socio-
economic, political and cultural development in any civilization. Their relationship with
cultural progress has been so interdependent that it is needless to argue whether man’s
cultural advancement merely produces libraries as by product.

In the end, we want to figure out if the school library is being used by students
here in the Angelo King International Center. In this age of information, we will be able
to see if students actually go to the library to acquire their information needed. Being
able to see and compare how these mediums of information are used by the students
could potentially help us understand these sources better and possibly improve our
learning resource centers here in De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde.

II. Population and Sample:

The population gathered in this research are SHRIM students who are currently enrolled
this 1st term SY 2018-2019. As an International Hospitality Management student we are
interested to know if the learning resource center (LRC) in Angelo King International
Center contributes to student learning, and helps to meet the needs of students in
collecting and gathering information. According to the registrar’s office there are a total of
2048 students in SHRIM department that are enrolled for this term. Using Slovin’s formula
and a 5% margin of error, the required number of sample is 335. The group decided to
use equal allocation. Thus the samples are randomly selected SHRIM students from 1st
year to 4th year HRIM and IHM students as the comparison groups, for a total of 200. We
will be using the Descriptive- comparative design for the research. Both courses use
online and offline sources and rely heavily on research and facts but for different
purposes. We would like to know if the Learning resource center is being useful to both
student to achieve their academic goals.

Computation for n at e = 5%;

Table 1: Number of Samples by Course

COURSE Number of Percent No. of Samples No. of Actual
Students Using Samples Sample size
Proportional Using Equal approved
Allocation Allocation

BS-HRIM 1765 .8618 289 168 100

BS-IHM 283 .1381 46 168 100

Total N=2048 .9999 n= 335 n= 336 200

Sampling and Data Gathering Techniques:

The group used simple random sampling in choosing the sample respondents in this research.
The group utilized the indirect or questionnaire method, but due to time constraints, the group’s
teacher allowed the class to just survey at least 200 samples. The group distributed 200
questionnaires from October 29 to November 09 to SHRIM students around the campus. Each
member of the group will disseminate the questionnaire through social media platforms like
Facebook, Benilde email and around the campus, each will have 33 questionnaires to give and
the leader will give 35. All members of the group will and must give the questionnaires to the
random student’s, first year to fourth year, BS HRIM and BS IHM students only.

III. Research Questions

A.
The aim of this research is to find out the reliability of the educational resources in De La Salle -
College of Saint Benilde’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) for the use of SHRIM Students.
Specifically, we will try to answer the following research questions:
1. What is the profile of the respondents?
a. Degree Program
b. Age

2. What proportion of students visit the LRC once to thrice a week, every midterms/finals week,
everyday, or never at all?
a. Proportion of students who visit the LRC once to thrice a week
b. Proportion of students who visit the LRC every midterms/finals exam week
c. Proportion of students who visit the LRC everyday
d. Proportion of students who never visit the LRC

3. What proportion of students visit the LRC to sleep/nap, to study, to find a book/magazine/CD,
or to wait for next class?
a. Proportion of students who visit the LRC to sleep/nap
b. Proportion of students who visit the LRC to study
c. Proportion of students who visit the LRC to find a book, magazine, CD, etc.
d. Proportion of students who visit the LRC to wait for next class

4. What proportion of students prefer to study either at the LRC, at home, at public areas in school,
at sites outside school?
a. Proportion of students of students who prefer to study at the LRC
b. Proportion of students of students who prefer to study at home
c. Proportion of students of students who prefer to study at public areas in school
d. Proportion of students of students who prefer to study at sites outside of school

5. What proportion of students rate the resources or facilities available at the LRC as very
satisfactory, satisfactory, acceptable, and inapplicable?
a. Proportion of “VERY SATISFACTORY”
b. Proportion of “SATISFACTORY”
c. Proportion of “ACCEPTABLE”
d. Proportion of “INAPPLICABLE”

6. What is the degree of agreement/disagreement of SHRIM students with the reliability of De La

Salle - College of Saint Benilde’s Learning Resource Center?
a. Degree of agreement
b. Degree of disagreement

7. What improvements can be made to the LRC according to the respondents?

B: The following Hypothesis were tested at 0.05 level of significance:

Question 1: Is there a significant difference between the degree of agreement/disagreement
between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the reliability of the Learning Resource Center in
Angelo King International Center?

Ho: PLRC = Po There is a significant difference between the degree of

agreement/disagreement between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the reliability of the
Learning Resource Center in Angelo King International Center?

Ha: PLRC ≠ Po: There is no significant difference between the degree of

agreement/disagreement between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the reliability of the
Learning Resource Center in Angelo King International Center?

IV. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION of DATA

Research Question 1:

What is the profile of the respondents?

DEGREE PROGRAM:

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Findings:
A total of 71 students are from BS-IHM(International Hospitality Management), and 49
students from BS-HRIM (Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management)

Conclusions:
Most students who took the survey are from SHRIM (School of Hotel, Restaurant and
Institution Management) who are primarily taking up their classes in AKIC.

AGE:
Table 2
BS IHM BS SHRIM BS IHM BS SHRIM

20 19

19 20 Mean 20.0563 Mean 20.1224

23 19 Standard Error 0.1373 Standard Error 0.1587

22 20 Median 20 Median 20

20
19 21 Mode 21 Mode

Standard 1.1574 Standard 1.1111

19 23 Deviation Deviation

Sample 1.3396 Sample 1.2346

21 20 Variance Variance

21 18 Kurtosis -0.1596 Kurtosis 0.2238

20 21 Skewness 0.0581 Skewness 0.7013

21 20 Range 5 Range 5

19 21 Minimum 18 Minimum 18

18 20 Maximum 23 Maximum 23

19 18 Sum 1424 Sum 986

21 19 Count 71 Count 49

23 20

21 22

22 20

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20 20

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19 23

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19 21

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18 21

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21 21

21 21

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20 21

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Research Question 2:
What proportion of students visit the LRC once to thrice a week, every midterms/finals week,
everyday, or never at all?
Findings:
46 students (38.3%) visit the LRC only around thrice a week. During midterms the same
amount of 46 (38.3%) visit the LRC. Everyday about 26 (21.7%) of people visit the LRC
while only 2 (1.7%) has never visited the LRC.
Conclusions:
Most people go to the LRC often but not everyday and also a large amount of people go
to the LRC when it is the Midterms/Finals week.

Research Question 3:
What proportion of students visit the LRC to sleep/nap, to study, to find a book/magazine/CD, or
to wait for next class?
Findings:
62 students (51.7%) visit the LRC to study, same as the 62 students (51.7%) is waiting
for their next class while 23 students (19.2%) go to lrc to sleep or nap and the remaining
6 students (5%) choose to find a book cd's and magazine.

Conclusions:
Most students go to LRC for studying and to wait for their next class to take a rest

Research Question 4:
What proportion of students prefer to study either at the LRC, at home, at public areas in school,
at sites outside school?
Findings:
50 students (41.7%) studies at home, 43 students (35.8%) studies at LRC, 22 (18.3%)
studies on sites outside of school and 5 (4.2%) studies on public areas of school
Conclusions:
Most of the students studies at home but there is also a large amount of students who
use LRC for studying.

Research Question 5:
What proportion of students rate the resources or facilities available at the LRC as very
satisfactory, satisfactory, acceptable, and inapplicable?

Table 5
Findings:
50.8% of people have stated that the resources found in the LRC are very satisfactory.
Only a 1.7% of people have said it is inapplicable.
Conclusions:
A very large majority of SHRIM students are satisfied with the learning resources found
in the LRC.

Table 3: Mean Interpretation

Scale Interpretation
 1.00 – 1.79 Very Strongly Disagree VSD

1.80 – 2.59 Disagree D

2.60 – 3.39 Agree A

3.40 – 4.19 Strongly Agree SA

4.20 – 5.00 Very Strongly Agree VSA

Table 4: The Degree of Agreement of BS IHM

Statements 5 4 3 2 1 X SD

1. Resources are appropriate for my 4.0140 1.3254

course needs.

2. Resources are current and relevant 3.9859 1.3468

3.Computers and electronic equipment 3.8591 1.3762

are accessible in the library

4.LRC book/magazine collection meets 3.9718 1.3413

my research needs

5. Library space is adequate. 4.0281 1.2980

Grand Mean/Std. dev. 3.9718 1.3391

 Table 5: Mean Interpretation
Scale Interpretation

1.00 – 1.79 Very Strongly Disagree VSD

1.80 – 2.59 Disagree D

2.60 – 3.39 Agree A

3.40 – 4.19 Strongly Agree SA

4.20 – 5.00 Very Strongly Agree VSA

Table 6: The Degree of Agreement of BS HRIM

Statements 5 4 3 2 1 X SD

1. Resources are appropriate for my 4.4897 1.1203

course needs.

2. Resources are current and relevant 4.4.287

1.1180

3.Computers and electronic equipment 4.3061

1.1031
are accessible in the library

4.LRC book/magazine collection meets 4.4285 1.0606

my research needs
 5. Library space is adequate. 4.3469 1.1096

Grand Mean/Std. dev. 4.4017 1.1044

Table 7: Mean Interpretation

Scale Interpretation

1.00 – 1.79 Very Strongly Disagree VSD

1.80 – 2.59 Disagree D

2.60 – 3.39 Agree A

3.40 – 4.19 Strongly Agree SA

4.20 – 5.00 Very Strongly Agree VSA

Table 8: The Degree of Agreement of both BS IHM & BS HRIM

Statements 5 4 3 2 1 X SD

1. Resources are appropriate for my 4.2083 1.2628

course needs.
 2. Resources are current and relevant 4.1666 1.2724

3.Computers and electronic equipment 4.0416 1.2859

are accessible in the library

4.LRC book/magazine collection meets 4.1583 1.2501

my research needs

5. Library space is adequate. 4.1583 1.2501

Grand Mean/Std. dev. 4.1466 1.2656

Findings:

Looking back at Table we can see that majority (50.8%) is very satisfied with the current
state of the LRC, while 34.2% are just satisfied with it. Comparing that too 1.7% of people
stating that it is inapplicable.

Conclusions:
Majority of SHRIM students are satisfied with the current state of the LRC.

Research Question 6:
What is the degree of agreement/disagreement of SHRIM students with the reliability of De La
Salle - College of Saint Benilde’s Learning Resource Center?

Findings: 85% or 102 respondents agreed with the reliability of De La Salle - College of Saint
Benilde’s Learning Resource Center while 15% or 18 respondents disagreed with the reliabily of
De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde’s Learning Resource Center

Research Question 7:
What improvements can be made to the LRC according to the respondents?
Findings:
Most of the suggestions from students have something to do with the ambiance of the
LRC. May it be better chairs, better ambience, extension cords for each table, etc. Another
suggestions is to upgrade the computers and for them to unblock social media such as
Facebook since this platform is often used to communicate with other students.
Lastly, another topic that is always brought up is more books. More engaging books or
interesting books that they can also read on their spare time. Most books in the LRC are
outdated or does not look appealing to students. Plus it is very daunting to look at.

Conclusions:
Students want the LRC to be more convenient. Things such as unblocking social media
to its computers, to adding more chairs and better ones show that students just want a
better LRC than the one we are getting today. They should showcase new and interesting
books often to let more people read inside too.

V. The following hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance

Question 6: Is there a significant difference between the degree of agreement/disagreement

between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the reliability of the Learning Resource Center in
Angelo King International Center?

Step 1:
Ho: PLRC = Po There is a significant difference between the degree of
agreement/disagreement between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the reliability of the
Learning Resource Center in Angelo King International Center?

Ha: PLRC ≠ Po: There is no significant difference between the degree of

agreement/disagreement between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the reliability of the
Learning Resource Center in Angelo King International Center

Step 2: α =0.05; p-value = 0.2088 , Two tailed, non-directional

Step 3: Reject Ho if p-value 0.2088, ≤ α (0.05)
Step 4: Reject Ho because p-value = 0.2088 < α (0.05)
Step 5: Conclusion: I therefore conclude that there is no significant difference between
the degree of agreement/disagreement between BS IHM and BS HRIM students on the
reliability of the Learning Resource Center in Angelo King International Center]\
VI. General conclusions

Based on the data gathered, we have 71 students from International

Hospitality Program and 49 students from Hotel and Restaurant Institutional
Management who dedicated their time answering our questions. The
outcome shows that majority of the population from both courses prefer to
do their research and study at home. However, both IHM AND HRIM
respondents agreed that the LRC meets the need of their respective courses
because of its reliable material and accessibility.

In addition majority of respondents showed that they often go to the LRC

especially during midterms and finals week to study. This shows that they
frequently visit LRC for academic purposes. It implies that the resources and
facilities to be found in LRC are useful and relevant to both courses therefore,
reliable.

We conclude that the reliability of the educational resources in De La Salle -

College of St. Benilde Learning Resource Center (LRC) in AKIC Campus
helps both respondents finish their research and study because of the wide
variety of resources and is indeed very useful, convenient and reliable for
both respondents.
VII. General Inferences

Majority of the population of students who took the survey are highly satisfied
with the current LRC. Although it shows that they prefer to do their research
at home with 41.7 percent, it was followed by the LRC with 35.8 percent .
Provided by the percentage above, it doesn’t change the fact that most
SHRIM students find the LRC to be reliable. The study reveals that with the
current resources that the library provides, students are available to do their
school research without any added difficulty hence the question is answered
that the reliability of LRC is very high.

VIII. Recommendations:

a) For DLS-CSB Administrators and Faculty

Although most students are quite satisfied with the current LRC in Akic, there is still room
for improvement for a better Learning Resource Center. The following are compiled
recommendations of the students:

- Introduce new selection of books / interesting books

- Provide more space for students to study
- Upgrade computers just like the ones in LRC Main
- Unblock facebook because most of the school works are mailed through
messenger
- Provide extension cords for every table for the use of charging laptops
- Provide sleeping pod for students for a quick nap while studying.

In addition to the recommendations provided, the faculty should promote the use of LRC
and help students to become more aware of the resources, and facilities that our Library
can offer.

b) For the students

Students are advised to make use of the LRC in the most appropriate way possible. They
should make use of the free sources of information designed specifically for their use.
They should take advantage of this and utilize them for further learning and not for other
unproductive activities.

IX. REFERENCES

http://www.debate.org/opinions/are-books-better-than-the-internet
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/NLW-05-2015-
0040?journalCode=nlw

Spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1phMB24yeQN5KSgwYLgeX
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VAt2W0gsjjWkxvAmBiEQdg-
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Survey:
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