Academic Performance of the Students in the Blended and In-Person Modality: A Mixed Methods Study

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of blended learning and in-person learning on the academic performance of the students. Further, it was also aimed to explore the views, challenges, and coping mechanisms of the selected students in Manat National High School, Manat, Nabunturan, Davao de Oro for school year 2023-2024. This research study employed the explanatory sequential mixed methods with a quantitative ex post facto research approach in order to determine the effects of blended distance learning on the academic performance of grade 8 students who were enrolled in Manat National High School for the school year 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, while also exploring experiences, challenges, and coping mechanism of the identified students during its implementation. For the quantitative phase a two hundred sixty two learners were subjected and it was discovered that students performed better during the blended distance learning as they got the overall mean of 85.87 on the school year 2022-2023 while the overall mean on the school year 2023-2024 was 84.26 on the same three subjects, English, Mathematics, and Science. For the qualitative phase, five students were chosen to explore the experiences, challenges and coping mechanism. The emerging themes on experiences were assistance or support received during blended distance learning, the emerging themes on the explored challenges were challenges impacting distance learning experience, the emerging themes on coping mechanism were ways to adapt to blended learning modality. There was a significant difference in their academic performance in blended distance than the in-person class.

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