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CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents a description of the research design selection and

description of respondents, research instruments, data collection procedure and

statistical treatments used.

3.1 Research Design

In order to see the general picture of the impact of social networking sites

as information dissemination tool of government agencies as perceived by the

second year Foreign Service students of Lyceum of the Philippines University

Cavite Campus, the descriptive correlational survey method was used.

As a descriptive study, it collected detailed and factual information to

describe existing phenomena. It systematically described the situation or area of

interest factually and accurately. It allowed the researchers to carefully describe

and understand the behaviour. This study was correlational for it demanded the

degree to which the variables were related to each other using various statistical

instruments.

3.2 Variables and Measures

The table below showed the variables and measures used in the study.

Variables Measures

1. Role of Social Networking Sites Questions that would determine the

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in the current communication and

information dissemination.

respondent’s view on the role of

Social Networking Sites in the

current communication information

dissemination.

2. Impact of social networking sites

as an information dissemination

tool of government agencies.

Set of questions regarding the impact

of Social Networking Sites as

information dissemination tool of

government agencies.

3. Possible benefits of these social

networking sites as public

dissemination tool of government

agencies to students taking up

Foreign Service.

Questions that would establish the

possible benefits of Social

Networking Sites as public

dissemination tool of government

agencies to students taking up

Foreign Service.

3.3 Sampling Design

The study used Simple Random Sampling in determining the samples of

the study. All second year Foreign Service students in the Lyceum of the

Philippines University Cavite Campus were the respondents of this study.

3.4 Research Respondents

The researchers considered the second year Foreign Service students of

the Lyceum of the Philippines University Cavite Campus comprising of 82

members, male and female. They were the chosen respondents because their

course has to do with government service. Moreover, their generation is evidently

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more dependent on technology than the way people used to before. In addition to

this, Social Networking Sites for them is not only a way of communication and

socialization but also a good way of searching information.

3.5 Research Instrument

A questionnaire was used in gathering data. The questionnaire has 3 parts.

The questionnaire consisted of items that determined the impact of social

networking sites as information dissemination tool of government agencies.

3.6 Research Locale

The study was conducted at the Lyceum of the Philippines University

Cavite Campus since the chosen respondents are students of the University,

3.7 Data Gathering Procedure

The researchers personally administered the research instruments to the

respondents. They conferred and discussed the significance of the study and

accomplished the distribution of the instruments properly.

The respondents were given 15 minutes to accomplish the forms to

prevent them from giving hasty responses. The researchers went from one section

to another on collecting the accomplished questionnaires.

After the questionnaires have been accomplished, the results were tallied

and tabulated. These data became the bases of analysis and interpretation.

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3.8 Data Analysis

In determining the impact of social networking sites as information

dissemination tool of government agencies as perceived by the second year

Foreign Service students, the Likert Scale has been used. It used a five-point

scale; each point corresponding to a Likert item.

Point Scale Verbal Interpretation

5 4.2 – 5 Strongly Agree

4 3.4 – 4.19 Agree

3 2.6 – 3.9 neither agree nor disagree

2 1.8 – 2.59 Disagree

1 1.0 – 1.79 Strongly Disagree

Formula:

ƩWX

N

Where:

W = points (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

X = number of respondents per weight

N = total number of respondents

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X =