Rochelle Irene G. Lucas's research while affiliated with De La Salle University and other places

Publications (17)

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Mother Tongue Education (MTE) in the Philippines seeks to educate learners from kindergarten to 3rd grade using their mother tongues. However, in Linguistically Diverse Contexts (LDCs) where multiple mother tongues are spoken, a lingua franca is nominated as the alternative MOI. Against this backdrop, our study explores the language attitudes of mu...
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Filipino students ranked last in reading proficiency among all countries/territories in the PISA 2018, with only 19% meeting the minimum (Level 2) standard. It is imperative to understand the range of factors that contribute to low reading proficiency, specifically variables that can be the target of interventions to help students with poor reading...
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Research universities play an important role in developing new technologies that can be the basis for economic development, improved quality of life, and reduced environmental impacts. In developing countries, there have been accelerated efforts to transform teaching-oriented higher education institutions into research-intensive universities that c...
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The global scientific community has intensified efforts to develop, test, and commercialize pharmaceutical products to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Trials for both antivirals and vaccines are in progress; candidates include existing repurposed drugs that were originally developed for other ailments. Once these are shown to be effective, their p...
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The E-Learning Outreach Program (ELOP) is a multisectoral, collaborative, and commitment-driven action research that focuses on providing relevant and useful computer and Internet literacy short courses for public elementary students. This study presents the critical action plans of setting up a pilot e-Learning station in Hen. Pio del Pilar Elemen...
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The global scientific community has intensified efforts to develop, test, and commercialize pharmaceutical products to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Trials for both antivirals and vaccines are in progress; candidates include existing repurposed drugs that were originally developed for other ailments. Once these products are shown to be effective...
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This study deals with the problem of human resources planning due to the additional workforce requirements of research activities. In practice, planning of human resource expansion is seldom done in a systematic manner, thus leading to sub-optimal results. In this work, a P-graph model is developed as a decision support tool to aid in planning expa...
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The E-learning Outreach Program is a multisectoral, collaborative, and commitment-driven action research that focuses on providing innovative, useful and interactive information literacy coursework for public elementary pupils. It sets to benchmark from existing e-learning program initiated by Hope Street Foundation, a nonprofit organization that p...
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Although selection problems are often encountered in engineering practice, rigorous decision analysis techniques remain underutilized in undergraduate chemical engineering education. In particular, the conventional chemical engineering curriculum lacks a strong foundation in such methods, despite the fact that other quantitative tools (e.g., mathem...
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Problem-based Learning (PBL) is regarded by many education experts as superior to the traditional lecture, particularly for learning higher-order skills and concepts. PBL can be further reinforced through the utilization of metacognitive skills on the part of the students. Such approaches are particularly useful in Process Systems Engineering (PSE)...
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The emergence of information and communication technology (ICT) has created opportunities for enhancing the learning process at different educational levels. However, its potential benefits can only be fully realized if teachers are properly trained to utilize such tools. The rapid evolution of ICT also necessitates rigorous assessment of training...
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The current study explored the different attitudes of bilingual high school students towards English and Filipino and examined the relationship of language attitudes in terms of gender, age, and socio-economic status (SES). A total of 473 Filipino participants, randomly selected from three secondary learning institutions (two public, one private),...
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The study explores correlates of Filipino students' reasons for amotivation in learning English as a second language. Students answered questionnaires on reasons for amotivation, approaches to learning, and language use outside school. Results show that amotivation is positively associated with surface learning approaches but negatively associated...
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Process systems engineering (PSE) in the field of chemical engineering education requires a systems approach to process design and process integration which emphasizes the unity of the processes and considers the interactions between different unit operations and processes. Understanding the behavior and interaction of such systems often times requ...
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Researchers have suggested that there is a noun bias in children's early vocabularies brought about by features of adults' child-directed utterances, which may vary across languages (E. V. Bates et al., 1994; D. Gentner, 1982). In the present study, the authors explored noun bias in 60 Filipino-English bilingual children whose 2 languages differed...
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Portfolios are collections of students' works over time. They often document students' best works and may include other types of process information such as drafts of the students' work, the students' self-assessment of the work, and the parents' assessment. Portfolios may be used for evaluation of students' abilities and progress. The study involv...

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... These accommodations of the status of English in education have received various support and positive attitudes towards its use, especially from the stakeholders despite the retreat of the colonial rule and the advocating of multilingual education (Lai, 2001;Choy and Troudi, 2006;Bokhorst-Heng and Caleon, 2009;Mahboob and Cruz, 2013). The educational systems have reinforced the power of English, which has resulted in the perceived practical use of English as the language used to talk to foreigners (Ponce and Lucas, 2021) and as an index of intelligence (Bacon and Kim, 2018); hence, the people, in general, maintain the status of English as the language of education for the most part because of these notions. ...
... An integrative theoretical model was used that takes into account the critical roles of 41 different demographic, personal, and social-contextual factors in predicting reading achievement. In a different study [37] for PISA 2018, the researchers used binary classification methods to identify the variables that best predicted reading proficiencies of Filipino students. In [38], the researchers investigated the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between academic achievement and parental emotionalacademic support. ...
... The quality of education seriously impacts the student employment and job prospects of new graduates. The characteristics of universities for graduate employment have been discussed under the research variances [6], [7]. It contains variables used to establish the university's reputation and ranking. ...
... Furthermore, it was only in the later months of 2021 where face-toface learning was implemented (DepEd, 2021).Preparation of self-learning modules (Agayon, et al There are a number of teachers' traits to which ERT becomes effective. On top of it is readiness, whichis measured based on the availability of e-learning infrastructures and the ability of teachers in using and managing learning management systems (Alqabbani, et al., 2021;Martin, et al., 2019).Study of Ventayen (2018) showed that DepEd teachers are ready for online learning; however, ICT infrastructures still need major development (Nuncio, et al., 2020;Galeon, et al., 2019;Arinto, 2016).Second is the teachers' satisfaction with their ERT experiences as such is crucial specially in continuing the use of high-impact e-learning. Also, teachers' satisfaction proved to be essential factor in influencing their ability to employ a learning management system and their perceived quality performance (Yengin, et al., 2011 as cited by Alqabbani, et al., 2021).Another is teachers' perceived level of effectiveness towards the implementation of ERT. ...
... Studies related to healthcare allocation modeling mainly differ in terms of optimization objectives and approaches. The objectives of optimization include distance [41], death number [42], risk [43], cost [31], and fairness [44]. The optimization methods include dynamic planning [45], random planning [46], and multi-objective planning [47,48]. ...
... In HEIs, it is primarily responsible for ensuring that the workforce accompaniment is adequate for the organization's plans and policies (Aviso et al., 2019). An effective and efficient plan of human resources for administrators, faculty, non-teaching personnel, and students should be implemented in order to achieve the institutional goal. ...
... For the refining and chemical enterprise, there existed many kinds and levels of emergencies, resulting in the complex emergency management system and the wide range of emergency rescue, which led to the large number of emergency response capability evaluation indicators, the cumbersome of evaluation process, the large amount of workload and other problems. In this paper, all factors involved in the emergency response capability evaluation were condensed and divided into six sub capabilities (shown in Fig. 2) based on the principle of fishbone analysis, and the emergency response capability of refining and chemical enterprises was evaluated from these six aspects [12] [13] [14] [15]. Based on the fishbone analysis method, the elements of six sub item capability indicators were sorted out, and the evaluation points of various capability indicators were summarized as follow. ...
... Planning, monitoring, evaluation, and revising are recapitalized as metacognitive skills (Veenman, 2012) which encourage a student's "inner mental dialogue" during the projectmaking process that enhances proficiency (Promentilla et al., 2017). Metacognitive processing in design action involves monitoring the current state of your knowledge, or how well you are doing in your work, and making adjustments to improve your project design (Hargrove & Nietfeld, 2015). ...
... Connection between human and nature in biophilic cities can create a positive and protective attitude to the environment. Building and landscapes that has compatible connection with ecosystem and local habitats tend to be highly effective design strategy and preferred in the concept of biophilic cities [30]. ...
... These articles examined stakeholders' experience or satisfaction with the intervention; its match with the needs, cultures, or circumstances of intended or actual participants; or the extent to which participants were willing to incorporate the intervention into their ongoing activities. For example, Jaradat (2017) investigated student satisfaction with a university-based information technology and computer science internship training program, and Lucas et al.(2017) examined the relevance of information and communication technology training workshops for teachers. Lim, Manohar, Aziz, and Zakaria (2016) evaluated an environmental education program for secondary school students in Malaysia, including inquiry into the extent to which the program was contextually relevant and meaningful for participants. ...