Philippine Science High School - Ilocos Region Campus Web Portal

International Journal of Reviews in Computing
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PHILIPPINE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL ILOCOS REGION

CAMPUS WEB PORTAL
PABLO M. VILORIA, JR.
Special Science Teacher III, Philippine Science High School
E-mail: pmviloria@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This study developed a web portal for the Philippine Science High School Ilocos Region Campus (PSHSIRC). It also determined the profile of the PSHS-IRC; level of awareness and need for inclusion in the
development; level of accessibility and adequacy of facilities and sources for Internet access ;) development
of the school web portal prototype, its degree of usability; and the development of web portal for PSHSIRC. This study is a descriptive-developmental research which made use of questionnaire and face to face
interview in gathering data in Phase I (Descriptive). Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) was used
to tackle Phase 2 of the study (Development of the Web Portal). It was concluded that the school, users,
stakeholders background, and technical requirements are essential data to be considered to address
constraints and weaknesses in the development. Awareness and need for school information of the target
user plays an important aspect in the development and inclusion of web portal content. Accessibility and
adequacy on internet sources and facilities contributes to the portal access. Identifying requirements guide
the developer designed a prototype web portal that is suitable to users and stakeholders. PSHS-IRC Web
Portal is ready for use with the URL www.irc.pshs.edu.ph.
Keywords: Web Portal, Profile Determination, PSHS-IRC, Descriptive-Developmental Research
1.
INTRODUCTION
quality academics for deserving students. Students

from the entire region and other regions enrolled in
this campus once they passed the two-shot
examination for the admission and complied with
other requirements. Admitted students are required
to live on campus; and since they come from all
over the regions, they are distantly located from
their families, other alumni and other target
stakeholders.
Dissemination of information to parents,
students, alumni, and other schools outside Region
1 incurs additional costs, since printing and
photocopying of letters, memos, reminders,
programs, and other related communications is not
only cumbersome but tedious and expensive to send
out. Also, communication of school activities to the
Department of Education (DepED) primary and
secondary level is very difficult to reach them,
because our school activities and information is not
only for the municipality of San Ildefonso where the
school is located but also to other divisions. Thus,
the school really needs this proposed school web
portal for faster and easier access of any documents
/ information posted on it.
The school also needs to adhere to the
computerization act known as Electronic Commerce
Act of 2000, which states that:
The Philippine Science High School System

(PSHSS) is under the Department of Science and
Technology (DOST), wherein it focuses on the
development and nurturing of deserving students in
the fields of Science, Mathematics and Technology
at the secondary level from different regions of the
nation. This was established under Republic Act no.
8496 known as the "Philippine Science High School
(PSHS) System Act of 1997, instituting science
and technology scholarships nationwide in
consonance to Republic Act no. 7687, also known
as the Science and Technology Scholarship Act of
1994.
To give equal chances to all incoming freshmen
scholars nationwide, and to widen the scope of
governance of PSHSS, another act was enacted
during the Eleventh Congress' Third Regular
meeting, which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No.
2113 and House Bill Nos. 8134 and 11651, later on
passed as Republic Act No. 9036 - An Act
strengthening the governance and defining the
scope of the Philippine Science High School
System, amending for the purpose Republic Act No.
8496.
From the year of existence of the Philippine
Science High School Ilocos Region Campus
(PSHS-IRC) in 2003, it has been known in Region
1 for providing the latest and updated delivery of
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All organizations must be

updated with those kinds of
technology. It is either in the way of
enhancing their process or hooked up
in the development of system to
minimize the manual processing of
papers or transactions with the
people for quality service.
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INPUT
1.
Profile
2. Extent of
awareness and
need
for
inclusion in the
development of
PSHS-IRC web
portal
3. Level of
Adequacy and
Accessibility of
Facilities/Sourc
es for Internet
Access
Therefore, the researcher believes that the

present study is a great response to the challenge of
technology. This will serve as another medium to
improve the school's processes in disseminating
information to stakeholders either inside or outside
entities
The development of the PSHS Ilocos Region
Campus Web Portal follows the input process
output model shown in Figure 1.
The input consist of the profile of PSHS-IRC
along enrolment, ratio, internet connectivity; faculty
and students in terms of computer literacy,
computer skills, experience in internet access,
special trainings attended, and computer ownership;
the campus portal technical requirements that
includes functional, non-functional, regulatory and
external interface requirements; the extent of
awareness and need for the inclusion in the
development of PSHS-IRC web portal; and the
level of adequacy and accessibility of
facilities/sources for internet access.
The process requires an analysis of profile,
the extent of awareness and need for inclusion in
the development of PSHS-IRC web portal and the
adequacy & accessibility of facilities and technical
requirement analysis using documentary and
interview. It also includes the development of web
portal using the Software Development Life Cycle
such as system analysis, system design, system
development and documentation of the web portal
prototype and the validation in terms of usability
along
attractiveness,
control,
efficiency,
helpfulness,
learnability,
interactivity,
and
acceptability in order to develop the prototype,
which was subjected to usability testing / validation,
to come up with the PSHS Ilocos Region Campus
Web Portal.
4.
Campus
Portal
Technical
PROCESS
Analysis
of
profile, extent
of awareness
and need for
inclusion in the
development of
PSHS-IRC web
portal
and
adequacy
&
accessibility of
facilities
OUTPUT
WEB
PORTAL OF
PSHS-IRC
Technical
Requirement
Analysis using
3. Development
of Web Portal
4. Validation in
terms
of
Usability
F E E D B A C K
Figure 1. Theoretical Framework of the Study

2.
LITERATURE
PROFILE OF PSHS-IRC
Enrollment in the public secondary schools has
rapidly grown over the past decades. In line with
this concern, various schools with different and
specialized curriculum along sciences and
mathematics were established. More and more
enrollees are embarking into schools with special
science curriculum such as the Rizal National
Science High School. This could be due to the fact
that the school implements a special curriculum that
will cater to the technological and socio-economical
demands of the community and will establish a
linkage with local industries and business to provide
additional technical knowledge and actual work
experience for students1.
Student-Teacher ratio refers to the number
of teachers in a school or university in proportion to
the number of students who attend the institution.
For example, a student teacher ratio of 10:1
indicates that there are 10 students for every one
teacher. The term can also be reversed to create a
teacher-student ratio. In the previous example, the
teacher-student ratio would be 1:10.
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information available to the users. Educating people

to use information technologies is becoming an
important educational objective for the teaching and
research community. Universities should take a lead
role in spreading knowledge of digital information
resources.
FACULTY AND STUDENTS PROFILE

The study of Erdem2 entitled Self-Efficacy
Levels of Teachers and Computer Literacy,
stressed out that the teachers information and
computer-self-efficacy beliefs would provide us
with clues about whether they find activities
necessitating information literacy important for
their personal and professional lives and whether
they are able to design environments conducive to
the acquisition of these skills by students. The study
was carried out among 68 teachers chosen randomly
from three public schools and two private primary
schools. The results reveal that most teachers selfefficacy for information literacy and computer
literacy are at high. The meaningful differences
exist between teachers with different computer
literacy self-efficacy level with regard to their
information literacy self-efficacy levels and the
meaningful differences are between the first and
third and the second and third stages. They believe
that students gained skills of reaching information,
literature review, referencing.
A survey conducted by Maharana3 on
Digital Information Literacy of Faculty at
Sambalpur University pointed out that computers
have become a necessary part of this digital society,
and skills for computer use are a common
prerequisite on many job applications. The
researcher found out the 98.57% of faculty
members who responded to the survey expressed
their need for electronic information in addition to
traditional print sources; 82.86% respondents
indicated that they use e-journals. However, earticles, e-thesis and dissertations and e-databases
are used by more than 50% of the faculty. Other
forms of e-information such as e-book, subject
gateways, e-archives are less popular among the
teaching community; majority of faculty use einformation in order to update their knowledge in
their respective subject area. More than 60% use eresources for the purpose of research support,
preparation of course materials, and preparation of
scholarly articles for publication. Further,
concluded that there is an educational imbalance
between the rapidly developing technologies and
Further, Grady5 of JOG Systems Engineering

Inc., cites that Systems Requirement Analysis gives
the professional systems engineer the tools to set up
a proper and effective analysis of the resources,
schedules and parts that will be needed in order to
successfully undertake and complete any large,
complex project.
EXTENT OF AWARENESS AND NEED
PORTAL REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS

In order to attain success and be able to achieve
those advantages presented of having a web portal,
any organization should undergo a thorough
analysis of the specific requirements. Requirements
analysis is the process of identifying the important
features to be included in the development of web
portal. According to NYS Project Management
Guidebook4:
The primary goal of this
phase is to create a detailed Functional
Specification defining the full set of
system capabilities to be implemented, 1
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Rizal_National_S
cience_High_School, May 2010.along
with accompanying data and process
models illustrating the information to be
managed and the processes to be
supported by the new system. The
Functional Specification will evolve
throughout this phase of the Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as
detailed business requirements are
captured, and as supporting process and
data models are created, ensuring that
the eventual solution provides the
Customers with the functionality they
need to meet their stated business
objectives
Erdem Mukaddes., 2007. Self-Efficacy Levels of

Teachers
and
Computer
Literacy
http://www.idosi.org/wasj/wasj2%284%29/20.pdf,
accessed May 20, 2010
http://www.cio.ny.gov/pmmp/guidebook2/SystemReq.t
xt, accessed May 20, 2010.
Maharana, Bulu. 2007. A Survey of Digital

Information Literacy of Faculty at Sambalpur
University.
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/maharana.p
df, accessed May 20, 2010.
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According to D'Arcy in his article in

Information System Research entitled User
Awareness of Security Countermeasures and Its
Impact on Information Systems Misuse: A
Deterrence Approach, intentional insider misuse of
information systems resources represents a
significant threat to organizations. For example,
industry statistics suggest that between 50%75%
of security incidents originate from within an
organization. Because of the large number of
misuse incidents, it has become important to
understand how to reduce such behavior.
Olzak7 discussed that user awareness is an
essential part of information security. The existence
of policies, standards, and guidelines must be
known to the employees that handle your data and
manage your infrastructure. User awareness is part
of the administrative foundation of a secure
information processing environment. It is through
an effective awareness program that a desire to meet
policy objectives becomes part of your
organization's culture.
reason for the lag in the utilization of information

technology in developing countries is the absence of
basic data. This article explores the possible causes
of this lack of basic data by examining the
normative factors, cultural and exotic, embedded in
the current practices of collecting, storing, and
accessing data in Ghana, a developing country.
PROTOTYPE WEB PORTAL
Before committing to a full-scale software
implementation, software prototyping is a cost
effective way in which to explore the viability of
ideas by identifying potential "black holes", red
flagging issues requiring further research, and
providing something real which can be
demonstrated to potential customers and/or
investors9.
The principal use of prototype is to help
customers and developers understand the
requirements for the system10. Understanding
requirements of the system is a very important
matter to be considered in the development, because
it would be a path or good to be used the creation of
prototype as well.
LEVEL
OF
ADEQUACY
AND
ACCESSIBILITY OF FACULTIES AND
SOURCES OF INTERNET ACCESS
According to the study of Nkansah and
Amankwaa8 entitled Adequacy, Accessibility, and
Goodness of Data, the impact of information
technology in the industrialized world is dramatic
and the trend is continuing at an exponential rate
with global implications. In contrast, the impact of
information technology in developing countries is
marginal, with only a few countries daring to travel
on the information superhighway. One fundamental
6
John D'Arcy, Anat Hovav, and Dennis Galletta. 2009.

User Awareness of Security Countermeasures and Its
Impact on Information Systems Misuse: A Deterrence
Approach. INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 79-98
http://isr.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/
79 accessed April 29, 2010.
Olzak, Tom. 2009. Security Basics - User Awareness.

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smbsecurity/articles/ 2261.aspx, accessed April 29, 2010.
Paul T. Nkansah and A. AmanKwaa. 2001. Adequacy,

Accessibility, and Goodness of Data., Department of
Psychology, Sociology and Social Work. Albany State
University, Albany, GA, Journal of African Business,
Volume 2, Issue 1 January 2001 , pages 95 107.,
USA
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m/smpp/content~content=a903817818&db=all,
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WEB PORTAL
You can now join more mailing lists than you
will ever have time to read. There is an abundance
of information on every topic and subject and you
can spend hours on forums, chats or reading blogs.
The internet has allowed networking and making
new business relationships. Traditional means of
advertising have been challenged by internet
advertising which is one of the fastest growing
industries11.
The above-cited literature plays an important
role in constructing the proposed website of the
school. It guides the researcher in the analysis of the
requirements in four dimensions of requirements.
Likewise, the development of the prototype is vital
from the requirements identified. Since the hardest
9
Morey,
Ed.
1998.
Software
Protoyping
http://www.edmorey.com/services/software-prototyping/
accessed September 10, 2009.
10
Sommerville, Ian. 2000. Software engineering 6th
edition
http://www.google.com.ph/#hl=tl&q=software+protoyp
ing&meta=&fp=c829049725e197d2,
accessed
September 17, 2009.
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Future.
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part of study is on the testing of the usability, the

researcher made use of the pattern adopted by
Landauer and Nielsen12 to avoid overlapping of
ideas and minimize cost as well.
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c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
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j.
k.
l.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The study aimed to develop a Web Portal for

Philippine Science High School Ilocos Region
Campus. Specifically, it sought answers to the
following problems:
1. What is the profile of the following:
a. PSHS-IRC
- Enrolment
- Ratio
Teacher-Student
Teacher-Computer
Student Computer
- Internet Connectivity
ISP
Bandwidth
Nature of Connectivity
b. Faculty
- Computer literacy
- Computer skills
- Experience in Internet Access
- Special Trainings Attended
- Computer ownership
c. Students
- Computer literacy
- Computer skills
- Experience in Internet access
- Special trainings attended
- Computer ownership
2. What are the Campus Web Portal technical
requirements along the following:
a. Functional Requirements;
b. Non-Functional Requirement;
c. Regulatory Requirement; and
d. External Interface Requirement?
3. What is the level of awareness and need
for the inclusion in the development
PSHS-IRC Web Portal
along the
following;
a. Mission, Goals and Objectives
(MGO);
b. Administration;
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4.
5.
6.
7.
4.
Curriculum and Instruction;

Faculty;
Students;
Research;
Extension;
Library Services;
Laboratory;
Physical Facilities;
Alumni;
Opportunities (Career, Bid and
other Announcements);
What is the level of adequacy and
accessibility of facilities and sources for
Internet access?
What prototype school web portal can be
developed?
What is the degree of usability of the
prototype web portal in terms of the
following dimensions:
a. Attractiveness;
b. Control;
c. Efficiency;
d. Helpfulness;
e. Learnability;
f. Interactivity; and
g. Acceptability
What web portal can be developed for the
Philippine Science High School Ilocos
Region Campus?
METHODS AND PROCEDURE
Descriptive developmental research design

was used in the study. Descriptive research design
is a scientific method which involves observing and
describing the behavior of a subject13.
Developmental research was utilized because
this study further focused on the development of a
prototype web portal based from the gathered
information from the respondents. The final output
was a usable/acceptable web portal for Philippine
Science High School Ilocos Region Campus.
According to Richey14, developmental research
involves situations in which the product-
Nielsen, Jakob, and Landauer, Thomas K. 2009.

Thematical model of the finding of usability
problems," Proceedings of ACM INTERCHI'93
Conference (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-29 April
1993),
pp.
206-213.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html,
accessed September 2, 2009
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13
Shuttleworth Martyn. 2008. Descriptive Research

Design
http://www.experimentresources.com/descriptive-research-design.html,
14
Richey, Rita C. 2009. Developmental Research

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlet
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development process is analyzed and described, and

the final product is evaluated, focuses more on the
impact of the product on the learner or the
organization, and it is oriented toward a general
analysis of design development or evaluation
processes as a whole or as components.
Respondents of the study were students who
are currently enrolled from first year to fourth year
school year 2009-2010 (207) and faculty members
(21) who are currently teaching at PSHS-IRC.
There are 228 respondents from the two groups.
Total enumeration was done for the respondents to
get the profile, level of awareness and need, extent
of adequacy and accessibility of internet sources.
For usability testing, the idea of Landauer and
Nielsen15 to have 3 to 5 validators in every group
was adopted. According to him, there is no need to
include as many members of each group as you
would in a single test of a single group of users. The
overlap between observations will ensure a better
outcome from testing a smaller number of people in
each group. These selected validators were taken
from the respondents of the study.
Thus, the process of selecting members of the
validators in each group was done in the analysis of
the respondents profile. Purposive sampling was
employed in a manner that they should have
knowledge in browsing and surfing the net so that
they can evaluate and relate to the questionnaires
administered to them. Additional five (5) experts in
the field served also as validators to test the
usability of the web portal. To test and validate the
web portal prototype, three (3) validators from each
group of students, alumni, and faculty,
administrators and five (5) expert evaluators.
For the instrumentation, the study has two (2)
phases, descriptive and developmental phases.
Phase 1 mainly used the questionnaire to gather
data such as profile, awareness and need, adequacy
and accessibility of facilities/sources for Internet
access, and usability testing.
In the portal technical requirements analysis of
the proposed web portal, the researcher used a
structured form of questionnaire to gather and
define the functional, non-functional, regulatory,
and external interface requirements of the study
from the different groups based from the study of
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Ancheta but revisions were made to fit the current

study.
Phase 2 was on the developmental phase of the
research that focused on the development of the
school web portal. Firstly, it developed the school
portal based on the result of the requirement
analysis following the steps on Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Joomla as content management system for the
web portal and it can be used to easily manage
every aspect of your web portal, from adding
content and images to updating a product catalogue,
processing credit card payments or taking online
reservations17.
Apache for an active system server and
Apache's modular architecture allows you to build a
server that is "made to measure"18.
MySQL for the queries and support primary
keys, along with key indices which allow you to
speed up queries and constrain input19.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for the uniformity
of design in every pages of the web portal and can
define different ways of content display based on
the media20.
Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) for the
design of the forms and display Web pages with a
wide range of colors, shapes, and objects21.
Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) for the codings
and it was used for creating dynamic webpages that
Nielsen, Jakob, and Landauer, Thomas K. 2009.

Thematical model of the finding of usability
problems," Proceedings of ACM INTERCHI'93
Conference (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-29 April
1993),
pp.
206-213.
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16
Ancheta, A. (2006). Web Portal of the DMMMSU

Graduate College for Electronic Theses and
Dissertations. Dissertation. DMMMSU-GC, San
Fernando City, March 2006
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Source
CMS.
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Kamthan, P. 2009. Apache at your Web Service.

http://www.irt.org/articles/js177/index.htm#advantages,
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Hobach, A. 2009. Advantages and Disadvantages to

Using
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interact with the user offering customized

information22.
From the identified requirements and
softwares, the researcher developed a prototype and
further subjected it to evaluation. Evaluation was
part of the process in order to validate the usability
of the proposed web portal. A questionnaire was
given to the validators/testers in order to test the
usability of the web portal in different dimensions.
Their feedback were documented and served as
basis for the development of the functional portal of
the school.
Secondly, to describe the level of the usability
of the proposed web portal of Philippine Science
High School Ilocos Region Campus was
described in terms of its attractiveness or the
degree to which users like the site, whether they
find the site pleasant to use; control or degree to
which users feel in charge, whether the site allows
them to navigate through it with ease, and whether
the site communicates with them about what it is
doing; efficiency or degree to which users feel that
the site has the information they are looking for,
that it works at a reasonable speed and is adapted to
their browser; helpfulness or degree to which users
feel that the site enables them to solve their
problems with finding information and navigating;
learnability or degree to which users feel they can
get to use the site if they come into it for the first
time and the degree to which they feel they can
learn to use other facilities or access other
information once they have started using it23;
interactivity is the way the web portal responds to
the actions of the end-user; and acceptability is the
satisfactoriness of users in browsing the web portal.
In testing the usability of the portal, the
developed questionnaire was patterned from three
tools namely; (1) Heuristic Evaluation Approach of
Xerox Corporation, (2) the 25-point Website
Usability
Checklist,
Software
Usability
Measurement Inventory, and (3) Website Analysis
and Measurement Inventory.
A five point scale was used having descriptive
equivalents ranging from strongly agree to strongly
disagree for the usability testing and very high
22
Stewart, Celeste. 2006. The Advantages of PHP

http://www.designersplayground.com/articles/118/1/Th
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Query
Techniques http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/rng/teaching
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awareness/need to poor awareness/need for the

level of awareness and need of the respondents
which was adapted from the study of Ancheta24.
To establish validity, the questionnaire was
presented to the researchers adviser for
corrections/suggestions and recommendations.
Then, it was further polished/improved by the Oral
Examination Committee (OrEC) and finally their
approval was solicited.
To obtain the reliability, the questionnaire on
awareness and need for inclusion, and adequacy
and accessibility of facilities and sources of internet
access was pilot-tested to 30 respondents who were
not included in the study. It was piloted in Belen
National High School, San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur
and computed using Cronbach Alpha. It gave the
result of 0.88 denoting a high reliability. Thus, the
questionnaire used was reliable.
The validation of the web portal was done
through usability testing adopted from SUMI and
WAMMI. This instrument was also adopted by
Ancheta25 in his dissertation entitled Web Portal of
the DMMMSU Graduate College for Electronic
Theses and Dissertations. The instrument was no
longer piloted for reliability since this is a standard
test as Griffiths26 explanation on validity:
Confidence in the validity of a
questionnaire can be developed by
demonstrating its consistency with other
measures for the quality that it is intended
to measure, e.g., other questionnaires or
standards checklists
To determine the profile, a frequency count
was utilized. The extent of awareness and need for
the inclusion of items like mission, goals,
objectives,
administration,
curriculum
and
instruction in the development of the web portal,
frequency counts was used. The level of adequacy
and accessibility, frequency count was also used.
The portal technical requirements were presented in
descriptive format.
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24

Dissertations. Dissertation. DMMMSU-GC, San
Fernando City, March 2006
25

Dissertations.
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Griffiths, Richard 2009. Usability Evaluation by

Query Techniques

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The level of validity in terms of usability along

attractiveness, control, efficiency, helpfulness,
learnability, interactivity and acceptability was
computed using weighted means.
5.
PSHS-IRC should sustain or apply for a higher

bandwidth to support an excellent internet
connection.
CAMPUS
PORTAL
REQUIREMENTS
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
TECHNICAL
The development of the PSHS-IRC prototype

requires the following functional requirements like
browsing scheme, breadcrumbs, site map, search
tools, etc; non-functional requirements such as
performance, reliability, security, efficiency, speed,
and hardware requirement; regulatory requirements
such as restrictions and file format; and external
interface requirements such as text visibility, link
consistency, color combination and graphics layout.
Based from the requirements identified the school
prototype was developed as presented in the virtual
structure of the portal below:
PROFILE PSHS-IRC
The profile of PSHS-IRC includes enrollment,
ratio of student to faculty, student to computer, and
faculty to computer; and internet connectivity.
The enrolment of PSHS-IRC for the school
year 2009-2010 is shown in the figure below. It can
be noted that there are 65 students from the first
year, 49 for the second and third year, and 44 for
the fourth year with a total of 207 students.
The PSHS-IRC has twenty-one faculty
members to implement the curriculum of the PSHS
System, thus, the ratio of teacher to student is 1:10.
Computer ratio is 1:1, since the school has two (2)
computer laboratories that are equipped with 56
computers. Faculty to computer ratio is 2:1. It is
also worth noting that every unit of the school has
its own computer for instructional purposes. These
confirmed the idea of Kumar (2010) that ratios are
indicative of possible changes of the school. The
findings implied that PSHS-IRC is equipped with
computers to cater the need of the students in their
laboratory works and the faculty in the preparation
of their reports. Further, faculty to student ratio is
low which means that the number of students to be
supervised by a teacher is manageable.
PSHS-IRC is using the wireless connectivity
through
Smart
Broadband
(SMARTBRO)
Communication of SMART Network having a
corporate account supplying 1024 kbps as the
bandwidth. The findings reflected the use of
wireless technology in connecting to internet
service with an excellent speed to sustain the
download and upload activities of the administrator,
faculty, staff, and students of PSHS-IRC
community. According to Craig27 the idea of
internet connection along speed depends on the
bandwidth which refers to how much data can be
downloaded from the service provider. Further, he
pointed out that the good internet connection is in
ADSL service. Thus, its highly suggested that
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Figure 2: Virtual Structure of the Web Portal

LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND NEED FOR
THE INCLUSION IN THE DEVELOPMENT
OF PSHS-IRC WEB PORTAL
The level of awareness and the level of need in
the inclusion of some items like MGO, faculty,
students, research, etc., in the development of the
portal are presented in table below.
The level of need in the inclusion of the
indicators in the development of the school portal
got a weighted mean of 3.91 or highly needed. It
implies that indicators presented in table are
important menu parts of the school portal. The
twelve indicators got a unanimous descriptive
equivalent of highly needed (HN).
Craig, Borysowich (1998). Observations from a Tech

Architect: Enterprise Implementation Issues &
Solutions.
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprisesolutions/defining-external-interface-requirements6352, accessed September 12, 2009.
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Table 1. Level of Awareness and Need for the

Inclusion in the Development of PSHS-IRC Web
Portal
Awareness
Need
Indicators
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School
3.71
HA
3.43
HA
Online provider
3.69
HA
3.40
HA
Library
3.66
HA
3.27
MA
Community center
3.74
HA
3.06
MA
On travel.
3.56
HA
3.06
MA
Mean
DE
Mean
DE
3.51
HA
3.95
HN
Computer Laboratory
3.96
HA
3.65
HA
3.23
MA
3.74
HN
Internet Kiosk/Caf
3.97
HA
3.75
HA
3.53
HA
3.93
HN
Materials, Tools and

Video Cam, head
3.84
HA
3.58
HA
Faculty
3.62
HA
3.92
HN
Printer, Router,
4.03
HA
3.61
HA
Student
3.61
HA
3.91
HN
4.04
HA
3.67
HA
Research
3.35
MA
4.07
HN
Extension
3.08
MA
3.80
HN
3.81
HA
3.49
HA
Library Services
3.17
MA
3.85
HN
Mission,
Goals
Objectives
and
Administration
Curriculum
Instruction
and
Laboratories
3.29
HA
4.03
HN
Physical
Plant/Infrastructure
3.21
HA
3.93
HN
Alumni
3.04
MA
3.79
HN
Opportunities
(Career
and Bid Announcements)
3.08
MA
4.02
HN
GRAND MEAN
3.31
MA
3.91
HN
cellphone
3G/4G)
Mean
Legend : HA
MA
Findings in the table coincide with the idea that

the awareness of the respondents falls under the first
level also known as the basic consciousness28. The
respondents were aware on the indicators presented
in the table but they dont bother to question or
wonder. Moreover, agreed to include all the
indicators in the development of the school web
portal.
DEGREE OF USABILITY OF THE WEB

PORTAL PROTOTYPE
As a part of the implementation process, testing
of the usability was done in order to determine the
AND
AND
29
National Education Association. May 2008. Access,

Adequacy, and Equity in Education Technology
Results of a Survey of Americas Teachers and Support
Professionals on Technology in Public Schools and
Classrooms.
http://www.healthlink.com/network_adequacy_standar
ds.asp, accessed April 29, 2010.
30
Paul T. Nkansah and A. AmanKwaa. 2001.

Adequacy, Accessibility, and Goodness of Data.,
Department of Psychology, Sociology and Social
Work. Albany State University, Albany, GA, Journal
of African Business, Volume 2, Issue 1 January 2001 ,
pages
95
107.,
USA
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m/smpp/content~content=a903817818&db=all,
accessed April 29, 2010.
The level of adequacy and accessibility of

facilities and sources for internet access is below.
Facilities/Sources of
Internet Access
Accessibility
Mea
n
DE
3.96
3.62
Adequacy
Mea
n
DE
HA
3.89
HA
HA
3.49
HA
On-line Settings
Home
Neighborhood
28
=Highly Adequate /Accessible

=Moderately
Accessible/Adequate
Findings on level of adequacy of facilities and

sources for internet access got a weighted mean of
3.49 or highly adequate descriptive rating. It means
that there are adequate or plenty of facilities and
sources and venues by which users can have access
to the internet.
This result coincides with the goal of
HealthLink29 to set standards on availability and
accessibility of website to the intended users. Also,
it confirms the suggestions of Nkansah and
Amankwaa30 in their study that to have a good
access of data, the portal should solve the problems
associated with the current practices of recording,
storing, and accessing data.
Legend : HA / HN=High Awareness / Highly Needed

MA / MN=Moderate Awareness / Moderately
Needed
LEVEL
OF
ADEQUACY
ACCESSIBILITY OF FACILITIES
SOURCES FOR INTERNET ACCESS
(iphone,
www.everything.com
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degree of usability that the prototype web portal

Indicators
Mean
DER
1.
Attractiveness
4.24
Strongly Agree
2.
Control
4.23
Strongly Agree
3.
Efficiency
4.37
Strongly Agree
4.
Helpfulness
3.83
Slightly Agree
5.
Learnability
3.93
Slightly Agree
6.
Interactivity
4.72
Strongly Agree
7.
Acceptability
4.43
Strongly Agree
4.25
Strongly Agree
Grand Mean
Nielse that learnability indicator in the degree of

usability of Web Portal becomes the most important
element in terms of usability.
6.
WEB
PORTAL
FOR
PHILIPPINE
SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL - ILOCOS
REGION CAMPUS
With the high/ strongly agree level of usability

testing as reflected in the mean rating of 4.25 and
after integrating all the gathered requirements,
implementing the virtual structure and process flow,
and designing the menus as an engine in navigation
scheme, a usable/functional web portal was
developed as shown below and accessible at
http://www.irc.pshs.edu.ph.
has. This was administered to 21 respondents

coming from different groups. There were three
validators from the group of scholars, alumni,
parents, outsiders, and administrators. There were
nine (9) IT experts who validated the web portal in
order that the technical aspect of the web portal may
be tested properly.
The researcher made use of the 5 point Likert
scale to interpret the degree of usability on the
following
aspects:
attractiveness,
control,
efficiency, helpfulness, learnability, interactivity,
and acceptability. The results are shown below:
There was a strong agreement from the
validators having a grand mean of 4.25. This means
that the developed school web portal is very usable.
Taken individually, interactivity got the highest
mean of 4.72 which is strongly agree; followed by
acceptability (4.43), efficiency (4.37), attractiveness
(4.24), and control (4.23). All those indicators were
described as strongly agree.
The strong agreement on the degree of usability
of the developed school portal means that it is
functional and usable as an alternative medium of
communication of the schools to the target users
and browsers. Further, it is less-aesthetic portal for
serious/regular usage as compared between Gmail
and Yahoo mail and users can easily move from one
page to the other page using the breadcrumbs, it is
efficient and has a good design.
Moreveor, the developed portal allows users to
navigate with ease and communicate about what it
is doing31. This is in consonance to the idea of
Main menu includes the Home, PSHS IRC

History, Mission and Vision, PSHS Hymn,
Organizational Structure, Faculty and Student,
Curriculum and Instruction, Research, Extension
Program, Library, Laboratory, Physical Facilities,
and New Announcements.
Top Menu includes the Achievements,
Downloads, Opportunities, Contacts and Sitemap.
Additional features for interactivity include the
PHISCI Connectivity for blogging of the registered
Germany: VDM
3639015169).
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a contingent heuristic approach and eye gaze tracking
for the usability evaluation of Web sites. Saarbrcken,
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Dr.
Mller.
(ISBN:
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Usability.
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users, PTA Updates, Photo Gallery, Alumni Corner,

and the Log-in Form.
4.
7.
CONCLUSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
AND
Based on the findings by the researcher, the

following conclusions were drawn:
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
The
school,
users,
stakeholders
background, and technical requirements
are essential data to be considered in the
development of the proposed school web
portal.
Campus technical requirements are
essential to consider in the analysis and
development of the school web portal.
Awareness and need for school
data/information of the target user plays an
important aspect in the development and
inclusion of web portal content for a better
access and information sharing of the
school and its stakeholders.
Adequacy and accessibility on internet
sources and facilities contribute to the
portal access and used.
Identifying requirements guide, the
developer-designed a prototype web portal
that is suitable to users and stakeholders.
The developed prototype is ready for use
of the faculty and staff, students and
stakeholders of PSHS-IRC.
Existence of PSHS-IRC web portal in the
cyberspace can be accessed with an IP
Address or domain name of www.pshsirc.edu.ph.
6.
7.
8.
the successful development of a web

portal.
Internet sources and facilities such as
internet provider, computers/laptops, and
other hardware internet devices must be
taken
into
consideration
in
the
development of the web portal for a better
and wider access to information of the
school.
Prototyping
scheme
is
highly
recommended to implement the trial and
error development. This may be done by a
partial development of the web portal then
test/validate for further revisions until such
feature works properly and necessitates the
support of the administration.
Usability testing should be part of the
entire development to avoid bugs and to
facilitate an efficient and effective access
by users. This should be supported again
by the researcher, developer, and
administrators.
The developed web portal for the
Philippine Science High School Ilocos
Region Campus is recommended for use
and
must
be
utilized
as
an
alternative/additional
communication
system to the target user to minimize
expenses cost in communication.
It is highly recommended for future
researchers to conduct further studies
related to this present study and in line
with web portal development which should
also include the maintenance stage as part
of the entire cycle.
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