DEVELOPMENT AND USEFULNESS OF MOBILE APPLICATION FOR GATHERING HEALTH DECLARATION DATA OF PARENTS DURING DISTRIBUTION AND RETRIEVAL OF MODULES IN TIME OF PANDEMIC AT BOTOLAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, PHILIPPINES

Author Name: Bernard T. Inocencio

Volume/Issue: 02/06

Country: Philippines

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/12.2021-57514778/UIJIR

Affiliation:

Botolan National High School, Department of Education, Philippines

ABSTRACT

This time of pandemic requires no contact among persons to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This situation also brought us to digital solutions in education and the implementation and delivery of quality education. The goal of this research is to develop and test the usefulness of a mobile application that will be used to gather information of parents in their health declar ation form during the retrieval and distribution of modules at Botolan National High School. The study employed descriptive qualitative research methodology to gather data and the use of questionnaires to assess the usefulness of the mobile application developed. Based on the result of document analysis the basic information needed to parents as they enter the school premises are date and time, name, age, gender, complete home address, and contact number. The developed application was used to gather information with the aid of QR-code distribution and store the data via a google sheet. The mobile application was evaluated and generally the respondents all strongly agreed on the usefulness of the mobile application. It was concluded that the developed mobile application is useful and may be used to gather data from QR-code and store it to google sheet that may be monitored in real-time.

Key words: usefulness, health decleration data, retrival, pandemic, digital solutions.