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ENHANCING MANAGEMENT MEASURES ON STUDENTS'SELF- STUDY
ACTIVITIES AT HUNG VUONG UNIVERSITY, PHU THO, VIET NAM
A Dissertation
Presented to
The Faculty
Graduate School
Southern Luzon State University
Lucban, Quezon In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
in Educational Management
by
DO KHAC THANH ( TOM)
March 2013
APPROVAL SHEET

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Republic of the Philippines
Southern Luzon State University
Lucban, Quezon

Member DR. BELLA R. MUELLO
Member

DR. CECILIAN N. GASCON
Chairman

DR. TERESITA V. DELA CRUZ
Adviser
DR. TERESITA V. DELA CRUZ
Dean, Graduate School

Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Development Education

DR. WALBERTO A. MACARAAN
Vice President for Academic Affairs
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Date
ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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DO KHAC THANH
DEdM Cadidate

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TITLE PAGE ……… i
APPROVAL SHEET ………. ii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT iii
DEED OF DECLARATION iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
LIST OF TABLES viii
LIST OF TABLES viii
LIST OF FIGURES x
LIST OF APPENDICES xi
AB STRACT xiii
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1

Table 1 (A) Frequency, Percentage and Distribution of the respondent 27
Table 1 (B) Frequency, Percentage and Distribution of the respondent 28
Table 1.1 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the Status of Students‟ Self-study
Activities as to its Awareness on Self-study 33
Table 1.2 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the status of students' self- study
activities as to its study skills 34
Table 1.3 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the status of students' self- study
activities as to students' habits during self- study 35
Table 1.4 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the status of students' self- study
activities as to Services for self-study support 36
Table 1.5 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the status of students' self- study
activities as to Teacher initiative 37
Table 1.6 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the status of students' self- study
activities as to self- study location 38
Table 1.7 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution on the status of students' self- study
activities as to administration 39
Table 2.1 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of the factors affect the activities of
students' self-study as to External factors 40
Table 2.2 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of the factors affect the activities of
students' self-study as to internal factors 41
Table 3 43
Table 4.1 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of the management measures of self-
study as to planning the management on self- study 44

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Table 4.2 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of the management measures of self-
study as to organizing the orientation for self- study activities. 46
Table 4.3 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of the management measures of self-
study as to organizing managemennt activities for self- learning skills enhancement 47
Table 4.4 Frequency and Weighted Mean Distribution of the management measures of self-


1. Appendix A Communication Letters 81
2. Appendix B Questionnaires 83
3. Appendix C: Statistics, Descriptives 90
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Title:
ENHANCING MANAGEMENT MEASURES ON
STUDENTS' SELF-STUDY ACTIVITIES AT HUNG
VUONG UNIVERSITY
Researcher:
DO KHAC THANH ( TOM)
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management
Nam/ Address of
the Institution

activites of students at Hung Vuong University, ropose measures of management on self-
study activities, the survey on the necessity and feasibility of the measures.
There were 206 teachers and 328 students used as respondents in this study. Weighted
mean, chi-square and multiple regressions were used in the study to analyze the data. 1
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
Entering the twenty-first century, human beings faced with drastic changes of modern
civilization due to the achievements of science and technology, with breakthroughs in all
areas of social life. Education is considered a key factor for the development of the society as
required by that trend. With the explosion of information technology, the amount of human
knowledge is increasing day by day, hour by hour. Time for learning in the school is limited,
so that need to be equipped with self-study method to acquire the knowledge is the inevitable
trend. By means of self-learning, learners can study regularly, practice lifelong learning,
learning anywhere and anytime.
To improve the quality of human resources for the industrialization and modernization
of the country, the Party and the State consider "Education is a top national policy", and
"Investment for education is an investment for development ". Education has been an
important driving force for economic and social development of the country, the quality of
education will determine the quality of human resources. To get quality of education, two
basic elements of the training: teaching and learning must be focused. In the process of
learning, the learners must be directed in line with self-awareness, positive, proactive self-
organizing, and self-control of their own learning activities that makes the educational process
to become self- education process. Thus, the self- study is the way to develop a lifetime of
every human being.
For the level of higher education, pedagogy requirements in Article 40 of the
Vietnamese Law on Education (2005) states: "Methods of college and university education
must pay attiention to the advancement of the self- consiousness in study, of ability of self-

students in 2012 is 12000.
Its goal is to become a university which educates and trains students in multy
disciplines and branches, and serves as a research centre of science and technology, meeting
the need of economic, cultural and social development in Phu Tho province and her
neighbors; aiming at building Hung Vuong University into one meeting the required national
standards of well-qualified staffs and appropriate equipment in 2015
From 2004, it was assigned to disciplinary higher education; the initial difficulties of
the university were teaching and learning in higher education level. Most of the students who
just passed the entrance examination do not have active and positive habits of self-study and
self-learning skills, they learn what they are taught. In addition, factors such as physical
facilities, books and curricula for teaching and learning are still insufficient in training have
affected the quality of the school. According to the roadmap innovation, higher education in
Vietnam, from 2010 Hung Vuong University has transformed from school- based to credit -
based system. With this change, the role of the students is promoted to maximum with the
support of faculty and academic management. From the above problems, the identification of
management measures of students' self-study activities at Hung Vuong University to improve
the quality of training is a matter of urgency.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This study focuses on enhancing management on students' self- study activities at
Hung Vuong university with an end view of developing a management measures of activities,
school year 2012- 2013
Specifically, it sought answer to the following questions:
1. Determine the status of the self- study activities of students in terms of:
1.1. Students' awareness on self- study
1.2. Study skills
1.3 Habits during self- study

made aware of the factors affecting the activities of students' self- study. Since then, each
teacher will take measures to raise awareness and self-study skills for students, making them
more active and proactive in self-study activities. Also this study will help teachers identify
measures to improve the efficiency of self-learning activities for students to contribute to
improving the quality of school education.

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Administrators. It is hoped that the study will help the administrators to see the status
of self-study activities, the management of self-study activities of the school, and provide
them with the management measures for reference in managing self-study activities of
students in the school
Future Researchers. This study could provide references for future proponents who
wish to conduct a study similar to the nature of this ongoing research. Thus, basic management
measures of self- study activities of students could serve as resources for other studies
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
This study is limited only in enhancing the management measures on students' self-
study activities at Hung Vuong University- Phu Tho province-Viet Nam. The respondents
were composed of 206 administrators and 328 students from the different satellite schools
such as: Dept of Natural Sciences, Dept of Mathematics and Technology, Dept of Social
Sciences, Dept of Foreign Languages, Dept of Primary and Pre-school Education, Dept of
Economics and Business Administration, Dept of Agro-Forestry-Aquaculture, Dept of Art &
Music.
The instrument of the study focused only on the management measures on students'
self- study activities composed the following variables such as students' awareness on self-
study, study skills, services for self- study, teaching method and administration.
The time frame of this study covered the period from December 2012 to November 2013
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nuances. Self-study can be understood as a way of study in which people study with self-
awareness, positive, proactive, independent capture knowledge in a certain area of life in
order to achieve goals.
(Cynthia A. Lassonde, Sally Galman,Clare Kosnik ( 2009) Self-study involves a
strong personal reference in that it involves study of the self and study by the self although
there are variations of that theme. Baird (2004) brought attention to the possible
interpretations of self in self-study when he analyzed types of studies and distinguished the
foci of self-study research, i.e., a focus on “the self in teaching”; “the self as teacher”; “the
self as researcher of my teaching”; “the self as researcher of teacher education”; and “the self
as researcher of self-study” (p. 1445). Hamilton and colleagues (1998) define self-study as
“the study of one‟s self, one‟s actions, one‟s ideas, as well as the „not self‟… Self-study also
involves a thoughtful look at texts read, experiences had, people known, and ideas
considered” (p. 236). Hamilton and colleagues conclude “a critical examination of the self‟s
involvement both in aspects of the study and in the phenomenon under study” is central to
self-study.
(Self-Study Research Methodologies for Teacher Educators (SENSE PUBLISHERS
ROTTERDAM/BOSTON/TAIPEI- 2009)

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Self-study is a procedure whereby an education program describes, evaluates, and
subsequently improves the quality of its efforts. Self-assessment involves the identification of
a program's strengths and limitations and the delineation of the steps necessary to correct
those limitations. Self- study requires a commitment to change rather than to maintaining the
status quo.
(Source: http://www.asha.org/academic/accreditation/accredmanual/section4.htm)
Through the self-study procedure, a program conducts a systematic and thorough
examination of all its components in light of its stated mission. Such an evaluation allows a
program to determine the success, it is having in accomplishing its self-established goals and
objectives through careful evaluation of input obtained from individuals and groups directly
and indirectly involved with the program.

To complete the task of learners, students need to pay attention to the following issues:
how to listen to lectures, read textbooks, books, reference materials, and make their own plans
of study.
Thai Duy Tuyen (2004), self- study at university is very important in the process of
education and self-education; it is evident that the self-education of the students in their life
helps students master the knowledge, skills, techniques and future career. In the course of
study each student self-advocacy, capital gradually transforming experience, human
knowledge that has been accumulated in the course of history into his own knowledge capital.

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In the process, students have shown a high level, be aware of their role, combining
harmonious and unified leading role with the role of objects in teaching control.
Ha Thi Duc (2004) In the learning process at the university, each student must
dominate the system of knowledge, skills and master the basis of future career at the
university with potential to rise to adapt demands the immediate and long term due to social
practices and scientific and technological revolution poses. Therefore, when conducting
learning activities in college, the students can not only have normal cognitive capacities but
also need to conduct the study -activities based on the ability of thinking independently,
creative development at a high level.
Nguyen Ky (2002) self -study not only helps students constantly improve the quality
and effectiveness of learning but also help them to prepare for their future. Students will
become scientific and technical staff with the capacity, interest, habits and methods self-
learning regular, self-study, especially in the era of knowledge economy and learning society
today. It will help owners get regularly updated knowledge to solve the urgent need of life in
place, avoid the backward before the increasing development of the society currently.
Dang Vu Hoat, Ha Thi Duc ( 2004) stated self- study activities aim to help the
students overcome difficulties in life, to assert themselves by the virtue of perseverance, hard
work, building the striving for science, for life, soon identified orientation, faith and passion
for scientific research. University study in content diversity, abundance, so that it requires
students to be very proactive in planning a scientific way, in particular with high sense of