Research

• Heritage Homes Integrated School is located in Marilao, Bulacan, Philippines
• Heritage Homes Integrated School usually ranks the students by their average from their overall grades of the last school year, just like the homogeneous grouping
• In school year 2023 to 2024, Heritage Homes Integrated School went down to the heterogeneous type of section ranking
• In the batch 2024 to 2025, the homogeneous section ranking had made its return at Heritage Homes Integrated School
• Homogeneous grouping


  • Students are placed in a section with their academic peers
• Heterogeneous grouping


  • The school forms their sections with a variety of students with random abilities and expertise
• Students being labeled randomly

  They lost their confidence by thinking that they are not capable of joining school's extracurricular activities
• Students being in homogeneous sections


  They put too much pressure on themselves because of the high expectations of others
• Fiedler Lange: 'In a homogeneous section wherein a room full of children with a range of skills and abilities are present, it is deemed impossible to teach, and it effects to the students also becoming confused or unfocused'
• Bær (2003): 'Students in a homogeneous leveling can be a great influence over the average ability students due to them performing better and learning easier than the others'
• This topic aims to know what is the experience of each students when it comes to academic performances and their mental state during the reoccurrence of homogenous section ranking to the beloved junior high school students of Heritage Homes Integrated School