School Environment and National Achievement Test (NAT) Performance of Grade VI Pupils in Selected Public Elementary Schools in the Division of Calamba City, School Year 2012-2015

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Education has been the primary focus of different governments for centuries. From the dynastic and feudal era wherein scholars emerged to build up the European Renaissance, to the uprising of civil rights movements in the industrial era, education has been proven as a tool that can make, or break, a whole society.

The National Achievement Tests (NAT) are aimed in assessing the abilities and skills of graduating elementary or high school students to assess their knowledge and capabilities in five (5) disciplines such as Filipino, English, Mathematics, Science, and Araling Panlipunan. An awareness of the school environment reactions can enable teachers, parents, and peers to understand them better.

METHODS

This study used a descriptive-correlational method to describe the school environment of selected public elementary schools in Calamba City and to assess the relationship of variables such as: school environment and National Achievement Test performance of the said pupils.

This study covered the nine (9) selected public elementary schools in Calamba City. The nine schools belonging to the district areas namely: Siranglupa Elementary School, San. Ramon Elementary School, Mayapa Elementary School, Mapagong Elementary School, Latian Elementary School, Majada Out Elementary School, Ronggot Elementary School, Palingon Elementary School, and Looc Elementary School.

RESULTS

The foregoing findings though not exactly identical with the studies of past research personalities in the persons of Moraleda, Steenson, Feigenberg, and Taylor,(2008) and the on-the-spot observations of Department of Education Sec. Luistro in terms of venue and time frame, but somehow both the past and present studies, are collateral and peripheral with one another along the relationships of school-related factors and climate conditions, and the National Achievement Performance of Grade VI pupils in public elementary schools in the Division of Calamba City. The level of National Achievement Test performance of grade 6 pupils in the nine selected public elementary schools in the Division of Calamba City is Satisfactory

DISCUSSIONS

: 1.Principals and teachers need to come together and analyze the exposure of big schools to environmental household waste hazards particularly those in the densely populated areas and launch a total campaign for environmental protection. 2. Principals and teachers need to spearhead a total war against environmental hazards directly affecting the climate conditions of schools.