Intervention Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In the social cognitive perspective, students' academic performance skills result from continuous, reciprocal interactions among behavior(e.g. social skills), the external environment, cognitive, and other internal events that can affect perceptions and actions. Students' social behaviorseems to promote or hinder their learning, and their academic performance may influencetheir behaviorand opportunities to develop social skills and relationships. This study was pursued for the reason of finding out the effect of social skills on the academic performance of students in the context of student diversity in the upland part ofthe Province of Cavite which is composed of students mostly coming from the different barangays in the Municipality of Amadeo. This motivated the researcher to study the different social skills of these students vis-a-vis their academic performance .

METHODS

This study employed the descriptive research approach. Descriptive research is characterized by ascertaining prevailing conditions of facts in a group or case under study. It gives either a qualitative or quantitative or both, description of the general characteristics of the group or case under study. Moreover, the study of condition at different periods of time may be made and the change or progress that took place between the periods may be noted or evaluated for any value it gives. The respondents in this study were the grade 8 learners of the Junior High in the municipality of Amadeo who were randomly selected and the teachers of Amadeo National High School, Halang Banay Banay National High School , Pangil National High School, and Talon National High School. The respondents were tasked to assess the acceptability of the developed intervention program. To determine the needed data, questionnaires, the Learning Outcome Assessment (LOA )result, and School Form 5 were used in the study.

RESULTS

The results of the study revealed that the learners perform and showed very often the different social skills involved in the study. The academic performance of the respondents for the last three weeks was at the Fairly Satisfactory level. Social skills is significantly related to academic performance of Grade 8 learners with regards to empathy, responsibility, self-control, and assertiveness. There is a significant relationship between social skills and academic performance of the grade 8 learners.The teachers agreed that they encountered 12 social skills problems as evidenced of overall weighted mean. An intervention program was developed to improve the social skills and academic achievement of learners in the English subject.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the findings, the learners perform the different social skills very often. Wherein self-control was the most practiced skills and assertiveness as the less practiced skills in terms of the ranking considerations. The academic performance of the Grade 8 learners in English was at the Fairly Satisfactory level. The resulting academic performance can still be brought out to the higher level upon providing intervention strategies to improve the least mastered skills in English. Social skills has significant relationship with the English academic performance of Grade 8 learners. Social skills performed positively influence the achievement of the learners. The teachers agreed that different problems on the social skills were encountered by the Grade 8 learners. To improve both the social skills and academic achievement, an intervention program was developed considering the frequency of the performance of positive social skills and also the level of mastery of the learners in the English subject.