Parent-Teacher Partnership in Developing the Reading Comprehension Skills of Grade 6 pupils in Bato District

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Improving reading comprehension is a major concern of the educational system. Despite the various programs and projects designed to improve the literacy level, the PHIL-IRI and academic performance showed that there were big numbers of Grade 6 pupils who were not able to read and comprehend. This study determined the Parent-Teacher Partnership in Developing the Reading Comprehension Skills of Grade 6 pupils in Bato District.

METHODS

Descriptive-evaluative-inferential correlational method with documentary analysis was employed. A total of 23 elementary grade 6 teachers and 321 parents responded to the rating scale while 321 elementary grade 6 pupils responded the comprehension skills test which served as the basis in determining the reading comprehension of the pupils and the extent of parents and teachers' participation in developing grade 6 pupils' reading comprehension skills. Frequency count, percentage, rank, weighted mean, MPL, Kruskall-Wallis one-way Anova, Wilcoxon Mann Whitney U test, and Kendall Coefficient of Concordance W with the corresponding Chi-square test were used to treat the data statistically. Significant level was set at 0.05.

RESULTS

The Profile of Reading Comprehension Skills of the Grade 6 Pupils in Bato District. The mean and MPL of the different skills were: Noting Details 42.45%; Sequencing Events 56.5%; Identifying Character Traits 46.5%; Getting the Main Idea 40.3%; Getting the Meaning of the Word 35.6%; Organizing Ideas 40.25%; Predicting Outcomes/Making Inferences 38.5%; Summarizing of Ideas 40.75% and Evaluating Ideas 35.1%. Based from the data, the overall rating of the reading comprehension profile of the pupils was, "Needs Improvement" and therefore, below the target. Parents and teachers' assessment on their extent of participation in developing the pupils reading comprehension skills were tested in terms of the different dimensions. There is a significant difference on the parents and teachers' assessment on their extent of participation in developing the reading comprehension skills. There is a significant difference on the parents and teachers' assessment on their extent of participation in developing the pupils' reading comprehension skills.

DISCUSSIONS

The results have shown the need of the formulated policy recommendations by the researcher to be observed and practiced by parents and teachers in developing the pupils' reading comprehension skills in Bato District for the attainment of an improved academic performance.