Engaging Rodriguez National High School Stakeholders in Improving the Learners’ Outcomes

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This action research aimed to engage the stakeholders of Rodriguez National High School, Pili, Camarines Sur in improving the learners’ outcomes for the school year 2016-2017. Learning outcomes refers to the increase of mean final rating and improvement on the students’ reading and comprehension skills using a descriptive method of research with nine varied interventions implemented in attaining the expected outputs.

METHODS

This research employed a descriptive and developmental method of research in answering the problems stated in line with the efforts of maximizing stakeholders' involvement in the improvement of learning outcomes.

RESULTS

In line with the attainment of the objectives, the following were the findings: 1] on the level of involvement for the improvement of learning outcomes, both teachers and school head had very high results; 2] on the teaching and assessment strategies employed during teaching-learning sessions, both group discussion, and written examinations topped the lists with very high results; 3] maximum involvement of school stakeholders -alumni, parents, students, teachers and community leaders for the school improvement rank first among the different innovations, interventions and strategies implemented; 4] encourage stakeholders like alumni, parents for continued initiative/programs for the school improvement ranked first in the list of stakeholders' suggestions and5] improvement in the learning outcomes was very evident among Grade 7 students on their mean final rating and reading and comprehension skills.

DISCUSSIONS

The NAT IV result of Rodriguez National High School, Pili, Camarines Sur, for the school year 2014-2015 revealed that it was beyond the standard rating of 75% National Mean Percentile Score which was 45.15% only. With these statistics, it is assumed that learners do not perform well which resulted in low performance in their academic activities. Since National Achievement Test results are no longer uploaded when this action research was finished, the researcher replaced the said data with that of the students mean final rating in all learning areas since the same data was used to replace the NAT Results in the teachers and school heads individual Performance Rating (IPR).