Development and Evaluation of Work-Text Reviewer: Grammar Focus for Nat English VI

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Education has been implementing a system-based assessment which was specifically designed to gauge learning outcomes across target levels in identified period of basic education. Yearly, all the grade six teachers in every school is prompted to do some techniques that will improve or raise the performance of the sixth graders in the National Achievement Test. The proponent, being one of the teacher-advisers in grade six delves deeper into developing instructional learning material particularly in English that focuses mainly on grammar lessons of the least learned mastered competencies

METHODS

The study made use of descriptive method of research. A total of 67 public elementary teacher-respondents comprise of 50 grade six English teachers/Master teachers/English critics and 17 principals/school heads from Santa Cruz District, Division of Laguna were involved. Purposive sampling was utilized in the selection of evaluators and made use of questionnaires as main tool to gather necessary data about the developed work-text reviewer as to their structures and features.

RESULTS

The overall weighted means of 4.45, 4.47, 4.43, 4.55, 4.52, 4.56, and 4.63 of the teacher-evaluators implies that the structures, objectives, discussions, activities, features, usability, suitability, consistency and creativity of the work-text reviewer were evaluated as “extremely acceptable”. The overall weighted means of 4.57, 4.49, 4.48, 4.45, 4.46, 4.69 and 4.85 of the principal-evaluators implies that the structures: objectives, discussions, activities, features, usability, suitability, consistency and creativity of the work-text reviewer were evaluated as “extremely acceptable”.

DISCUSSIONS

From the data gathered and analyzed, conclusion was derived that there is no significant difference in their evaluation of the developed work-text. This indicates that the work-text reviewer is partially acceptable to both groups and therefore can be used as a supplementary learning material in teaching English VI. Validation of the developed through an experimental method must be done to find out its true effectiveness. Future researchers may produce more comprehensive instructional materials to sustain not onlythe grammar or language usage needs of pupils but also the other aspects of English subject itself.