The Preparedness, Readiness, and Necessity of MTAP Review: Inputs to a Strengthened Guidelines for a School-Based Review Implementation

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

A Review Course Guideline is a set of instructions that are methodically put together to form a plan that the students can follow be their map as they journey through their chosen vocation. Without a formal Review Course Guideline, the students and teachers would not have a clear guideline to follow other than just suggestions from instructors, relatives, friends, schoolmates, and others who know about the process. Sometimes, however, these suggestions are inappropriate or somewhat of the course. Initially, the MTAP review class came into existence as a result of extreme necessity to strengthen the teaching of Mathematics, which is plaguing both public and the private school offering elementary and high school. In this study, the researcher focused on the practices during the review of MTAP-Department of Education Saturday Classes, where being a reviewer teacher the researcher encountered some difficulties in the implementation of the procedure.

METHODS

This research used the descriptive method to gather and describe information about the strengthened review guidelines for MTAP. The respondents were Eighty-Two (82) teachers, One Hundred Seventy (170) pupils, and One Hundred Seventy (170) parents, a total of Four Hundred Twenty-Two (422) respondents. They were all given a set of questionnaires that were then interpreted using different statistical treatments such as percentage, weighted mean, and t-test.

RESULTS

Based on the data gathered, results were as follows; All group of respondents felt the necessity of MTAP Review, but it seemed that they are not properly motivated on its importance. All groups of respondents were only fairly prepared and ready on the conduct of MTAP Review. All groups agreed to develop a formalized review guideline for MTAP Review to strengthen the success of the review classes.

DISCUSSIONS

Extensive dissemination of information regarding the conduct of the MTAP Review should be conducted to attract more parents and pupils to join the review classes to attain its primary objective of giving skills in the field of Mathematics. Further studies and evaluation on this line should be conducted to keep track of the strength and weaknesses of MTAP Reviews.