Effectiveness of Tundos Para Puntos to Increase Performance Level in Gardening Activities of Agricultural Crop Production Students
Keywords:
Effectiveness, Tundos para Puntos, Performance level, Gardening ActivitiesAbstract
INTRODUCTION
Gardening is fun and is a skill that, once acquired, can be a lifelong hobby. Spending time outside, exploring in the soil, watching seeds grow, and harvesting the bounty can be enjoyable and memorable ways for students to spend their time. Through gardening, students become responsible caretakers.(Kids Gardening. org, 2016).In Carmen National Agricultural High School, one of the problems encountered in Agricultural Crop Production is the low performance of students in gardening activities based from the monitoring, observation, and attendance made by the researcher who herself is the subject teacher. Thus, the Tundos para Puntos gardening strategy will be used to improve performance level in gardening activities of Agricultural Crop Production students.
METHODS
This study employed descriptive method. Purposive sampling was used in this research since the identified 15 students in Grade 8 Agricultural High School with low performance in gardening were the respondents.
RESULTS
In the first quarter of school year 2018-2019, the researcher's assessment revealed that only 4 out of 15 students meet expectations high in the criteria of attendance, 4 out of 15 students meet high expectations in the criteria of number of hills of eggplant alive, and 4 out of 15 students meet expectations high in the work performance criteria. The findings revealed that there is an increase of the level of performance in gardening of Agricultural Crop Production students through the application of the "Tundos para Puntos" intervention.
DISCUSSIONS
The researcher faced challenges on how the students will be engaged and be motivated in the activity. To make gardening attractive and meaningful in school, the researcher used the "Tundos para Puntos" gardening strategy as extrinsic motivation to improve the performance level in gardening activities of Grade 8 students under Agricultural Crop Production.
