TABLET and Science Academic Performance of Grade 11 HUMSS Students of Maddela Comprehensive High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum aims to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, as stated in the Republic Act 10533. However, mastery of the competencies is not evident as revealed by the NAT results and the GWA grade of Grade 11 GAS and TVL students. Therefore, this research was conducted to test whether the utilization of Teamwork and Activity Based Learning through Electronic Technology (TABLET) would significantly upgrade the Science Academic Performance of Grade 11 HUMSS Students of Maddela Comprehensive High School.

METHODS

This research employs purposive sampling in the form of taking all the 43 HUMSS students as the appropriate participants of the study. Pre-test posttest research design was utilized in this study.

Pretest was given to the class before the implementation of the TABLET to draw-out conclusion based on the information given. After TABLET was utilized, a posttest measuring the same competencies was given to the participants to find out if there is significant difference in their scores. The statistical tools used to analyze the data were Mean, Standard Deviation, Paired Sample T-test and Eta2 through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 21).

RESULTS

The TABLET was used for activities with computer aided instructional materials. Students work as a team in doing the assigned task and presented creatively using technology as well. Through this, students got an achievement level of moving towards mastery on the competency based from their posttest mean score of M= 22.90. This implies that there was improvement in the level of achievement and enhancement of the required skills after the implementation of the intervention. There is also a significant difference on the Pre-and-Post Tests scores of (t = -14.297, p < 0.0005) after utilizing the TABLET. The effect size of TABLET was large. This implies that the intervention used among the participants significantly help in enhancing their level of Science academic performance.

DISCUSSIONS

The result revealed that the performance of the students' needs more interventions, techniques and strategies to meet the required 2first Century skills to be developed by the students based fromthe aforementioned results. Therefore, the researcher proposes the application of TABLET for the lessons on Earth System and should be adopted as one of the teaching technique and strategies in teaching Earth Science.