Development and Validation of Teacher -Made Workbook in Information Computer Technology Subject for Grade Seven

Abstract

The study was conducted to develop and validate the teacher-made workbook in Computer 7. It determined what kind of workbook could be develop for the fourth quarter period in Computer 7 intended to teach students to use OpenOffice Writer as their word-processing program instead of MS Word. It also measured the curricular validity thru Evaluation of Individual Lessons and Its Activities (EILIA) and statistical validity by determining the Knowledge, Skills and Attitude (KSA) of the students after using the teacher-made workbook. The respondents of the study were seven jurors who were ICT 7 teachers of Camarines Sur National High School –Liboton Annex and the students of the sections Procyon and Rigel. The Jurors were asked to answer the Evaluation of Individual Lessons and Its Activities (EILIA), while the students’ periodical exams were used to determine KSA. It has been concluded that the EILIA results showed that the workbook in general is a very good reference material for teaching students of OpenOffice Writer, and also true specifically to the content, technical and pedagogical aspects respectively. Also, the results of the periodical exams of the students who used the workbook showed that their performance were not significantly different to those who were taught with MS Word in terms of knowledge and skills. It was then concluded that OpenOffice Writer with the aid of the workbook can serve as an alternative to MS Word as their word-processing software in Computer 7. The students’ attitude towards the workbook however resulted that they neutral toward the workbook in terms of the ease of use, usefulness and the workbook’s ability to stimulate their interests to learn OpenOffice Writer. Due to the very good rating by the jurors to the workbook, the jurors have realized and concluded that there is no need for the workbook to be revised until there is a need to do so. Until then, it was therefore concluded that the workbook will serve as a good reference for teaching OpenOffice Writer as a substitute for Microsoft Word.