Effects of Utilizing Brain Gym Exercises in MAPEH Education Performances of Grade 10 Students of M.B. Asistio Sr. High School

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of the Brain Gym exercises among the Grade 10 students of M.B. Asistio Sr. High School in Caloocan City. The program was made to test between the experimental group of students from sections Fibonacci and Euler which performed the Brain Gym exercises in the MAPEH subjects for 10 minutes and the controlled group of students from Galilei and Aristotle which held the regular classes without the Brain Gym exercises. The researcher designed a pre-test and post-test given to those respondents before and after the introduction of the Brain Gym exercises using the third quarter topics within a period of two months from November 20, 2017 until January 12, 2018. The results of this study indicated that there is a considerable change between the pre-test and the post-test scores of the experimental and controlled groups. The student-respondents in the experimental group had shown improved knowledge about the third quarter topics in Music and Arts than those student-respondents in the controlled group after the Brain Gym exercises program was conducted in the experimental group before the delivery of the third quarter topics in the MAPEH classes. The control group which was not subjected with using the Brain Gym, however; had shown better results in their pre-tests and post-tests for the third quarter in MAPEH. It also suggested that there was a significant difference between the scores of the two groups after the two-month session of brain gym exercises. The study confirms the influence of the Brain Gym exercises and showed favourable results to physical activities in the experimental group. Thus, Brain Gym exercises must be given to students in the Physical Education courses to further enhance their active participation and increase their academic performances.