Development and Validation of Learning Modules in Drrr for Senior High School

Abstract

Introduction

Research and Development allow any field of industry especially in the field of education for further innovations, introduction, improvements of outputs and scientific processes. K-12 Curriculum arises in the field of education to make every Filipino learner become globally competent and equipped enough to face the world in and outside the country. Part of this change, an additional 2 years was added to the curriculum and named it Senior High School. At the beginning of the program, administrators, teachers, and even students are not mentally and emotionally ready to face the new trends. As the years go by, the program was implemented and some of its strengths and weaknesses were revealed through time and experiences by the curriculum implementer. One of its weaknesses is the lack of Learning Guides and Modules especially for DRRR which is necessary in today's world condition full of disasters. That's why the researcher came up to develop a learning module in DRRR.

Methods

This study is classified as a Research and Development project in which the term "product" refers to the self-learning modules. The study used an experimental design to introduce the new learning module in Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction to senior high school. It used to compare the effectiveness of a self-learning module in DRRR with a class without the module and a class with the module. The module underwent validation of experts and users. The researcher used pretest-posttest control group design in answering the hypothesis and validation by users.

Results

In the development and validation of the module using the appropriate instrument and statistical treatment applied for every data presented, the research came up with 1. The developed module was aligned with the curriculum guide promulgated by the Department of Education for their learning competencies; 2. The developed modules were highly acceptable based on experts' evaluation in their relevance of the content, Adequacy of scope and appropriateness of teaching procedure. ; 3. The developed module on the Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction was effective since the experimental group (with module) got a higher learning gain (the difference between pretest and post-test) compared to the control group (without module).

Discussions

The results of this study clearly show that the developed modules are tools for increasing students’ academic performance. This study may beadopted by other teachers in the field to improve their teaching methodology.