A Comparative Analysis on the Outcome of the Program Dapat and Dapat-Sapat: An Intervention Program in Reading Comprehension in Filipino among Selected Grade 7and 8 Students of Geanhs-Bailen

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

As the Philippines implemented the change in the educational system, the K -12 plays an essential role in achieving 21st-century learners. Through continuous experimentation of strategies, methodologies, approaches, training and enhancements are provided to teachers, the perennial problems in education still exist. One of those is the difficulty in reading comprehension especially in language subjects (e.g., Filipino, English). Thus, this paper presents the comparative analysis of two (2) different intervention programs given to selected Grade 7 and 8 Students of Gen. E. Aguinaldo National High School-Bailen conducted last 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.

METHODS

Results from the two (2) intervention programs were the main source of data. The first intervention program ( DAPAT) was conducted from October 2017-January 2018. The second intervention program (DAPAT-SAPAT) was conducted from October 2018-January 2019. The students were given pre-test to determine the beneficiary ofthe program. The identified 30 respondents were given interventions and tests eight times a month to identify the level of reading comprehension skills before and after the implementation. At the end of the program, the respondents were given post-test to determine the significance of the study and the paired T-test was used.

RESULTS

The findings have spoken that there is a slight improvement on the first and second month of implementation of the two programs. In fact, the program DAPAT garnered 63.33% MPS on the first month and 66.58% MPS on the second resulting to 3.25% difference, while the program DAPAT-SAPAT garnered 64.14% MPS on the first month and 67.75% MPS on the second resulting to 3.61% difference.

On the contrary, the third and fourth month of implementation made a drastic change in the RESULTS

It garnered 76.083% MPS and 88.583% MPS with 12.5% difference and 76.17% MPS and 90.58% MPS with 14.41% difference. The implementation, as interpreted, has an extreme significance to the development of the reading comprehension skills of the students. Generally, the two programs garnered 54.22% MPS with 18.29% difference and 62.13% MPS with 18.93% difference.

DISCUSSIONS

This study concludes that there is an extreme significance to the development of Reading Comprehension Skills among selected Grade 7 and 8 students of the two intervention programs conducted by the Filipino Department of Gen. E. Aguinaldo National High School-Bailen.