Curriculum Enhancement in Filipino for Grade 9

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Educational curriculum enhancements were made to suit and cater to the needs of the child's educational development particularly in the cognitive aspect.

The main concern of the study was to enhance the curriculum using the module in Filipino for Grade 9 students to give focus on the development of students' work habits and skills. This aims to help the students to gear up and be equipped with knowledge that would make them globally competitive.

METHODS

This study used the descriptive research design descriptive research deals with the relationship between variables, the testing hypothesis and the development of theories that have universal validity. The respondents of the study are the Head Teachers and Grade 9 Filipino Teachers in Ten (10) schools in CARSIGMA. The researcher used a survey questionnaire to assess the module in Filipino Grade 9 and the other instrument used was a teacher made test in First Periodical Test. The researcher used statistical treatment are the following: 1. Percentage, 2. Weighted mean, 3. Frequency distribution, 4. Mean Percentile Score, 5. Pearson's r.

RESULTS

In the Four criteria learning objectives was the only one that evaluated Acceptable with the overall mean of 4.16. The three other criteria were assessed Very acceptable the content got an overall mean of 4.40, Strategies with 4.37 and the materials with the overall mean of 4.47. This further indicates that the null hypothesis is rejected and that there is a significant correlation between the least mastered skills and the assessment of the respondents on the existing module as to learning objectives. In terms of content, the Pearson r value (.0789) revealed that there is a weak positive relationship between the assessment of the respondents on the existing module and the least mastered skills. The p-value is lesser than .05 level of significance, therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and that there is a significant correlation between the two variables.

DISCUSSIONS

After obtaining the results, it shows that there is a weak positive relationship between the least mastered skills of the students and the assessment of respondents on the existing module. A curriculum support material (CSM) has been developed to help the grade 9 Filipino Teachers in raising the student's achievement and level of performance.