Development and Validation of a Design Guide for K to 12-Based Science Learning Materials for Open High School Program (OHSP)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Open High School Program (OHSP) is a type of an alternative delivery mode (ADM) under the Drop-Out Reduction Program (DORP) of the Department of Education that gives formal education to students through distance-learning scheme offering different modalities of learning. Students enrolled in this program are those who are not capable of going to regular classes.

But since the implementation of K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum in 2011, the learning materials used for the OHSP are still based on the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC). This resulted in the curriculum mismatch delivered by the said program. Hence, this study developed and validated a design guide in creating K to 12-based learning materials for the OHSP.

METHODS

To effectively achieve its primary purpose, this study utilized Developmental Research Design and involved the following major phases for the development and validation of the design guide and sample learning materials: 1) development of the design guide; 2) validation and evaluation of the design guide; 3) development of learning materials using the design guide; 4) content validation of the learning materials; and 5) try-out and finalization of the learning materialsThe design guide and the learning materials went through validations from forty-six (46) curriculum experts. After the validation, the learning materials were administered to sixty-two (62) Grade 8 OHSP students to get their perception.

RESULTS

As a result of the two-rounds of validation, the design guide was given an overall mean score of 4.96 [SD=0.15] with a high degree of acceptability. The printed and electronic modules got an overall mean rating of 4.92 [SD=0.23] and 4.84 [SD=0.33], respectively, with high acceptability from the curriculum experts.

Meanwhile, on the try-out and finalization phase, the OHSP students rated the printed learning material with 4.59 [SD=0.72] and the electronic learning material with 4.89 [SD=0.40].

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the result of the validation of curriculum experts and perception of the OHSP students, it can be said that the developed and validated design guide and learning materials have a high level of acceptability from its evaluators. The developed learning material got a high perception rating from the OHSP students who used them. Thus, the learning materials developed using the designguide are suitable and caters to the needs of the learners under the said program.