Development and Validation of Module in Araling Panlipunan 10 for Open High School Program in the Division of Antipolo City

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Education is a continuous and never-ending process in response to the needs and demands of the times and conditions. The 1987 Constitution guarantees the right to education of every Filipino. The Constitution, recognizing this right, explicitly mandates that every individual regardless of age, sex, race, political or socio-economic status must enjoy access to quality and relevant basic education. To this end, the Bureau of Secondary Education has designed the Open High SchoolProgram (OHSP), as an alternative mode of secondary education. The program offers an opportunity for those who desire to complete the high school curriculum outside of the formal school structure. This study somehow answers the calls of necessities particularly when it comes to insufficient and outdated instructional materials as one of the challenges faced by schools that implement the Open High School Program.

METHODS

The study used the experimental, descriptive and developmental research design with pretest and posttest. One group of Grade 10 Open High School students was the experimental group exposed to the developed instructional material in teaching Contemporary Issues in Araling Panlipunan 10 and the other group was the control group who taught using the lecture-discussion method. The descriptive research design was employed in the study since the expert-respondents were tasked to describe their validation on the module using a 5-point Likert scale with corresponding verbal interpretation to interpret their responses and the study was also developmental in nature since it was focused on developing instructional module.

RESULTS

The developed Instructional Module passed all criteria as assessed by the Experts. Thus, considered valid as teaching material in Araling Panlipunan 10 for Open High School Program. Although modular and traditional teaching can improve the understanding of the Grade 10 Open High School as evident in the results of pretest and posttest, students who were exposed to the developed instructional Module showed an exceptional increased in understanding in the different lessons in Araling Panlipunan 10.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate that the developed module can be utilized in teaching the subject in the Open High School program. And since it only focuses on one subject area, teachers in another subject may also develop a module for more effective delivery of lessons.