Development of Activity Instructional Materials in Teaching Mapeh Arts for Grade Five Pupils: It's Acceptability

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Instructional materials play an important role in ensuring the effectiveness of teaching and learning activities. Workbook and worksheets are one of the important materials for achieving the goals of educational activities. It is a kind of printed instructional materials that is prepared and frequently used by teachers in order to help students to gain knowledge, skills, and values by providing and developing helpful workbook for them especially in teaching MAPEH-Arts.

METHODS

The study utilized the descriptive methods of research. According to Shuttleworth (2008), the descriptive research design is a scientific method that involves observing and describing the behavior of a subject without influencing it in any way. In this case, the acceptability of the developed instructional activity sheets will be assessed by means of describing different criteria to come up with a description of the material being evaluated, and thus the descriptive method is the most preferred method in this particular study.

RESULTS

The extent of utilization of instructional materials in teaching MAPEH-Arts for Grade 5 pupils is much utilized with an overall weighted mean of 3.83. There is a significant difference between the academic achievement of Grade 5 pupils in their pre-test and post-test results before and after using the activity instructional materials.

DISCUSSIONS

The results were drawn based on the data gathered. The extent of utilization of instructional materials in teaching MAPEH-Arts for Grade 5 was much utilized and the instructional workbook was acceptable.