Developmentof Strategic Intervention Materials in Teaching Human Philosophy for Senior High School Students among Public Secondary Schools

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The main problem of the study is to design to evaluate the developed Strategic Intervention Materials In Teaching Human Philosophy. The following problem to be sought by the researcher;level of the student performance in; Achievement test ; Results of Formative Test ; and Final Grade for the 1 st Quarter, the competencies to be developed in the design SIM for Human Philosophy namely; Knowledge, Comprehension, Application and Synthesis, Results of the validation of the teacher experts in the Developed SIM. And the results of Pre Test and Post Test Among Controlled and Experimental Group.

METHODS

The respondents of the study are the 8 teacher experts in Social Sciences from the second district of Tiaong with 3-5 years of teaching experiences across the fields and 70 students selected from purposive random sampling, 30 of them are treated as controlled and the rest are treated as experimental. Descriptive-experimental is the design of this study. The mean was used for the documentary analysis, Weighted Mean for the validation of teachers -experts and dependent t-test for the results of Pre Test and Post Test.

RESULTS

It was proven that students took up Human Philosophy based on the documentary analysis. The competencies, which are design in the develop SIM was based on the Curriculum competencies as prescribed by the Dep Ed. The develop SIM in teaching Human Philosophy was Highly Accepted by the teacher -expert who validates. The Mean of the PreTest of Experimental and Controlled Group are 9.23 and 9.89. The computed t-value is -1.214 which is lower than the tabulated value so that there is no significant difference. The mean of the Post Test from the Experimental and Controlled Group is 15.33 and 11.12. The computed t-value was -6.9 in which higher than the tabular value of 2.045 so that it implies that there is a significant difference and prove that the developed SIM is effective.

DISCUSSIONS

The decreasing academic performance shows that there are needs for the enhancement of strategies based on the documentary analysis. The competencies design in the SIM proves that students can enrich based on the needs of students. The results in the acceptance of Developed SIM by the teacher -expert in Social sciences, proves that there are in need of innovation and strategies in teaching Human Philosophy. The results of the significant difference shows that the developed SIM becomes a stepping stone to enhance the academic skills and performance in teaching human Philosophy.