Development, Validation and Acceptability of Enhancement Material in English for Grade 3 Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The main objective of the study is to validate enhancement material in English 3 for the pupils of Navotas Elementary School in the school year 2018 -2019.

The subjects of the study were the grade 3 pupils of Navotas Elementary School. A total of one hundred 74 pupils were considered in the study, thirty-seven (37) served as the experimental group and thirty-seven (37)were in the control group.

METHODS

A teacher-made questionnaire test is composed of 10 items for each competency and has undergone validation.

Thirty (30) public elementary school teachers who are teaching English 3 were also considered as respondents of the study since they validated the acceptability of the developed enhancement material in English 3.

After the selection of the respondents used in the study, the researcher classified the experimental group and control group. When pretest was validated and item analyzed, the researcher administered the pretest to the two groups of respondents. The experimental group was taught using the enhancement material in English 3 while the control group was taught without using the enhancement material in English 3. After the conduct of the study, the posttest was given to both groups to determine the enhancement material in English 3. The data were tallied, analyzed and subjected to appropriate statistical treatment.

RESULTS

The findings revealed that the enhancement material in English 3 was found to be valid and acceptable learning material. A significant difference was observed between the performance of the experimental group and the control group. From the findings of the study, it is concluded that the achievement of the experimental group in English 3 significantly changed as compared to the performance of the control groups.

DISCUSSIONS

The results described that the enhancement material in English 3 is highly acceptable by the respondents. Since the computed p-value is 0.000 is less than 0.05 level of significance. Also, there is a significant difference in the level of performance of grade 3 pupils in the experimental group as revealed by pretest and posttest results since the computed p-value of 0.00 is less than 0.05 level of significance.