Home Visitation Approach: As Remedial Education tool in Earth and Life Science Subject among the Senior High School Students in San Pascual District

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study saw that most of the attention of modern learners were divided into different activities. In this research, another Learning Approach was developed which help in enhancing student's performance, build intellectual capacity and skills in science. Other researchers focused only on remedial education or solely in-Home Visitation yet inthis study these two were combined and incorporated with different strategies which resulted to an Effective Teaching Approach.

METHODS

The study used a questionnaire designed for parents and students and Pre-test and Post-test specifically for students. Slovin's Formula was used to achieve Two hundred fifty-five (255) parents who were asked to answer questionnaire. Two hundred fifty-five (255) students answered the questionnaire and 30-item pretest and 30-item post-test. The collected data were treated through quantitative analysis which employed specific statistical tools such as Rank, Percentage and Frequency Distribution, Weighted mean and t-Test of correlated or paired samples.

RESULTS

Home Visitation Approach as Remedial Education gave reinforcement activities to the students, provided better opportunity and time for learning, motivated the students to correct behavior toward school, and increased level of student’s performance and decreased students' dropouts. The performance of the students was also tested before and after the remedial education through home visitation, and the results were fairly satisfactory and very satisfactory respectively. It was also revealed that there is a significant difference in the students' performance before and after the remedial education. Action Plan utilized in this study was also recorded as effective based on the general result of the study.

DISCUSSIONS

The results present that the students need to give importance to Home Visitation Approach as Tool in Remedial Education to increase level of performance. The teachers should also lend time to have Home Visitation and Remedial Education to provide students better opportunity and time for learning. They may also use Action Plan incorporated into this study. Likewise, parents and teachers need to work hand in hand to use the developed learning approach.