ICT Instruction: Empowering Grade 11 Students' Technological Skills

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

For a school to be an effective delivery system, it must adapt to the rapid changes that are taking place. For instance, the use of ICT is progressively growing and now considered as a necessity and an opportunity for learning. Thus, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of ICT instruction in empowering grade 11 students' technological skills.

METHODS

The study made use of experimental research design with teacher-made tests and performance rubrics as main data gathering instruments. The respondents of the study were60 grade 11 students enrolled during the school year 2017-2018. Data were interpreted using the following statistical tools: frequency, percentage, and t-test.

RESULTS

Pre-test score reveals that most of the respondents on both tracks have a fairly satisfactory level on understanding in cognitive skills and psychomotor before exposing to screen capture-based and demonstration teaching while post-test score shows that both tracks improved their abilities in psychomotor in terms of technological skills. Furthermore, there is no significant difference in the pre-test score of GAS and TVL-Cookery students. However, there is a significant difference in the post-test scores of GAS and TVL-Cookery students in cognitive skills that indicated in advanced word and advanced excel.

DISCUSSIONS

The results reveal that screen captured-based and demonstration teaching is an effective teaching instruction in enhancing students' performance in ICT regardless of the student's track in senior high school. Through this study, administrators can provide teachers more pieces of training and seminars on the new innovative teaching instruction which can address the increasing needs of different types of learners. Future researchers may as well consider the use of a free online application such as Appypie.com and incorporate the product or output made of screen captured-based instruction into a mobile software application.