Passbook Activity: An Intervention to Increase the Performance Rate of Grade 11 Students in General Mathematics at Gen. E. Aguinaldo National High School - Bailen

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Learning mathematics is not that easy, especially most of the students are considering mathematics as difficult (Abdul Gafoor, K.& Kurukkan, Abidha, 2015 ). It is shown with the 2015 National Achievement Test results in Division of Cavite which was very low at 35.54% mastery and ranked lowest among the five learning areas being tested. Also, the majority of the 11th Graders in Gen. E. Aguinaldo National High School-Bailen who were enrolled in the General Academic Strand (GAS) showed difficulty in learning General Mathematics. In this action research study, the researcher investigated the use of passbook activity, a small group cooperative learning and whether working in small groups changed learners' achievement.

METHODS

The researcher used the identified 50 learners, 25 from 11-Luna and 25 from 11-Rizal who were performing low in the first quarter. To check the significant difference between the achievement scores before and after the implementation of the intervention program, the researcher used a T-test between two means between two dependent samples.

RESULTS

Based on the test results before and after the implementation of the passbook activity, the majority of the learners got higher test results. The learners in the second quarter after the intervention obtained a mean score of 25.33 (SD=7.38), higher than the mean before the implementation of the passbook activity which was 19.08 (SD=4.41). The result showed that there is an increase with mean score of the learners which is 6.25 (32.76%). The computed t-value 7.16 is greater than the tabular value of 1.68 at49 degrees of freedom. Hence the hypothesis of no significant difference is rejected. So, there is a significant difference in the achievement scores of learners before and after the implementation of the passbook activity program at 0.05 level of significance.

DISCUSSIONS

The results revealed that, in general, learners had improved their performance in General Mathematics. The mean score of the learners gained a particular increase. It means that there was an improvement in the learners' academic performance which proved that Passbook Activity Intervention Program is effective. Also, there was a significant difference between the achievement scores of learners before and after the implementation of the passbook activity intervention program.