Performance Level of Students From Dysfunctional Family of Comon High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The family is the child's first place with the world. It is a single unit where parents display love, care, respect, kindness, etc. The child, as a result, gains basic education and socialization from parents and other significant persons in the family. In a complete family, it is evident that the attendance of parents to children helps improve proficiency in learning. Furthermore, parents with strong financial aid can better understand and provide educational needs to their children. On the other hand, a dysfunctional family with the absence of parents is believed to be the primary cause of a child's mislead life. Children's' emotions, aspirations, and dreamstend to be broken into pieces. Moreover, in the absence of parents, children tend to have low self-esteem and are pre-occupied with many things that affect their academic performance. It was observed that there are 32 students from dysfunctional families that have low performance level in all learning areas. The researcher desires to implement innovation to help these students improve performance levels.

METHODS

The teacher made test is the research method used to determine the performance level in the pre-test before intervention is implemented. It is utilized to identify what competencies in the subject are mastered and the least mastered skills. These least mastered skills are addressed by the implementation of peer learning as an intervention. A post-test is implemented to determine the performance level after the intervention was implemented.

RESULTS

Performance level in the pre-test in all subjects' appears 34%. It entails that students have little knowledge about the topics and it gives the idea on the depth of knowledge needed. In post-test it is 65% after the implementation of peer learning as an intervention. The performance level of students in the dysfunctional family improved through the application of "peer learning" as revealed in the study.

DISCUSSIONS

Peer mentoring is a strategy that ignites students' learning mood and focus. Students have the opportunity to learn from the shared ideas, knowledge, and skills of each other. They display self-directed learning abilities, self-peer evaluation, reflection, and critical thinking thus, improvement in academic performance is notable. Intensive implementation of peer learning is needed.