Improve Academic Performance of Grade VI Pupils through Reading intervention Using ICT

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The use of the internet, Facebook, cellular phones, iPad and materials with technological advances during their leisure time was very evident nowadays and greatly affects the academic performance of the pupils. This scenario is very uncontrolled and evident in Pagalangan Elementary School to the twenty-four (24) enrollees in grade VI. In connection with these, the study comes up with the use of ICT in Reading Intervention. To address the said dilemma, this research was done to increase/improve the academic performance of Grade VI pupils in English.

METHODS

This study will use the descriptive survey method to determine the academic performance in English of Grade VI pupils in Pagalangan Elementary School, School Year 2016-2017. The data are gathered from 24 pupils. The type of questionnaire design for Grade VI pupils are reading comprehension, vocabulary development and sequencing events with three (3) rating scale namely better (3), good (2), and poor (1). Both variables use ten (10) item test.

RESULTS

After the implementation of the reading intervention using ICT, the researcher gets the result and it shows that 42 percent of the pupils that fall under the POOR category decrease to 17 percent. There is a significant difference in the level of academic performance of Grade VI pupils before and after the reading intervention using ICT.

DISCUSSIONS

The result shows that the use of different online activities during reading intervention using ICT improved the academic performance of Grade VI pupils. The pupils are now interested in reading and in doing their assignments, projects, and researches using ICT.