Increase the Performance Level of Grade 7 Students in Araling Panlipunan through Enhanced Assessment Process

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study was implemented to determine the effect of Project IPEA in the performance of Grade 7 students in Araling Panlipunan of Bula National High School, Bula, Camarines Sur this school year 2017-2018. Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:

1) What are the performance levels of 445 Grade 7 students in Araling Panlipunan?

2) What are the acceptability levels of the proposed interventions and innovations?

3) What are the effects of proposed interventions and innovations in the performance level of students in Araling Panlipunan?

In order to extrapolate the root cause of the low performance of students in Araling Panlipunan, these questions were answered by applying the ASSESS, ANALYZE and ACT stages. The voices of students were used as baseline for different interventions created.

METHODS

This study employed the descriptive method of research in discussing the responses to the questions and it adopted purposive sampling techniques to select 445 Grade 7 students-this grade level has the lowest mean performance level among 4 grade levels considered.

RESULTS

Among the five (5) interventions given, the Rewards and Incentives topped as the highly accepted intervention for students, with 3.64 acceptability level, followed by Class Norms,and AP Success Corner, with 3.49 and 3.36 acceptability ratings, respectively. Sapphire and Jade Class Sections showed the highest increase in performance rating, by 4.76. The project saw a significant increase in grade level performance of 3.32 points, from a baseline of 83.01 to 86.22.

DISCUSSIONS

The following conclusions were deduced: 1) students approaching mastery level must be promoted to either master or advanced Level; 2) innovations implemented were appreciated by students; 3) the use of innovations helped students improve their performance.