Project CAVITEX (Continuous Academic Achievement through Vigorous Reading towards Excellence)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

CIP Project CAVITEX was conducted to resolve the problem in reading comprehension of students, for it greatly affected the results of NAT and quarterly examination across all learning areas, especially in English. This aims also determine the appropriate reading process or strategies be executed by reading teachers and the material to be utilized in order to get a favorable performance among the reading clients. This program used an experimental approach reading clients who were under frustration level were carefully selected through the use of PHIL-IRI Reading Assessment. They were grouped in one (1) section namely Grade 7 Faith. At present to sustain the needs for the improvement of reading intervention, another program was created for the Grade 7 students.

METHODS

The reading process of the teacher was conducted by the CIP team which they found out that the problem arose from the result of the evaluation. Through this, a modified reading process was formulated and the voice of the customers was gathered as well to devise a reading material that will be effective and suitable to the needs and the interests of the clients.

RESULTS

The pilot testing of pre-test and post-test results of Project CAVITEX manifests a consistent increase in the index of mastery. On the first selection, they were a 10% increase on the post-test, 13% second selection, 10% third and 19% on the fourth and 6% on the fifth selection.

DISCUSSIONS

After two weeks of pilot testing, the improvement from the reading comprehension of the clients was much higher than that of the previous utilized reading process and assessment. It is evident that Project CAVITEX successfully achieved its goal of attaining at least a 3% increase in the reading comprehension of Grade 7 Faith through ICT based reading materials. However, based on the index of mastery, it was proven it was just a slight increase in post-test scores of the students in the five-reading selection using the future state of the reading process. This shows that there will be a further study on reading comprehension.