The Effectiveness of Continuous Improvement Project: Test-Taking Improvement Program Sa Araling Panlipunan (Tipsaap) in Improving the Quarterly Examination Scores of Grade Seven Students of Carmona

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study was set to assess the effectiveness of the continuous improvement (CI) project: Test-taking improvement program as Araling Panlipunan (TIPsaAP) in improving the quarterly examination scores of grade seven students of Carmona National High School for the school year 2017 -2018.

METHODS

It utilized a quantitative descriptive research design using T-test for Dependent Samples and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). There is 115 grade seven student-participants for this study. They are chosen using a non-random purposive sampling. They composed the bottom 20 percent of the test-takers in second quarterly examination in Araling Panlipunan 7: Araling Asyano.

RESULTS

The result of the assessment revealed that by looking at the means, standard deviations (SD), and mean percentage scores (MPS) of the scores of the participants in second, third and fourth quarterly examinations, there is an upward movement on their performance. T-test also revealed that there is a significant change on the scores of the tests of the students between the examination (second quarter) without the benefit of TIPsaAP CI project and the scores on the examinations (third and fourth quarter) after the project was implemented. However, using the One-Way ANOVA, it was found out that there was no significant difference among the scores of the students in the three exams.

DISCUSSIONS

It can be concluded that although the implementation of TIPsaAP had certain effects on the scores of the students in the third and fourth quarterly examinations, it fell short to make a significant impact to say that it is effective in improving the scores of the students in Araling Panlipunan 7.