Using Real Object During Engagement in Teaching Science: its Effectiveness to Pupils Achievement of Grade 5 in Parklane Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The aim of the current study is to address the need for improving Teachers’ performance in Teaching Science to Grade 5 pupils and to assume new roles and responsibilities in a decentralized system. The study focuses on students' performance, the capacity to provide the best instructional strategies to pupils through real object presentation. Teachers are facing the challenges of working within a recently decentralized educational system while learning to become a good teacher through idealistic presentation.

METHODS

This action research utilized the effectiveness of using real objects since its main purpose was to determine the effectiveness of using real objects and its possible effect to MEAN /SD/ MPS on the achievement of pupils for the entire Third Quarter lessons. The same pupils from different sections were the respondents. The group was taught using pictures only with similar activities while the next month, the group was taught using real objects with the same activities. Five regular sections with selected students were included in the study out of the Grade 5 sections that the school had.

RESULTS

The following are the findings of this research. During Pre-test the mean scores of both groups using pictures (MEAN= 4.72, SD= 2.62) and the group using real objects (Mean= 6.32, SD= 2.82), the two groups do not significantly differ based on the results which is less than the tabular of 1.9845at 98 Df. During Post-test the Mean = 4.92 and SD = 2.64 using pictures while in using real objects, the MEAN= 8.16 and SD = 3. The two groups significantly differ which prefer the use of Real Objects in which the t-ratio is greater than the value of 1.9845 at 0.05 level of significance using 98 degree of freedom.

DISCUSSIONS

1. During the Pre-test of the respondents from the two groups, using picture and using real objects, do not differ significantly. The Posttest revealed that the two groups significantly differ resulting to high MPS and SD for the group using real object.No significant difference in Pre Test and Post Test using pictures in teaching science, but significant difference is clear and favor to group using real object.