Effectiveness of School Readiness Year End Assessment (SReYA) to Incoming Grade One Pupils of Hinatuan South Central Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Proper care at early age can do much to create and enabling environment that ensures protection and support for more broad based issues such us children's health, nutrition, psycho-social and cognitive development. Some pupils come to school eager to learn and eager to please the teacher. They respond well to simple praise. They work hard and have pride on their work. The teacher must accept these pupils regardless of their attitudes and use the techniques to develop in them the different domains. In this action research, there are twenty identified pupils in kindergarten, to be studied/ observed how effective the School Readiness Year End Assessment as a tool in determining incoming grade one pupils of Hinatuan South Central Elementary School.

METHODS

This research aims to find out the effectiveness of School Readiness Year End Assessment (SReYA) to the 20 identified pupils in Kindergarten of Hinatuan South Central Elementary School, with proper application to improve their knowledge in different domains among kindergarten pupils. The study utilized Pre-Experimental Design One Group. The researcher had conducted pre-test at the start of the school year to identify the respondents’ program. It was administered during the month of August, 2016. On the month of January was the post-test.

RESULTS

The results show that of the 25 items test given to the 20 identified respondents score was only 5.6 with only 22.4%. It signifies that there was a need of interventions to be employed to the identified respondents. After the given interventions, it shows that the average score of the 25 item test that was given to the 15 identified respondents was 213.15 with the percentage of 93%. It implies that there is an increase of level of performance after employing some interventions and proper implementation of School Readiness Year End Assessment (SReYA) to the incoming grade one pupils.

DISCUSSIONS

Teachers are encouraging to utilize the SReYA properly in the assessment of the kindergarten pupils. School Readiness Year End Assessment (SReYA) is very important because most of the children enhanced their knowledge in different domains. Early Child Care is basic to a child before he/she enters in the field of formal education. This implies that well-cared children are really ready, excited and interested to enter school. Based on the findings of the study, School Readiness Year End Assessment (SReYA) is highly recommended to be used as a tool to incoming Grade 1 pupils.