Effectivenessof the Intervention Strategies for Beginning Level of Proficiency, Grade 8 Students in Mathematics of Selected Public Secondary School of Cabuyao District

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Mathematics plays an important role to produce productive and globally competitive citizen. We cannot deny that most of the students have negative perception about mathematics despite of the efforts made by the school and the teachers in making mathematics an enjoyable subject. Now the problem comes with high dropout rates, high number of repeaters, low passing grades and lack of language and computational skills. These problems resulted to a considerable number of illiterate Filipinos, out of school youths and incompetent graduates. This study focus on the effectiveness of intervention strategies on Grade 8 students with beginning level of proficiency in Mathematics from selected public secondary school of Cabuyao district.

METHODS

The population of the study was composed of all Grade 8 students with beginning level of proficiency in Mathematics from selected public secondary School of Cabuyao district. A documentary analysis design was employed by the researcher using weighted mean, and t-test as statistical treatments in order to answer the stated questions in the study.

RESULTS

The study arrived at the following findings: (1) In terms of students' profile, most of the respondents are 13 years old. There were 170 male and 77 female with the total of 247 respondents. (2) In terms of the respondents' grade in first quarter and second quarter, the mean from the first quarter grade was 72.64 while the mean from the second quarter grade was 76.42. (3) In terms of mean difference between the respondents' first quarter and second quarter grade, it was found out that there is a remarkable increase in the mean performance of Grade 8 students during the second quarter grade which implies the effectiveness of intervention programs attended by the students.

DISCUSSIONS

The data implies that most of the Grade 8 students with Beginning Level of Proficiency are within the age of 13 years old. The data reveals that there were more male Grade 8 students who were not able to reach the standard passing level of proficiency in Mathematics compared to the female students. The common intervention program attended by the students was remedial classes with 86.64% composed of 214 students, followed by peer tutoring with only 10.12% which is composed of 25 students only and modular approach with 3.24% with only 8 students. The result implies that the learning difficulties of students can be remedied using different interventions which primarily lie on the teachers' initiative.