Effect of the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP)on the Performance Level of Grade VI Pupils in Filipino

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Health and nutrition are one of the factors affecting the academic performance level of learners. The implementation of the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) is the government's national priority based on DO 51, s. 2016. It addresses to improve the undernutrition problem and short-term hunger of the target beneficiaries who are under severely wasted and wasted from kinder to grade VI in the elementary level based on nutritional status baseline report. It also aims to improve school attendance and to reduce drop out in schools, and nutritional values and behavior.

Based on the consolidated Baseline Nutritional Status Report, it was noted that out of 307 enrollees in Cobo Elementary School, six (6) of them were severely wasted and nineteen (19) were wasted.

The feeding-teacher tried to find out the effect of SBFP on the academic performance of the nine (9) beneficiaries from Grade VI of Cobo Elementary School in Filipino. Two of them were severely wasted and seven were wasted.

METHODS

This study used descriptive survey research to gather the data needed in answering the problems identified by analyzing and discussing the result. It was a fact-finding with adequate interpretation. The descriptive method was something more and beyond just data-gathering; the latter was not reflective thinking nor research. The true meaning of the data collected has been reported from the point of view of the objectives and the basic assumption of the project underway. This follows logically after careful classification of data. Data must be subjected to the thinking process in terms of ordered reasoning (Aquino, 1974). The responses have been recorded, tabulated, computed, and statistically treated.

RESULTS

Based on the findings in the academic performance in Filipino VI there was 30.9% increased after the implementation of SBFP. This means that there was a significant difference in the pre-test and post-test results. To sum up, the performance level was increasing after the implementation of SBFP. It implies that the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) was effective in improving the academic performance of Grade VI pupils in Filipino.

DISCUSSIONS

The researchers suggested that the implementation should be sustained not only for the wasted and severely wasted pupils but for all the school children enrolled from kindergarten to grade six of the school where malnutrition is apparent.