Watching Educational Video among Grade VI Pupils in Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health of Jacobo Zobel Elementary School: its Impact to Academic Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Watching educational videos is one way of refreshing the mind and the body in order to think logically, analytically and comprehensively. Furthermore, watching video is definitely one of the favorite source of entertainment for the adolescents and young adults as well or even in all genre for today's generation, Youngsters enjoy watching because these videos serve as distraction to the current problem they are facing and good source of amusement as well as positive influence on their mood which play fundamental role in the development of teenagers' self and group identity and gives inspiration to define social and cultural boundaries.

METHODS

The use of the descriptive method of research as it was aimed at ascertaining the impact of watching videos on academic performance. This Strategy reported in the form of frequencies, averages, and percentages. The study focused on the two variables such as watching videos and academic performance. The two variables are correlated to investigate their impact descriptively and quantitatively in a form of convenience sampling. Selection of the respondents was done through teachers' recommendation; each section contains 25 pupils subject for study. There are five Grade VI teachers and 125 pupils were involved.

RESULTS

Highest frequency percentage of the respondents according to age was in the range of 11 with a total of 69 or 55% in which the majority are female ranging frequency 53.60% with Educational Attainment of parents of 44 high school graduates. The type of video that the pupils spend with were Tutorial Video with 46% serve as rank 1, Training obtained 25%, Presentation and Lecture Capture having 13%, Micro video with 10%, Screencast with 2%, Welcome video got 2% which the same as to Reflective Video. The highest range of hours watching an instructional video of the pupils consist of 1 hour with total freq. of 46 or 37%.

DISCUSSIONS

The academic performance of pupils was computed with GWA of 82.54 revealed as good performance. The pupils had moderate effective with regards to watching a video as to their academic performances in terms of classroom task activity, oral and written participation. The Instructional Video may be proposed serving as a teaching strategy that tackles the three educational domains which enliven the interest of the learners during the class scenario. With the use of evident findings, it may be proposed for the convenient ways and means of the transitions of the teaching-learning process in the different subject matter especially the MAPEH.