Needs Assessment of Grade 9 and Grade 10 High School Students on Computer Technology

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Having an outlook on what to teach and how to come upon the delivery is one task that a teacher must perform to ensure understanding. A classroom is a place where intellectual congress happens, the researcher decided to conduct a study which will gather needs required to help in teaching topics related to computers. Thus, the use for needs assessment is elected by the researcher to have an in-depth understanding of the study at hand.

METHODS

Once a teacher enters the workforce thus begins one's vocation. Teaching as a vocation needs to be enriched every once in a while, thus lead the researcher to search for a way to provide better technology transfer to students, thus, the use of Needs' Assessment. The researcher made use of the survey questionnaire from surveymonkey.com, The researcher has delimited the study to her students' self-assessment at Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, Laboratory High School Grade 9 and Grade 10 in her Technology and Home Economics (Computer).

RESULTS

In order to find out, the needs of her student-respondents, the profile of the respondents are collected tabulated and computed. The computed results have shown the correlation coefficient to be 0.66, which is interpreted as a high positive correlation. It lead to mean that the relationship of the needs' assessment of student-respondent and their profile; which are, the length of time using computers; overall skills; needs passably addressed in understanding of hardware, software and computer-related skills, while the average weighted mean for needs' of Grade 9 high school students is 2.40 and the Grade 10 high school students is 2.28, is then interpreted as, moderately adequate.

DISCUSSIONS

The Needs Educational Technologies of Grade 9 and Grade 10 students taking technology and Home Economics for Grade 9 and Grade 10 are interested in learning Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Social Networking respectively, and relationship between the needs on hardware, software, computer-related skills; gender; over-all skills; length of time in using computers; is interpreted as high positive correlation, Furthermore, Basic to Advanced Laboratory exercises as well as applying suggested topics to the researchers' syllabus should be used to enhance and to ensure the needs are greatly addressed to the student-respondents, and Further evaluation should be applied on future studies such as measuring the proficiency of student-respondents.