Oplan Sagip Mag-Aaral to Increase Students Performance in English 8 in Nurcia Integrated School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Absenteeism of students from school is a perennial problem deeply rooted on different factors such as parents' socioeconomic status, family circumstances and illness that resulted to have lower well-being and lower academic level (Michael Thastum, 2015). To sustain the academic progress of students, they have to cope with their missed lessons but it is difficult to do since they frequently escape classes and plan to stop schooling accordingly. Oplan Sagip Mag-aaral is an intervention initiated to answer the problem of low academic performance of students in English 8 through worksheets that they can bring at home thus increase students' academic performance and participation.

METHODS

A descriptive quantitative research design was used to quantify varying results from the respondents. 20 students of Grade 8 set as the respondents of the study, 16 has completed and passed the summative tests and other outputs conducted for the third quarter of this current school thus the four students who were unable to complete the tasks as respondents of the study. Data were differentiated the time when no intervention was given and the moment when Oplan Sagip Mag-aaral was sustained in the group through remedial and worksheets. Data collected and analyzed through simple average mean and determining the difference between the results gathered.

RESULTS

Among the 20 participants, 7 summative tests were completed but only 16 students who completely took the tests and submitted outputs. It was then found some of the factors that hinder the completion of summative tests and other outputs that greatly affect the academic performance of Grade 8 English students, 4 students undergo the remedial and worksheet initiated by the respondents to help and therefore sustain their performance. After the implementation of the intervention, all students submitted their outputs and compiled the summative tests through worksheets and other quality outputs thereby showing improvement on the students' performance.

DISCUSSIONS

Result conveyed that after the implementation of Oplan Sagip Mag-aaral, the 7 summative tests were done on time by the 4 remaining students of Grade 8.