Paiskaran: Showcasing San Pascual Senior High School 1's Culminating Activity

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The attainment of the DepEd goals is guided by deliberated competencies and subjects to be offered in Senior High School. Moreover, culminating activity became an essential part of the program as a platform for providing experiential learning to every student. This study determined the level of student's awareness of Paiskaran. In the attempt of enhancing the involvement of the students of the school's Culminating Activity, the researchers have to gauge the level of awareness of every student in various aspects of the Paiskaran.

METHODS

The combination of Quantitative and Qualitative data collection is conducted for this study. The researchers used Survey-Questionnaires to assess the level of awareness of the Grade 12 students. In the same way, the tool also used for part of it was qualitative in nature for it required a subjective response from students. This is to ensure that the study will concede on the student's personal insights and suggestions on how to improve the Paiskaran-Culminating activity.

RESULTS

Through the survey-questionnaire, respondents on some aspects stated "fully aware". On the other hand, the researchers found gaps when most of the respondents chose "moderately awareness" among the levels. On the most basic particulars of the survey questionnaire, the researchers were able to gauge that the Grade 12 students are fully aware of the Culminating Activity called Paiskaran. Also, full awareness is reflected in aspects like skills utilization and team effort are needed in this action research. However, most aspects indicated "moderately awareness" with the mean of 3.38 see Table 1.1 for the weighted mean for each facet.

DISCUSSIONS

Using the mixed-method approach, most aspects indicated "moderately awareness" specifying that the level of awareness of the students was connected with the components such as the concept of Paiskaran, its influence on their academic progress and how it creates linkages among stakeholders. The research also determined the advantages and disadvantages of the Paiskaran so that its strength will be enhanced further, and its weaknesses are converted positively. The results acclaim the needs to increase awareness through pre deliberation activities in consideration with the students' point of view since they play the most significant role in the Paiskaran. In this endeavor, the researchers visualize an improved version of Paiskaran on the years ahead, the involvement of students are highly observed and making the Culminating Activity reaches its "Version 2.0".