Effectiveness of Information and Communication Technology in the academic performance in science of G10 Open high School students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Taytay National High School adopts an open high school program for working students, parents and over aged people who want to finish the Junior high school. the students enrolled in this program are required to attend classes once a week. as science teacher of the students enrolled in this program, the researchers observed that there is a difficulty in coming up with the competencies that result to poor academic performance in science due to the smaller number of days the students under OHSP spent in actual classroom learnings. for this reason, the researcher felt the need to evaluate the effectiveness of using information and communication technology-based instruction in improving the academic performance in the science of G10 under OHSP.

METHODS

Two groups of students were created. The control group who were taught every Friday in school and which does no use ICT and the experimental group who will be taught using ICT-based methods through the online follow-up. Each group was composed of 16-16 students, who were more or less similar in characteristics. Sources of data collection tools that will be utilized in the study include research constructed questionnaire, pretest, and Post-test. Pretest and Post-test were validated and executed. ICT based learning material was developed to sustain the limited face to face encounter of the experimental group.

RESULTS

The results showed that there is a very minimal difference between the Pretest scores of the experimental and control groups of student-respondents in the science of grade 10 students under the OHSP. Majority of the respondents both in experimental and control group falls under non-mastery level. The academic performance of the experimental group in the Post-test improves using Information and Communication Technology based instruction in science. The majority of the respondents in the experimental group fall under mastery level and the control group is nearing mastery level. It is very evident that the Information and communication-based instruction is an effective aid to improve the academic performance of students enrolled in an open high school program.

DISCUSSIONS

The results suggest that the use of information and communication technology-based instruction is effective in improving the academic performance of student-respondents in science in grade 10 under an open high school program. it is recommended that teachers should use information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching students under the open high school program.