The Effects of Courseware Application in the Mathematics Performance of Grade Seven Learners of Integrated School of Lawa

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Learning mathematics requires a lot of time, understanding, practice and persistence as a result students become fed up and uninterested. As a consequence, most of the students exhibit poor performance in the subject. Thus, many educators strive to find remedies to the continuous declining of student's performance in mathematics. In order to cram up the learning gaps, the K to 12 Basic Education Program crafts various forms of interventions that were presented and utilize by the least learned students. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) tailored an interactive intervention material called the Courseware. The said application caters both math and science subject for all grade levels in junior high school. This application serves as a support tool to improve learning, retention, participation, and understanding of the learners.

METHODS

The true experimental method was employed to acquire reliable information on the effects of utilizing the courseware application in their mathematics performance. To determine its effect, the Solomon-four group design was used. To treat the potential inconsistency, a pair should be equal in some conditions like their pretest scores, abstract reasoning level, age, and sex. Creating a pair that is almost equal. In the course of identifying the participants, the researcher was able to gather 25 pairs in the four sections.

RESULTS

The group who were taught using Courseware performed better in the formative test, quarterly test and post-test than those students from the comparison group. The result also showed that in the comparison group, students who were given pre-test performed better. On the contrary, in the experimental group, students who were not given pre-test performed better in the post-test. Overall, the groups taught with the Courseware performed better.

DISCUSSIONS

The result validates that as teachers we should always look for an appropriate strategy to use and apply that is relevant not only to the competencies but would cater to students' diverse learning styles. In order to provide other means of teaching and learning the inclusion of the needs and skills of the 21st-century learners in the lessons of the teachers may be considered. Learners nowadays learn differently we must not stop and be comfortable on what we already know. With so many materials that are already available in the internet the we must expend the use of it to provide a quality and expedient teaching.