Enhancing Students' Performance in English 10 through SBM Project 555

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This research primarily aims to improve the performance of the Grade 10 students in their English subject through the use of the intervention program ofDepartment of Education Cavite, a classroom-based assessment on the Cognitive-Process Domain (CPD) known as SBM Project 555. The said program specifically targets to improve the achievement level of Grade 10 students in the NAT (National Achievement Test).

METHODS

This content-based paper was adapted from Anderson & Krathwohl (Revised Blooms Taxonomy) Cognitive Process Dimension of HOTS questions. One learning domain was selected to be mastered within a week. The selected section answered one CPD question every session for four days (Mondays to Thursday) and tested the learning domain on the fifth day (Friday) using a 10-item multiple choice type test. The performance of the students in their English subject in the first quarter was used in selecting the participants (Quasi Group) of this project. The target performance of the aforementioned group at the end of the second quarter was at least 75% MPS approaching the mastery level.

RESULTS

The data gathered were analyzed and compared using mean, standard deviation, mean percentage score and t-test. The pretest and posttest results of the experimental groups were found significant and to strengthen this result, the second quarterly examination was also used to justify the significance of the study.

DISCUSSIONS

This study was limited only to those groups/sections with the lowest LOA (Learning outcome Assessment) results in the English subject wherein the groups MPS (Mean Percentage Score) served as the basis for their ranking. The effectiveness of the test was basically determined by analyzing the pattern of test scores from several tests; one CPD question per day and one 10 -item multiple choice type test per week.