Effectiveness of Home-Remediation Activity to The Academic Performance of Grade 1 Pupils in English

AUTHOR(S)

Jesalome S. Rahman

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Home Remediation Activity to the Performance of the Grade 1 pupils in English subject. The findings of the study served as a basis of a proposed Enhancement plan. This study used the quasi-experimental method of research design to evaluate the performance of Grade 1 learners in reading through the use of Home Remediation Activity to the academic performance of the Grade 1 pupils in English based on the pretest and posttest scores. Table 3 presents the test of difference between the scores in the pretest and posttest of the Grade 1 pupils in Reading. In this table, it creates comparison between the test scores gained by the Grade 1 learners before and after the integration of the HomeRemediation activities given by the teachers to the learners in the delivery of the most essential learning competencies in reading for the 3rd grading period. Table 3 showcased the effect of each learner’s performance before and after the utilization of the aforementioned strategy or intervention in order to fill in the gap based on the results of the pretest which resulted to the good level of performance before the learners experience the new strategies in which this time they will be experiencing home-remediation activities. Based on the results in table 3, the pretest performance is equal to 10.66 while on the posttest performance is equal to 17.00. The results given, it was resulted the computed T value which is equal to 1.96 is greater than the critical t value of 0.141 and the hypothesis which states that there is no significant difference between the pretest and posttest performance of the Grade 1 pupils in Reading before and after the integration of Home-remediation activities is rejected.
The result on the assessment of the significant difference of the Grade 1 pupils on testing the reading skills of the learners in terms of their reading performance is significantly amazing considering the difference of the test scores of the learners before and after the integration. It is further explains that through the integration of the Home remediation activities it will boost the learners in improving their word recognition skills as well as comprehension and writing skills. This is because the teachers together with the parents and or guardians are actively engage with each other to help the learners improve their reading performances. Lastly, the results are positively gained by the learners because the home remediation activities are essential strategy in improving the skills of the learners both in reading and writing skills.