Effectiveness Of Technology-Based Science SelfLearning Kit (TBSSLK) to the Performance of The Grade 9 Students in Science and Technology

AUTHOR(S)

EDDIEBOY GALAPON

ABSTRACT

— — This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the Technology Based selflearning kit to the performance of the Grade 9 students in Science and Technology. The findings of the study were the bases for a Proposed enhancement Plan. The study utilized random Sampling in identifying the respondents of the study. The test of difference between the scores in the pretest and post-test of Grade 9 in Science and Technology for both in the 2 groups. Table 3 presents the test difference between the scores in the pre-test and post-test of Grade 9 learners in Science and technology in two groups. It was revealed on the table that the two groups differs on the results where Grade 9 Section A have the pretest performance or results which is equal to 11.22 which is usually can be gleaned that there is a big difference between the 2 pretest results as well as the posttest with the 36.64 which is much higher compared to the pretest which resulted to the computed t value which is equal to 1.314 and found out that it was higher than the critical t value of 0.931 so the hypothesis which states that there is no significant difference between the pretest and posttest performance before and after the integration or utilization of the learning was rejected. In Section B having the pretest performance or results which is equal to 12.81 which is usually can be gleaned that that there are big difference between the 2 pretest results as well as the posttest with the 32.69 which is much higher compared to the pretest which resulted to the computed t value which is equal to 1.144 and found out that it was higher than the critical t value of 0.931 so the hypothesis which states that there is no significant difference between the pretest and posttest performance before and after the integration or utilization of the learning was rejected. This means that there is a significant difference between the scores in the pre-test and post-test. This implies that with the use of the technology-based science learning kit by the learners, they were able to understand the concepts, attainment of the objective is visible which helps improve the performance of the Grade 9 students during the delivery of the lessons. Specially today that majority of our learners really exposed to the different multimedia platforms which means all their learning or majority of their learnings are just surrounded with all those things that they have observed in the internet or they are more motivated of when they are utilizing the technology in learning the different lessons. Table 4 presents the test of difference between the scores in the posttests of Grade 9 learners in Science and Technology in Two Groups. It is stated above the test scores of Section A having the posttest performance which is 36.64 is almost equal to the results of that in Section B having the equivalent posttest performance of 32.69 which can be notified in a glance that the difference between the 2 is almost or nearly negligible that resulted to a computed t value which is equal to 0.910 and found out also that it is lesser than the critical t value I of 1.033 so the hypothesis which states that there is no significant difference between the posttest performance of the 2 groups after the integration of the learning kit is accepted and the decision is failed to reject the hypothesis or interpreted as not significant. The results in table 4 regarding the posttest performance and its difference between the 2 groups of the grade 9 learners in learning the different learning competencies in Science and technology is quite effective, why? Because the learners for both of the groups are learning on the same directions in other words, when the time that the learners are really exposing to the different learning materials which were connected to the self-learning kit, all of them gained excellent or very good performance as shown in the pretest and posttest results for both of the 2 groups. Moreover, the utilization of the learning kit on the delivery of the different learning competencies are significantly effective because it really helps the learners to learn better compared to the traditional way of delivering the lessons. Furthermore, creating new strategies in dealing with the teaching and learning process specially to the challenging subject which is science, it is really important to create new opportunities to the learners in order for them to be motivated and eager to learn new things than to those strategies that could make them dull and no enough eagerness to learn things on their own. Keywords — Effectiveness, Technology-Based Self-Learning Kit, Performance, Grade 9 Pupils, Science and Technology