A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PRE TEST AND POST TEST RESULT IN SCIENCE III AMONG THE THIRD YEAR

STUDENTS OF PIGDAULAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

An Action Research Presented to

EMMA C. ULBIS SSHT-IV

Submitted by: MARY ANN T. SEPAT

Pigdaulan National High School Pigdaulan, Butuan City

I. Introduction
Topics in chemistry education might include understanding how students learn chemistry, how best to teach chemistry, and how to improve learning outcomes by changing teaching methods and appropriate training of chemistry instructors, within many modes, including classroom lecture, demonstrations, and laboratory activities. There is a constant need to update the skills of teachers engaged in teaching chemistry, and so chemistry education speaks to this need. The higher educational authorities require the teachers to focus on major subjects (English, Math and Science).This is done to acquire higher competencies on these subjects and based on Basic

Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA). Mastery on the three major subjects is needed for the learners to face global competitiveness. On the first week of June 2010, Pre test has been given to the students and took the Post test on the third week of March 2011. This test measures the skills developed by the students and assess the competencies learned. Its objectives are to determine the efficiency of teachers, effectiveness of their methods, their strengths, weaknesses and needs. The researcher conducted this study to make a comparison of the test result in pre test and post test in Science III among the third year students.

II. Statement of the Problem 1. What is the mean percentage score (MPS) of the 30 selected third year students in pre test and post test result in Science subject? 2. Is there a significant difference between the pre test and post test result in Science subject among the 30 selected third year students?

III. Statement of Hypothesis There is no significant difference between the pre test and post test result in Science subject among the 30 selected third year students.

IV. Presentation of Data

There are 70 third year students in Pigdaulan National High School. The researcher gathered the test result of the pre test and post test from the 30 selected third year students.

Name of Students

Pre Test Raw Score Equivalent

42 50 34 32 40 42 36 50 34 38 38 34 36 44 30 32 34 38 38 48 40 36 38 40 42 34 32 36 36 34

Post Test Raw Score

35 41 36 36 38 40 38 45 37 39 38 40 38 42 40 38 39 44 37 43 44 41 39 42 45 41 38 43 39 37

Equivalent
70 82 72 72 76 80 76 90 74 78 76 80 76 84 80 76 78 88 74 86 88 82 78 84 90 82 76 86 78 74

Abades,Irene Abello,Jayson Aray,Daryl Balcos,Rhea Boligor,Aljordan Buena,Ailyn Diola,Anabelle Fabiaa,Leonis Galvan, Lorefred Genita,Aisa Guerzon,Venus Hidalgo,Joana Trixia Hidalgo,Margie Maur,Lea Nalogon,Julie Naranjo,Jeffrey Naranjo,Rosielyn Parlonga,Felipe Poques,Manilyn Pugoy,Queenie Rizalido,Darling Jay Samoya,Kinth Sanchez,Regina Saraum,Jojie Sastre,Joana Marie Solania,Rosemarie Sosmea,Arnulfo Torayno,Claudine Valencia,Samuel Yusores,Jayhan

21 25 17 16 20 21 18 25 17 19 19 17 18 22 15 16 17 19 19 24 20 18 19 20 21 17 16 18 18 17

V. Data Interpretation and Analysis

The table presents the comparison and analysis of the test result in Pre test and Post test in Science subject among the 30 selected students. Total No. of Students Description Test Result Pre Test Post Test Difference in % between Pre test and Post test

30

Heterogeneous

The table showed that the sample selected from the 70 third year students was a heterogeneous group. The mean percentage score(MPS) of the

VI. Conclusion Based from the result on the analysis of data, the 30 students got a higher level of performance in Post test compared to their Pre test.

VII. Recommendations From the findings, the following remedial measures must be given importance to improve the competencies and skills in Science III. 1. Strategies presented in class must be used appropriately to meet the skills and abilities of students. 2. Improved visual aids and more hands on activities must be used for the students to be motivated to learn. 3. Rigid review of the topics in PSSLC should be conducted through written test and
graded recitation.

VIII. Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry_education
http://www.fwwpp.org/BESRA_files/BESRA.doc.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PRE TEST AND POST TEST RESULT IN SCIENCE I-IV AMONG ALL THE YEAR LEVEL OF PIGDAULAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

An Action Research Presented to

EMMA C. ULBIS SSHT-IV

Submitted by: MARY ANN T. SEPAT

Pigdaulan National High School Pigdaulan, Butuan City

I. Introduction Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology etc. are new and relatively unfamiliar informational fields, learners have to be more active, exploratory and self-regulated during the comprehension-building process(Tergan, 1997).These skills need to be taught and monitored as part of the instructional process. The higher educational authorities require the teachers to focus on major subjects (English, Math and Science).This is done to acquire higher major competencies subjects is on these for subjects the and based to on Basic global Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA) . Mastery on the three needed learners face competitiveness. On the first week of June 2010, Pre test has been given to the students and took the Post test on the third week of March 2011. This test measures the skills developed by the students and assess the competencies learned. Its objectives are to determine the efficiency of teachers, effectiveness of their methods, their strengths, weaknesses and needs. The researcher conducted this study to make a comparison of the test result in pre test and post test in Science I-IV among all the year level of students of Pigdaulan National High School II. Statement of the Problem 1. What is the mean percentage score (MPS) of all the year level of students in pre test and post test result in Science subjects? 2. Is there a significant difference between the pre test and post test result in Science subjects among all the year level of students in Pigdaulan National High School?

III. Statement of Hypothesis There is no significant difference between the pre test and post test result in Science subject among all the year level of the students of Pigdaulan National High School.

IV. Data Interpretation and Analysis The table presents the comparison and analysis of the MPS result in Pre test and Post test in Science subjects among all the year level students in Pigdaulan National High School.

Total No. of Students

Description

MPS Result Pre Test Post Test 65.1 66 66.9 65.2

1st year level100 2nd year level-75 3rd year level- 65 4th year level- 65

Heterogeneous Heterogeneous Heterogeneous Heterogeneous

63.4 65.2 63.60 64.8

VI. Conclusion Based from the result on the analysis of data, the sample students got a higher level of performance in Post test compared to their Pre test.

VII. Recommendations From the findings, the following remedial measures must be given importance to improve the competencies and skills in Science subjects. 1. Strategies presented in class must be used appropriately to meet the skills and abilities of students. 2. Improved visual aids and more hands on activities must be used for the students to be motivated to learn. 3. Rigid review of the topics in PSSLC should be conducted through written test and graded recitation. VIII. Bibliography http://www.fwwpp.org/BESRA_files/BESRA.doc . http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/coffs00/papers/rowa n_hollingworth.pdf