Type of Study

This study will employ a true experimental design, specifically a two-group pre-test, posttest
study design.

Participants

The participants in this study will be ___ (indicate number) ___ (indicate grade / year level)
pupils / students in _______________ (indicate name of school), ___ (indicate number) of which were
randomly assigned to the experimental group and ____ (indicate number) to the control group.

The experimental group will be ... (describe the intervention to be used – how will the
intervention be done? for how long? etc) while the control group will be taught using the traditional
method of teaching.

Data Collection

Initially, a pretest will be done to determine the baseline level of the study participants on the
________ (dependent variable). The pretest scores of the participants from the control and
experimental groups will then be compared using appropriate statistical procedures to ensure baseline
comparability.

The intervention will then be applied to the experimental group while the control group will be
taught using the usual method of teaching. After _____ (how long the intervention will be done), a
posttest will be conducted.

Instruments

For the pretest and posttest, a (choose one from the following: ) teacher-made test /
standardized test from the DepEd Division / Regional / National Office will be used (Appendix D).

Data Analysis

The pretest scores (or grades from previous grading periods) of the randomly selected control
and experimental groups will be compared using independent t test (if the data are normally
distributed) or Mann Whitney test (if the data are not normally distributed). Moreover, if the pretest
scores are normally distributed, a variance ratio test will be performed to determine whether t test for
groups with equal or unequal variance will be used.
 If the pretest scores of the two randomly selected groups turn out to be significantly different,
another group of pupils/students will have to be selected and the pretest scores will again be compared.
The final control and experimental groups should be comparable at baseline in terms of ____ (the
dependent variable).

After the intervention, the posttest scores will also be compared following the same procedures
mentioned for the pretest scores.

P-values less than 0.05 will be considered statistically significant. Statistical computations will be
performed using Stata.