Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teaching strategies are a combination of instructional methods, learning activities, and

materials that actively engage students and appropriately reflect both learning goals and
students' developmental needs.

The fundamental operations and fractions are important in carrying out the basic
principle of measuring and calculating. If these skills are not learned by the students, other
competencies will be affected because miscalculation or wrong measurement will lead to poor
outputs. It becomes a challenge to TLE teachers since teaching students to apply basic
mathematical operations is another mountain to climb. Hence, as classroom teachers are
innovative and natural strategists, various approaches to improving students' performance are
explored. In this inquiry, grade 7 TLE teachers of Sta. Catalina National High School will utilize
the contextualized remediation materials through Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) to
improve the mensuration and calculation skills of the grade 7 students.

METHODS

A quasi-experimental design was used to determine if the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies

(PALS) is effective in improving the academic performance of the Grade 7 students during the
third grading period in Grade 7 TLE. Descriptive and quantitative analysis were used in the
study, which primarily focused on identifying the scores of students. The significant difference
between these scores during the pre-post-test in the third grading period was identified.

RESULTS

The students in both control and experimental groups have the same performance in their
pre-test. Students in the experimental group performed better than the students in the control
group based on their post-test results. Students under Project-WELLCAM performed
significantly better and had higher scores in the post-test compared to those not under the
project.
DISCUSSIONS

The result of the study helped teachers to craft instructional material and utilized teaching
strategies that were contextualized in nature to address the least mastered competencies of
students in TLE 7. It was proven effective that with the help of the contextualized
supplementary materials and the use of Paired-Assisted Learning Strategy, students were able
to compute the basic fundamental operations.