Contextualized Worktext in Contemporary Issues for Grade 10 Students
Julie Ann Lauro
Discipline: Education
Abstract:
The study focused on the development of contextualized worktext in contemporary issues for Grade
10 students at Lagundi- CCL National High School during the School Year 2019-2020. The
researcher employed descriptive-developmental and experimental methods utilizing twenty-four (24)
teacher-respondents who evaluated the developed learning materials and forty-four (44) students. The
findings showed that the acceptability of the developed contextualized worktext was Strongly
Acceptable. In addition, the level of performance of the student-respondents before the exposure to
the developed materials was Fairly Satisfactory while after exposure majority of them fell in Very
Satisfactory. Furthermore, there was a significant difference in the level of performance of the
students as revealed in their pre-test and post-test results. Meanwhile, the evaluators suggested that
the worktext shall be arranged from simple to complex topics and other technical aspects shall be
checked to further improve the contextualized worktext in Araling Panlipunan 10.
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