Performance of Senior High School Students in Spiral Progression Approach of the K to 12 Science Curriculum

Myrniel Gal; Vivian Moya

Authors

Myrniel Gal Samar State University
Vivian Moya Samar State University

Keywords:

Performance, Senior High School, Students, Spiral Progression, K to 12, Curriculum, Science Subject

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the level of performance under spiral progression approach in the K to 12 Science Curriculum to the Grade 12 senior high school students of Ramon T. Diaz National High School, school year 2017-2018. This study utilized qualitative and quantitative descriptive research, to know the level of performance of senior high school students in terms of developing scientific understanding and acquiring science process skills and their experiences under variates of student-respondents. In the level of science process skills, the student-respondents have a “very high” level of observation skills as evidenced by the grand mean of 3.54 with standard deviation of 0.49. This indicates that under the spiral progression approach the student-respondents’ are observant in identifying changes in science-related topics. Overall, the student-respondents have high level scientific understanding based on the scores from the multiple choice test, indicating that students have better understanding of the content of the new design curriculum in science. As a whole, student-respondents’ rated “high” on the level of science process skills acquired by the respondents, that only means that varied activities in the science curriculum of the K to 12 program are effective. Teachers’ must be sent to training, seminars, workshops and all about the new approach being used in the science curriculum for them to be equipped with the necessary knowledge in teaching their students.

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