The Effect of Integrated Approach on Students' Performance in Freshmen Mathematics
Keywords:
Integrated Approach, Performance, Freshmen, MathematicsAbstract
This study attempted to determine the effect of integrated approach on students’ performance in freshmen Mathematics at Samar Regional School of Fisheries. In this study, the researcher used the experimental method of research using the pre-test and post-test control group design. This was employed on the 44 first year high school students of Samar Regional School of Fisheries through purposive sampling, matching their first grading grade in Mathematics. The samples were divided into two groups – 22 students for the experimental group and another 22 students for the control group. Most of the subjects of the study were 13 years of age. In the experimental group, the average rating in the entrance examination result was 68.64, 5 students got a rating lower than the average grade, 8 students were within the range of the mean, and 9 students obtained a score higher than it. The experimental and control groups had more or less the same level of entry behaviour on the basis of their sex, age, entrance examination results, first grading grades in Mathematics I and pre-test mean scores. This connotes that the experiment was free from bias in terms of the results arrived at. The utilization of integrated methods can be tried out as an alternative strategy in teaching other secondary mathematics courses. An experimental study to determine the effect of integrated methods on academic performance of students in other disciplines will be conducted.
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