Development of Supplementary Silent Reading Exercises (SRE) to Enhance Comprehension Skills Among Freshmen College Students of Samar State University
Keywords:
Development, Supplementary, Silent Reading, Comprehension SkillsAbstract
The main purpose of this study was to develop supplementary Silent Reading Exercises (SRE), that would enhance comprehension skills of freshmen college students of Samar State University, Catbalogan, Samar, SY 2005-2006. This study utilized the descriptive-developmental research using the pretest/posttest control group design. The study revealed that learning took place with the control group as their posttest was higher than the pretest. The posttest mean scores were higher than the pretest. The pretest mean score was 22.48 and the posttest was 37.24. Using the t-test for independent samples, the computed t-value was very much higher than the tabular t-value. The mean scores of the pretest implies that the two groups had the same entry behavior. However, although one of the conclusions derived from the study is that the use of supplementary materials is just as effective as the lecture-discussion method, the supplementary instruction has the following advantages. The teachers exert minimum efforts in teaching with the use of the supplementary materials. Here, learning is more of a student-activity rather than a teacher-activity. The students learn at their own pace. They do not need to cope up with the pace of the class in learning the lessons. Their progress depends on their own and they learn at their own time. It has a higher standard when it comes to performance because the students’ performance is not evaluated against the accomplishment of his classmates but against the standard set forth by the supplementary materials. It is very personalized or individualized instruction catered to the needs of the students. It can accommodate more students. Because of the improved performance of the experimental group, it can be inferred that the developed supplementary materials were appropriate for the target group.
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