A study of the status of Science teaching in the intermediate grades in the district of Roxas City

Abstract

For sometime now the Philippines has been beset by the problems of insufficiency and of economic dependence on other countries. We need scientific manpower to make us self-sufficient in our staple food, rice, and to make full use of our rich natural resources in order to become economically stable. The school, being the agency that can give us the much needed scientific manpower, must have a good science program. To improve the science program there is a need to reassess the science teaching in order to know its strengths and weaknesses. The researcher, in her desire to help solve the problem, conducted a study to ascertain the effectiveness of the science teaching in the intermediate grades in the District of Roxas City for the school year 1968-1969. The study was conducted in the twenty-one out of the twenty-seven elementary schools in the said district with 745 Grade V pupils and 595 Grade VI pupils under forty-five science teachers. The methods used in the study were questionnaire, checklist, ocular survey, and interview. The mean, the S.D., SEM percentage of error, chi square and coefficient of reliability were the statistical tools used.