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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region 02
Division of Quirino
AGLIPAY HIGH SCHOOL
Aglipay, Quirino
November 2019
Sir:
Greetings!
Approved:
An
ACTION RESEARCH
Presented to the
SCHOOLS DIVISION RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Schools Division of Quirino
Cabarroguis
Presented by:
SHERYL JOY P. GALVEZ
Aglipay High School
S.Y. 2018-2019
SHERYL JOY P. GALVEZ
Researcher
Aglipay High School
ABSTRACT
Students have a negative perception in rational numbers which made them bored with the
subject. With this, the researcher proposed an intervention to improve the performance of
the students in Rational functions. The research was conducted in order to test the
grade 11 students in rational functions. The study was carried out using quasi-
High School. There are thirty students in each group wherein the first group will receive
the intervention partners in CRIME worksheets who will serve as the experimental while
the other will not receive the intervention who will serve as the control group. Mean and
Standard Deviation was utilized in identifying the mean score before and after the
employed in comparing the pre-test and post-test performances of the two groups before
and after the implementation of the intervention and Eta2 was used in determining the
Rational Functions. Based from the findings, it was found out that the performance of the
experimental group was significantly different to the performance of the control group.
The finding indicates that the use of Partners in CRIME Worksheets is an effective teaching
and learning strategy and intervention. furthermore, the study recommends create new
With all the sincerity, the author wishes to express her profound gratitude
appreciation to all the persons who in one way or another assisted and contributed much
in the success of this work.
To our Almighty GOD, for giving wisdom to the author and provide her enough strength,
patience and endurance to finish this study.
To Mr. Whilmar M. Villanueva, Division Research Focal Person and to all Division
Research Committee for the encouragement and supervision and assistance he extended
that made the realization to finish this piece of work.
To Mrs. Ernestenita S. Ruiz, School Principal I of Aglipay High School for her unending
support and guidance.
To Mrs. Janette S. Tomas and all my co-workers who always share ideas, encourage
and patiently helping the author for the success of this work.
And all those persons who in one way or another, have contributed to the success
of this work.
The Author
I. Context and Rationale
A good Mathematics education is important to the success of the students. The basic
concepts and skills they acquire in this subject area will be very helpful in whatever field
Generally, most of the students do not relish taking up Mathematics. This may be partly
attributed to their erroneous notion of its irrelevance to daily life and it is difficult for them
to understand the different concepts, principles and rules that make them bore with the
subject. Greater emphasis then should be placed on the need for all faculty members to
everyday experience so that Mathematics will be fun, interesting and useful to have affinity
to life. Thus, further enhance and deeper appreciation of the subject will be acquired by
the students.
rational function. A rational function is a function that is a fraction and has the property
(https://study.com/academy/lesson/rational-function-definition-equation-examples.html)
Dubinsky, Hawks, & Nichols, 1992; Dubinsky & Harel, 1992;Dubinsky, 1991). In this
case, the authors have found that APOS theory may define students’ conceptualizations of
rational functions).
Thus, the MPS result of the Grade 11 students at Aglipay High School in each grading
period is below 75% which does not meet the standard MPS. One of the learning content
with low MPS is Rationals. Regarding this, remediation should be undertaken to improve
the performance of the students. With this, Partners in CRIME Worksheets was introduce
May this research work help everyone to strengthen the mathematical skills and acquire
mastery of the subject matter to improve the performance of the students in the subject
area. Thus, this study will analyze the effect of Partners in CRIME Worksheets on the
One of the lowest MPS in the schools of Quirino particularly at Aglipay High School
is Mathematics. With this, the researcher would like to enhance the ability of the students,
Functions of the Grade 11 students of Aglipay High School. The word CRIME is an
acronym which is an adjective for the respondents which stands Curious Resolver
Investigate, Measure and Evaluate. Partners in CRIME worksheets will be utilized by two
students at a time and they will be partners for the whole duration of the study. Partners
will be assigned by the teacher wherein one partner should be mathematically inclined
while the other partner will be the slow learner in Mathematics. In answering the
worksheets, mathematically inclined students will teach the slow learner for them to
answer the worksheets. Slow learner will be the one to solve and write answers on the
Pre-Test and Post-Test will be conducted before and after the implementation of the
Partners in CRIME Worksheets on the respondents. The researcher will consider two
sections on the implementation of the study wherein one section will make use of
worksheets as a strategy in teaching the lesson while the other section will make use of the
traditional method as a teaching strategy. It is good that the school decided to group the
students heterogeneously. The result of the study will be analyze done after one grading
interest and motivation of the students. The researchers believe that the pedagogy used in
instruction has something to do and great impact with the performance of the students in
the subject. This is a study on the effect of Partners in CRIME Worksheets on the
Specifically, at the end of the study, this research will find answers to the following
questions:
1. What is the mean score before and after the implementation of Partners in
2. Is there significant difference of the performance of the students before and after
This action research will use Quasi-Experimental Method to seek answers to the
School during the first semester for the school year 2018-2019 which
Grade 11-Gold will serve as the controlled while Grade 11-Silver will be
the experimental group. They are the source of information where Partners
The researcher will make use of paper and pencil test in administering Pre-
Test and Post-Test to assess the performance in Rational Functions of the Grade
11 students of Aglipay High School. The raw scores of the respondents in the
test were taken for the corrected test papers which represent their performance
in Rational Functions.
traditional method will be done to the control group. Panel discussion will be
confidentiality.
The following are the statistical tools to be used to answer the research questions.
number 1.
This chapter concentrated on the results and discussion. The presentation of data is
divided into two, first is the interpretation of descriptive questions and the second is the
Research Question 1: What are the pre-test and post-test mean scores of the respondents
The first research questions looked for the pre-test and post-test scores of the
respondents before and after the implementation of the intervention (Partners in CRIME
Worksheets). The data was collected using a teacher-made pre-test and post-test which was
personally administered to the respondents. The data collected were analyzed using
descriptive statistics the mean and standard deviation. Table 1 shows the mean and standard
deviation of the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group while table 2 shows
the mean and standard deviation of the pre-test and post-test scores of the of the control
group.
Table 1:
Legend:
Mastery Level Description
96%-100% Mastered
86% - 95% Closely Approximating Mastery
66%-85% Moving towards Mastery
36%-65% Average Mastery
16%-35% Low Mastery
6%-15% Very low Mastery
0%-5% Absolutely No Mastery
Table 1 shows the mean scores of the experimental group in their pre-test and post-
test before and after the implementation of Partners in Crime Worksheets in Rational
numbers. It can be inferred from the table that students have a low mastery in the pre-test
with the mean scores of 13.067 and SD of 4.748. With this, it indicates that there is really
the students has a mean of 31.033 and a SD of 3.652 which means moving towards mastery.
It further shows that there is an increase in the performance of the students in Rational
The table above shows the mean, percentage of achievement and the Standard
deviation of the scores of the control group. It is glanced above that mean scores of the
students in the pre-test is 15.566 which is equal to 38.92% and has a standard deviation of
4.875 which is Average in the mastery level while the mean scores of the students in the
post-test is 29.367 or equal to 73.41% and has a standard deviation of 4.139. These results
also indicate that there is also an increased in their performance but not as high as the
experimental group.
The second question test if there is a significance difference between the pre-test
and post-test scores of the respondents before and after the implementation of Partners in
CRIME Worksheets. The data were obtained from the result of descriptive analysis.
Independent paired t-test was used to measure if there is statistically difference between
Table 3: Difference between the result of the pre-test and post-test of the
n Mean Difference
Lower Upper
Table 3 reveals that the Pre-Test and Post-Test generated a t-value of 26.307 and a p-
value of 0.000 indicates that there is a significant difference on the result of the pre–test
and post-test scores of the students which made the null hypothesis rejected. Then, the
table above indicates that the use of Partners in CRIME Worksheets significantly improved
Research Question 3: What is the effect size of Partners in CRIME Worksheets on the
Worksheets on the performance of Grade 11 students in Rational numbers. The data were
obtained from the results of t-test using the t-value, and it was analyzed using the eta-
squared (eta2) and Cohen’s d scale where 0.01-0.49 means small effect, 0.50-.69 means
moderate effect and 0.70-1.00 means large effect. Table 4 will present the result of the
data.
The table shows the test effect size of Partners in CRIME Worksheets in improving
the performance of the students in rational numbers. The table further shows that the eta2
generated a value of 0.814 which signifies large effect on the performance of the students.
Rational numbers.
CONCLUSION
Based from the test result, there is an increase in the scores of the students in pre-
test and post-test after the implementation of the Partners in CRIME worksheets. It is
gleaned that the group who received the intervention on the use of Partners in CRIME
Worksheets had greater scores and performed better than the other group.
There is significant difference between on the scores of the students before and
Thus, the use of Partners in CRIME Worksheets has something to do to increase the
RECOMMENDATION
Based from the finding and conclusions of the study, the following are recommended for
considerations:
1. Teachers should not only rely on traditional way of teaching, thus, they should
trainings.
4. The administrators and staffs should help provide the materials needed in the
classroom instructions.
VIII. References
http://moodle.tbaisd.org/pluginfile.php/68282/mod_resource/content/0/Assess
ments/RationalsMCPostTest.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283346560_Students'_conceptions_
of _rational_functions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283346560_Students'_conceptions_
https://study.com/academy/lesson/rational-function-definition-equation-
examples.html
IV. APPENDICES
AppendixA………………….Pre-Assessment/Post-Assessment
Appendix B…………………………………………….Letter to the parent
Appendix C …………………………………………...Parental Consent
Appendix D………………………………………….. Letter to the principal
Appendix B
Letter to Parent
Sir/Madam:
Christian Greetings!
I am Sheryl Joy P. Galvez, 30 years of age, JHS Teacher II of Aglipay High School,
Aglipay, Quirino.
Anent to this, may I request your permission to conduct the intervention to your
son/daughter ____________________, Grade 11 students of Aglipay High School,
Aglipay,Quirino.
P A R E N TA L C O N S E N T
I/We hereby willingly and voluntarily give consent the participation of my/our
son/daughter _____________________________________ in the intervention and
remediation activities.
I have considered the benefits that my/our son or daughter will derive from his/her
participation in this activity provided that due care and precaution will be observed to
ensure the comfort and safety of my/our son/daughter and that DepED employees and
personnel may not be held responsible for any untoward incident that may happen beyond
their control.
ERNESTENITA S. RUIZ
School Principal I
Aglipay High School
Aglipay, Quirino
Madam:
Christian Greetings!
I am Sheryl Joy P. Galvez, 30 years of age, JHS Teacher II of Aglipay High School,
Aglipay, Quirino.
Anent to this, may I request your benevolence to conduct the intervention to Grade
11 students of Aglipay High School, Aglipay, Quirino.