THE EFFECT OF ELECTRONIC BOOK ON THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION AS

PERCEIVED BY THE HOMOGENEOUS CLASSES: BASIS FOR PROPOSED

INTERACTIVE STRATEGIES IN ELECTRONIC
BOOK-DRIVEN INSTRUCTION

Questionnaires

General Directions: Read and answer all items with honesty. Do not leave any item
unanswered.

I. Respondents’ Profile

Directions: Answer the following items as by ticking the box that corresponds to your answer.

Name (Optional): ______________________________

Araling Panlipunan Subject Currently Enrolled in

Asian Studies
Economics
World History
Contemporary Issues

II. Forms of Classroom Interactions in Araling Panlipunan

Directions: Listed below are the forms of classroom interactions in your Araling Panlipunan
class. Check which are practiced in your class. You may check more than one.

Forms of Classroom Interaction

1. Small group discussion (groups composed of 3-5 members)
2. Big group discussion (groups composed of 6-10 members)
3. Think-Pair-Share (diad or group)
4. Oral discussion directed by questions that are answerable by facts and short
responses such as “yes” or “no”
5. Oral discussion directed by questions that require explanation
6. Reporting done either by an individual or small group
7. Team games
8. Peer tutoring
9. Round table discussion
10. Role Playing/Drama/Skit
11. Tableu
12. Group Investigation/Research
 13. Debate
14. Interpretative activities such as song and poem interpretation, jazz chant, and
speech choir
15. Story Telling
16. Song/poem composition by group

III. Perceived Effect of the Use of Electronic Book in Classroom Interactions

Directions: Listed below are the possible effects of the uses of electronic book on classroom
interactions. Check the corresponding column for your answer. Use the scale
below.

4 Strongly Agree (SA)

3 Agree (A)
2 Disagree (D)
1 Strongly Disagree (SD)

Items

The use of electronic book in Araling Panlipunan... 4 3 2 1

(SA) (A) (D) (SD)
A. Positive Effects

1. encourage the students to participate actively during

recitation.

2. provides an equal opportunity among students to

participate in class discussion.

3. makes group activities interactive

4. makes students to be more confident in sharing to the

class their understanding of topics.

5. provides students avenues to creatively express their

thoughts about the lesson.

6. helps students to be more informed thus become

confident to reason out during discussion.

7. makes students to work independently most of the time

in class.

8. removes students’ uneasiness to freely discuss their

ideas with their teacher.

B. Negative Effects
9. engages the students more in their electronic book rather
than responding to the teacher’s discussion.

10. pauses students to raise questions and clarifications

during discussion.

11. limits collaboration among students since everything can

be read individually.

12. makes the subject boring.

13. makes students seated and quietly reading most of the

time.

-Thank you-