Instructional Materials in Filipino Rhetoric: A Source of Educational Excellence in Filipino Curriculum
De La Salle University-Manila/ Eulogio "Amang" Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology
ABSTRACT
The development of the Instructional Materials in Filipino Rhetoric has a great influence in modification of modern Filipino curriculum both public and private institution in terms of general and tertiary education. It supports numerous tasks of methodologies, techniques, approaches and strategies in teaching which is capable in selecting well-fitted and worthwhile learning activities, depth explanations, productive questions and evaluating student’s learning. This is important to accelerate the teaching-learning process thru better improvement of quality assurances of Filipino education. In this view, the composed instructional materials in Filipino Rhetoric is subjective and objective in sculpturing better objectives, content, language and style, organization, application and evaluation. The three groups of respondents were used in order to established a strong foundation of quality assurances of instructional materials in Filipino including its reliability through experts, faculty and student-learners who used the instructional materials through pre-test and post-test including also the statistical treatments such as weighted mean, rank, percentage, mean passing scores and t-test. On the other hand, this study determine and generate that the instructional materials in terms of objectives, content, language and style, organization, application, and evaluation are acceptable with a weighted mean of 4.60, 4.36, 4.50, 4.28, 4.15, and 4.36 respectively. It is noted that the mean scores of the students in experimental group had increased from 20.08 to 42.48 obtained a high performance from 70.08 or moving towards mastery to 92.48 interpreted as closely approximating mastery with a higher performance level in post-test than the pre-test. On the other hand, the mean scores of the students in control group had increased from 19.33 to 37.73 obtained a high performance from 69.33 or moving towards mastery to 87.73 interpreted as closely approximating mastery with a higher performance level in post-test than the pre-test. It signifies that the Instructional Materials in Filipino Rhetoric is a better instrument as a source of Educational Excellence in Filipino Curriculum.
KEYWORDS
Filipino Rhetoric, Curriculum, Instructional Material, Teaching-learning Process, Quality Assurance