Difficulties and Adaptive Strategies of Bakhaw Sur Elementary Students in Learning Science: Basis on the Development of Siyensiya SA Bangketa Program
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The prime purpose of this study was to assess the difficulties and adaptive strategies of 20 Grade 6 students from Bakhaw Sur Elementary School in learning Science which served as the basis and foundation for developing the ‘Siyensiya sa Bangketa’ Program, a project that seeks to provide tutoring sessions on science-related subjects for the aforementioned pupils. Two 25-item checklist questionnaires for the difficulties and adaptive strategies were used to collect information on struggles experienced and coping mechanisms done by the respondents. For the level of acceptability, a 20-item questionnaire is used but is divided into five parts: quality of teaching, organization, convenience and serviceability, appeal to target audience, and students’ improvement. The assessment of the difficulties experienced, and coping strategies of Grade 6 Bakhaw Sur Elementary students used frequency count, sum, percentage, and mean as the descriptive statistics which became the basis in developing the program. The results showed that the level of difficulties was “evident” among the Grade 6 students of Bakhaw Sur Elementary School which means that the students were “slightly struggling”. On the other hand, the level of adaptive strategies was “highly evident” among the Grade 6 students of Bakhaw Sur Elementary School which means that most of the students cope a lot. Based on the result of the study, Siyensya Bangketa Program was created. The overall level of acceptability of the Siyensiya sa Bangketa Program showed a “very highly evident” result, indicating outstanding feedback.
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Difficulties, Adaptive Strategies, Acceptability, Tutoring, Elementary school