Araling Panlipunan Skills Among Grade 10 Students

Abstract

This study determined the acquired skills of Grade 10 students in Araling Panlipunan for the School Year 2016-2017. The descriptive-correlation design was used in the study. Purposive sampling was utilized to select the respondents. A researcher-made questionnaire was the main data gathering instrument which was subjected to content validity. Frequency counts, percentages and average weighted mean were used for descriptive analysis. The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) - Wilk’s Lambda and Pearson rho were used to analyze the obtained data to support or reject the null hypothesis.

Results showed that Grade 10 learners are dominated by females, with both parents as mostly high school graduates, mostly poor, and have very satisfactory average grade in Araling Panlipunan. The students have below average acquisition in most of the skills in Araling Panlipunan, except for research skill. Students encountered slightly serious problems in acquiring Araling Panlipunan skills. Moreover, the study showed that there are differences in the acquisition of Araling panlipunan skills in sex, educational attainment of parents, and average grades. On the other hand, there is no significant relationship between the problems encountered by the learners and the level of other Araling Panlipunan skills, except for Communication skill. Based from the findings and conclusion of the study, the following are recommended: interventions and remediation must be conducted to further enhance the Araling Panlipunan skills of the students particularly in the areas where they obtained low level of acquisition, teachers may conduct activities that would call for developing the higher order thinking skills of the students, teachers and research enthusiasts may come up with the same study with other variables, parents must check their monthly average income in relation to the acquired skills in Araling Panlipunan of their children, schools must increase the number of instructional materials in Araling Panlipunan and improve the Learning Resource Center and performance tasks may be a focus of the study since the study only focuses on Content standards.