Validation and Acceptability of Electronic Intervention Material (EIM) in Grade 7 Biology

Abstract

Learners at the fore-front of the educative process are expected to acquire relevant skills essential to abreast the demands of the changing world. Recently, the Philippines has acted upon reforms to capacitate the demands of quality education. However, the disparaging condition of the educational arena has resulted to poor students' performance. The Electronic Intervention Material (EIM) is a technology embedded e-strategy to facilitate knowledge acquisition, provide intervention and fill-in learning gaps. The study was undertaken to develop, validate and determine the acceptability of electronic intervention materials in Science for Grade VII. The study made use of experimental method utilizing pretest-posttest design. The findings of the study revealed that the over-all mean scores of the experimental group in the four learning areas remarkably increased during pre-tests and posttests. The developed, validated, and accepted EIM for grade 7 Biology has obtained a very high acceptability (Mean- 4.55, & SD-0.82). When utilized under an experimental test, the students have significantly shown improvement in terms of the student's performance. Significant gain scores in the pre-tests and posttests of the students revealed that the usage of EIM is resulted to improved receptions of concepts and acquired literacy. The EIM can be utilized primarily by teachers teaching the grade 7 whose areas of difficulty were identified on levels of organization/microscopy, plant and animal cells, heredity, inheritance and variation and ecosystem. Such mentioned areas were critical to the appreciation of Biology education, for it serves as fundamental unit of Biology learning in the junior high school Science curriculum.