Ap-Dama Design: Effectiveness on Test Performance of the Pupils in Araling Panlipunan

  • Edrian Mark M Tomines
  • Arvin April P Tipolo
  • Jovar G Pantao
Keywords: AP-Dama, Test Performance, Araling Panlipunan, Gamification, H.N. Cahilsot Central Elementary School, Calumpang Elementary School

Abstract

Araling Panlipunan is one of the difficult subjects nowadays due to its complexity. Learners tend to overlook it and classify it as a minor subject.  AP-DAMA as a gamification tool may help learners to improve their test performance primarily in this subject. This research was carried out to determine the effectiveness of AP-DAMA design to the test performance of the learners in Araling Panlipunan. The research employed quasi-experimental design which was conducted for two (2) months and two (2) weeks done once (1) a week. The subjects were two hundred two (202) Grade V learners who were officially enrolled in H.N. Cahilsot Central Elementary School and Calumpang Elementary School, Barangay Calumpang, General Santos City during the school year 2018-2019. The researchers developed a thirty (30) item pre-test and post-test questionnaire, AP-DAMA game and ten (10) questionnaires for the game to collect data on the test performance of the learners. The study found out that the learners in the control and treatment group have a low level of test performance in Araling Panlipunan before the use of AP-DAMA as an intervention. There is also a significant improvement in the test performance of the treatment group after the use of AP-DAMA. No significant difference is observed in the test performance of the pupils in the control and experimental group before and after the AP-DAMA intervention. The data also revealed that the AP-DAMA significantly improved the test performance of the pupils in Araling Panlipunan. Hence, AP-DAMA is significantly effective in improving the test performance of the pupils in Araling Panlipunan. This study further recommended that Araling Panlipunan teachers and school administrators to check the results of this study for future developments in the test performances of the learners; research is needed to identify the effectiveness of AP-DAMA design as an intervention for increasing learning motivation, formative and summative assessments

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2021-08-23
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Tomines, E. M. M., Tipolo, A. A. P., & Pantao, J. G. (2021). Ap-Dama Design: Effectiveness on Test Performance of the Pupils in Araling Panlipunan. ASEAN Journal of Basic and Higher Education, 5(1), 41-64. Retrieved from https://www.paressu.org/online/index.php/aseanjbh/article/view/288
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