The use of programmed text material in teaching rice culture in some secondary agricultural school in the Philippines

Date

5-1966

Abstract

Scope and Method of Study. The purposes of this study were to develop a linear type of programmed instruction in rice culture, to determine the amount of learning that takes place among students exposed to the conventional lecture- discussion method and the programmed instruction method of teaching rice culture, and to compare the effectiveness of each method of teaching in terms of learning acquired in the teaching of rice culture.

Eight vocational agriculture teachers and four hundred male secondary agriculture students in eight secondary agriculture schools in the Philippines, cooperated in this study. The method includes an interview schedule on age and socio-economic background of the students, students' previous scholastic performance, a Philippines' Self Administering intelligence test, a Diagnostic reading comprehension test, an achievement test on rice culture. Fisher t- and student t-tests, analyses of variance, Multiple regression and correlation analysis, Fisher t- to z- back transformation, and an r-pooled correlation analysis were used in treating the data statistically.

Findings and Conclusion

About 75% of the parents of the students who participated in this study had graduated from the elementary schools, and 67% of them were farmers. Seventy-two percent of the said students came from the barrios and a little over 60% had indicated that radio was an important appliance they had at home. More than 40% showed that they subscribed to 2-3 kinds of reading materials; and almost 50% of them were between the ages 16-19 years. About 64% of the respondents had plans to continue their studies in college.

Fisher t-test showed that there was no significant difference between pre-tests on rice culture of the two groups of students. This indicates that the two groups of students were comparable in ability to learn. On the other hand, a Student t-test showed that there were significant differences between the conventional lecture- discussion method and the programmed instruction method of teaching in six out of the eight schools, in favor of of the latter method. A significant difference obtained in an analysis of variance between the means gained by the students in the two methods of teaching indicated that the programmed instruction method of teaching was more effective.

A multiple regression and correlation analysis showed that students' previous scholastic performance and intelligence quotient are valid indicators of the method of teaching. An r-pooled correlation analysis showed that the inter-relationships among the four variables, namely, students' previous scholastic performance, intelligence quotient, reading comprehension and method of teaching were significant which disclosed that these four variables were associated with each other although in varying degrees only.

Based on this study, the effectiveness of programmed instruction on the principles and culture of rice production as conducted in eight vocational agriculture schools in the Philippines gave substantial evidence to support the earlier findings that programmed instruction is indeed an effective and efficient method of teaching.

Document Type

Dissertation

College

Graduate School (GS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Martin V. Jarmin

Language

English

LC Subject

Rice

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 996 1966 A16 A46

Notes

Doctor of Philosophy (Agricultural Education)

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