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Basa Pilipinas: Transforming Reading Instruction to Boost Student Learning Outcomes

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In this midterm evaluation of the Basa Pilipinas project in the Philippines, EDC tracked and measured changes in student reading performance. The evaluation was conducted over a period of years and followed a cross-sectional design that examined student reading data on Filipino and English Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) as well as data on school environment obtained through student interviews.

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• Classrooms receiving the full Basa intervention showed significant improvements in student reading skills in Filipino, particularly on fluency and reading comprehension.
• With Basa assistance, grade 2 students achieved substantial gains in reading comprehension in Filipino, by as much as 24 percent at endline.
• Basa’s intervention significantly helped teachers improve their classroom management by ensuring more equitable participation of learners, more accessibility of classroom materials, and more effective management of reading and writing instruction.
• The most improvement was seen in the domain of language and literacy instruction, particularly in providing opportunities for students to develop oral language, reading fluency, and comprehension.

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The USAID/Philippines, through its Basa Pilipinas program has reached over 1.8 million students from kindergarten to Grade 3, trained over 19,000 teachers and school heads, and provided over 10 mil

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Home ⇛ arete ⇛ vol. 4 no. 1 (2016), level of reading comprehension of the education students.

Mica Elaine M Bilbao | Connie Lizetthe S Donguila | Ma. Juliet G. Vasay

Discipline: Education

Reading comprehension is one of the reading competencies that every student has to develop. However, there are still students who are below the proficiency level of reading comprehension despite the reading instructions and strategies provided by the teachers for the improvement of students’ reading comprehension. This quantitative study employed the descriptive comparative research design. It aimed to profile the level of reading comprehension of the 124 Education students enrolled during the first semester of the academic year 2017-2018 in one of the catholic universities in Davao City. A validated adapted-but-modified test questionnaire was used to determine the level of reading comprehension of the Education students. Moreover, it sought to determine the significant difference in the level of reading comprehension of the students when analyzed according to sex and year level. The mean, t-test, and standard deviation were the statistical tools used in this study. The results of the gathered data revealed that the overall reading comprehension of the Education students is Satisfactory with a descriptive level of Moderate. This means that the students can understand difficult reading texts under literal, interpretive, evaluative, and creative levels with less supervision. Consequently, the respondents’ year level bear a significant difference when grouped accordingly. However, when grouped according to sex, the results show that it did not establish any significant difference.

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Effects of Social Media on the Reading Comprehension of Selected Senior High School Student of BCP: Towards Intervention

• Jenyfer Valdez Bestlink College of the Philippines
• Sophia Biene Patriarca Bestlink College of the Philippines
• Leihannie Louise Labanta Bestlink College of the Philippines
• Reynalyn Espallardo Bestlink College of the Philippines
• Maryjoy Dela Cruz Bestlink College of the Philippines

In 2018, the Philippines faced a controversy surrounding the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, which revealed a score of 340 points in Reading comprehension. As we enter the 21st century, the issue of declining reading comprehension skills has become more pressing, with many individuals being distracted by social media and spending less time reading productively. To address this issue, a research study was conducted to investigate the effects of social media on the reading comprehension of selected Senior High School students of BCP. The study found that digital natives tend to excessively use social media for entertainment, which can be detrimental to their reading comprehension skills if they become too distracted by the content. To combat this, it is recommended that students increase their digital literacy and prioritize their reading comprehension skills to achieve success in their academic pursuits.

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Addressing the Philippines’ learning crisis

By Adrian Paul B. Conoza , Special Features Assistant Editor

Business leaders and education experts have largely recognized that education in the Philippines has been facing a lot of difficulties, and the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated such difficulties as schools adopted distanced or ‘blended’ learning in the past two years. The consensus has been that the Philippines — and the world in general — has been facing a “learning crisis,” and it is hoped that the new administration will exert great effort in resolving this another crisis in the country as face-to-face classes have resumed.

To recall, the most recent results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) showed that 15-year-old students in the Philippines scored lower in reading, mathematics, and science than those in most of the countries and economies that participated in the survey back in 2018.

The Philippines scored the lowest in reading comprehension with a mean score of 340 points, below the survey average of 487 points; while it was the second-lowest in Science at 357 and in Math at 353, below the average of 489 points in both subjects.

Interpreting the findings in context, OECD notes that expenditure per student in the Philippines was the lowest amongst all PISA-participating countries, and the expenditure was 90% lower than the OECD average.

“By comparison, expenditure per student in Indonesia was 83% lower than the OECD average and students there outperformed students in the Philippines, although their scores were still lower than those of students in between 66 and 70 other countries/economies,” the PISA report added.

Fast-forward to the past two years, when the pandemic forced schools to continue their classes virtually and even some to halt their operations, the difficulties in the country’s education system have been found to be much deeper.

On the other hand, based on Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics from 2019, as published in United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) report on the State of Learning Poverty, the country’s learning poverty is at 90.9%.

According to WB, school closures and learning loss during the pandemic can have a long-term negative impact on the current cohort of school children, and these two factors are likely to affect the children’s economic potential and productivity in adulthood.

WB estimated that due to learning losses, an average annual earning per student will decrease by $893 to $1,137, or a loss of present value of individual lifetime earnings by $16,287 to $20,752.

Further on the pandemic’s impacts, WB observed that an additional 1.6 million students were out of school in 2021 as overall basic education enrollment was 6% lower than in 2020. Enrolled children, meanwhile, faced many challenges to effective learning under a distance learning modality; and such challenges have been found greater for lower-income households who have limited resources for better access. This likely explains the high demand for returning to in-person classes, highly driven by lower-income households and women.

Cited by advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) in a statement, a survey by Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilya ng Pantawid of more than 9,000 parents revealed that they spent 40% more because of distance learning compared to 2020; while a Pulse Asia survey said that one out of four parents think their children are not learning in the remote setup.

More recently, according to UNICEF’s report, jointly published in partnership with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and WB last March, nearly six out of every 10 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries suffering from learning poverty. Translated to the Philippine context, less than 15% of Filipino children are found to be capable of reading a simple text at age 10 — placing the country’s learning poverty somewhere around 85%.

Another highlight of the report confirmed that the Philippines has the longest duration of school closures, as of last February. Year 2020 figures cited by PBEd showed that private school closures reached a total of 1,179.

“Clearly, we need to stop the learning crisis. All sectors of society need to take part in solving this crisis, with the government taking the lead. We must demand for better education, for quality education enables individuals to enjoy strongly rooted and secure lives as reflected in Ambisyon Natin 2040,” PBEd Chairman Ramon del Rosario, Jr. said in a statement.

Sharing in a compilation of insights published on BusinessWorld’s anniversary report last July, Mr. del Rosario noted that the longstanding education crisis is what currently hurdles the country from reaching its goal of slashing Philippine poverty to a single digit, as shared by the current President in his trust state of the nation address.

“We cannot address our learning losses without sufficient resources. Historically, only 3% of our GDP (gross domestic product) has been allotted for the education sector. While the proposed budget for basic education now is at 4.3%, we still do not meet the global standard of 6%. We should spend as much for education as we do for physical infrastructure,” the PBEd chairman continued.

PBEd, together with Philippine Business for Social Progress, Makati Business Club, and Management Association of the Philippines, proposes the following policy directions for improving the country’s education system: (1) bringing all children to quality pre-Kindergarten to Grade 3 education and developmental programs; (2) improving the quality of instruction and teachers with the target that all learners meet basic skills based on international standards; (3) using the lens of lifelong learning in workforce development; (4) fully leveraging private education to better complement delivery of services; and (5) strengthening autonomy, coupled with accountability, of school leaders and local governments.

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