The Effects of Project RePo on Students' Reading Proficiencies and Skills

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the effects of school's reading intervention program named Project RePo designed to improve the reading proficiency levels and skills of Grade 7 students of Dña. Basilia S. Quilon Memorial High School. The efficacy of the reading intervention program was examined since the result of tests on the three skills in reading was used to determine the significant difference in pre and post test result. The data on reading proficiencies and skills were determined using the pre and post testing materials adapted from standard set by the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (PHIL-IRI). The researcher employed quasi experimental with one group pre- and post-test design. The data were statistically analyzed using percentage technique, measure of skewness, wilcoxon-signed test, t-test dependent, percent increase and kruskal wallis test. All hypothetical questions were interpreted at 5% level of significance. The result of the pretest using the Phil-lRI showed that majority of the Grade 7 students belonged to the frustration level reading proficiency. Additionally, the significant increase revealed by the tests on the three skills implied improvement in the students’ performance. Among the three skills, it shall be observed that improvement was most evident under reading comprehension while word reading improvement was the least evident. It shall then be concluded that Project RePo, an intervention given, was effective in enhancing students reading proficiencies and skills. Therefore, it was hereby recommended that school may use the program since it had proven its worth in improving the reading proficiencies of Grade 7 students.