Data Center College of the Philippines of Baguio City, Inc.
2nd
Semester
Upper Bonifacio Road, Cor. Sumulong Street, Baguio City SY 2021-2022
Senior High School Department Research
Project
Reading Comprehension of Senior High School Students
(Acoking,Russell Jomar; Catubig,John Michael; Zcarnica,Narciza; Pabon,Irene)
June 2022
I. INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Reading comprehension is about understanding what you read.
Of course, there's more to it than that, when you comprehend Significance of the Study
what you are reading, you're not only understanding the words The following will benefit from this study:
and their meanings, but you are also understanding them Teachers This study will greatly aid the teachers in improving
enough to form opinions, thoughts and reflections about what the reading comprehension of the students by providing
the words mean together. Reading comprehension is like reading materials that are commonly read by the students.
having a conversation with someone. If you do not understand
Students this result will provide the students with some
what the other person is saying, you will have no idea what
knowledge on reading comprehension. It will give them
they are talking about and have nothing to say in return. No
realization of their level and attitudes situations on reading.
one wants to have that conversation! So, in order to
understand what you're reading, you have to follow certain Parents also serve as awareness for them to help their children.
steps.
This study may serve as a related study for future researchers
According to the 2018 Program for International Student in English especially in reading.
Assessment (PISA) results announced Tuesday, the
Philippines ranked last in reading comprehension among 79
participating nations and economies. PISA is a global Statement of the Problem
assessment conducted by the Organization for Economic This study focuses on the reading comprehension of
Cooperation and Development (OECD) that assesses pupils' Grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences Senior High School
reading, math, and science skills. In a global survey of students.
600,000 students conducted in 2018, Filipino kids aged 15 Specifically, it aims to answer the following
received a reading comprehension score of 340, which was questions:
lower than the global average of 487. As a result, the
1. What is the level of reading comprehension of
Philippines came in last place out of 79 countries studied in
grade 12 HUMSS students at DCCP- Baguio?
the study.
2. What are the common reading materials read by
Poetry, encyclopedias, and dictionaries are common reading grade 12 HUMSS students at DCCP-Baguio?
resources used by SHS students. Poetry is a style of literature
II. METHODS OF RESEARCH
that uses a focused, lyrical arrangement of words to express a Population and Locale
message, describe a scene, or tell a tale. The goal of poetry is The participants in this study are 40 DCCP-Baguio
to elicit a focused imaginative awareness of experience or a Grade 12 students enrolled in the second semester of the
specific emotional response using language that has been school year 2021-2022. The respondents were chosen using a
convenience sample method. A total of 40 grade 12 HUMSS
chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. An
students from DCCP, Baguio City, out of a total of 270 grade
encyclopedia is a book or a collection of books that provide 12 students, participated in our research paper.
knowledge on a variety of subjects or elements of a single
subject and are often organized alphabetically. The purpose of Data Gathering Procedure
dictionaries is to define words, and a dictionary may provide The researcher sought first the approval of Ms. Anna
Mae Policarpio, the Head for Academics at DCCP-Baguio.
information about their pronunciation, grammatical forms and
Once the research study was approved, the researchers
functions, etymologies, syntactic peculiarities, variant conducted a reading comprehension test and gave the survey
spellings, and antonyms. An encyclopedia is a reference tool checklist to the students. After the reading comprehension test
with information on a wide range of topics and Dictionaries and the survey checklist was completed, the researchers
are a set of words or other text strings made for use in checked and analyzed the data gathered.
applications such as spelling checkers.
Data Gathering Tool
The researcher used a reading comprehension test
created by the researcher and a survey checklist created by the
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researcher. Their research adviser reviewed and approved the Low
data collection technique.
In the class of 40 students there are 30% of students who got
low level of reading comprehension. This means that they had
difficulties in reading too. They might have difficulties in
recognizing and appropriately applying background
knowledge, poor decoding and word recognition skills, limited
vocabulary knowledge, underdeveloped reading fluency, a less
Treatment of Data than strategic approach to comprehension.
The following statistical tools were used by the Very Low
researchers to answer the specific problems of the study:
Percentage. This statistical tool was used to Out of 40 students there are 17% of students got very low
determine the frequency count and percentage distribution of level of reading comprehension. Which means that they need
the level of reading comprehension of students. to know the skills in reading. Maybe because they needed
Ranking. This statistical tool was used to identify the some time to learn and understand. Meaning that some
most common to least common reading material read by the students had difficulties like, ADHD, dyslexia, limited
respondents of the study. vocabulary, working memory deficit, and more.
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The result of the study shows that most student got a
Level of Reading comprehension of Grade 12 HUMSS low level of reading comprehension which means that students
Students have much difficulty understanding the text they read.
This section presents the level of reading
comprehension of Grade 12 HUMSS students. The level of
Reading Materials Read by Grade 12 HUMSS Students
reading comprehension of students was based on Program for
This section presents different reading materials of
International Student Assessment (PISA).
Grade 12 HUMSS students. The reading materials are limited
Table 1
only to hardcopies. Online reading materials are excluded
Level of Reading comprehension of Grade 12 HUMSS
from this study.
Students
Table 2
Level of Reading Frequency Percentage
Common Reading Materials Read by Grade 12 HUMSS
Comprehension
Students
Very High 11 28 % Type of Reading Frequency Rank
High 10 25 % Materials
Low 12 30 % Textbook 20 3
Very Low 7 17 % Story Book 40 1
Total 40 100 % Newspapers 35 2
Magazines 12 4
Table 1 shows the level of reading comprehension of Song Lyrics 10 5
Grade 12 HUMSS students. Table 2 shows the most common to least common
Very high reading materials of students. Out of the different reading
materials, story book is rank 1 with 40 students followed by
Among 40 students there are 28% who got very high level of Newspapers at rank 2 with 35 students. Textbook follows at
reading comprehension. Meaning that they've understand the rank 3 with 20 students, magazines at rank 4 with 12 students
text that they reading. Maybe some of the students improve and song lyrics at rank 5 with 10 students.
their vocabulary or they have learned the skills in reading. The result shows that majority of the students prefer
This is because most likely at the level of lectures these to read story books.
students are required to read English reference books. (present now a discussion of the result of the study)
(corroborate the result with other researches)
High (give the implication of the result)
In 40 students there are 25% who got high level of reading (7-10 paragraphs)
comprehension. These means they slightly understand the text
that they've reading. It may be that some of the students had a
little bit of difficulty in understanding.
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IV. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
CONCLUSION
A) Based on the findings of the study, the following are
concluded:
1. The research concludes that HUMSS–SHS students have
satisfactory reading comprehension skills, that there are
internal and external factors affecting their satisfactory reading
comprehension performance, and that strategic directions to
improve performance via school-based intervention are given.
2. This study focused on the difficulties of SHS student's in
reading comprehension and the reading materials that they've
read. Then, from the calculation, it can be seen that the most
increase was in finding main idea aspect and the lowest
increase was inference. From the level of comprehension
result, it concludes that the highest increase was literal
comprehension and the lowest increase was critical
comprehension.
RECOMMENDATION
B) Based on the findings of the study, the following are
recommended:
1. Further studies on the performance on reading
comprehension of other levels
2. Study on the reading comprehension skills of marginalized
and disabled
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