Undergraduate Thesis
Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English
University of Rizal System, Rodriguez, Rizal
2013

This study aimed to develop, validate and determine the level of acceptability of Modules in Literature for the Fourth Year High School Students, which will serve as a supplementary instructional material in teaching World Literature. This study was conducted during the School Year 2013-2014 at Tagumpay National High School and University of Rizal System, both located at Rodriguez, Rizal.

The study made use of the experimental and descriptive methods of research to determine the performance of the student-respondents before and after their exposure to the modules, and the perceptions of the teacher/professor respondents on the acceptability of the modules. The single group pretest posttest design was used in the experimental method to validate the research instruments and the descriptive evaluative method was used to evaluate the acceptability of the modules.

The respondents of the study were composed of two groups: 30 Fourth year high school students from Tagumpay National High School to whom the pretest and posttest activities were done and also 10 English Teachers/Professors - 4 from University of Rizal System Rodriguez and 6 from Tagumpay National High School who were experts in the field were requested to evaluate the modules for their acceptability.

The instruments used in the study were the 50-item teacher-made test and a questionnaire checklist to evaluate the acceptability of the modules in terms of objectives, content, activities, presentation, language and style, creativity, organization and evaluation.

After the study was conducted, these were the findings: 1) the mean score of the respondents in the pretest was 23. 23 while the mean score in posttest is 42, 2) since the p-value 0.000 is lower than 0.05 level of significance thus the null hypothesis was rejected, 3) lastly, as to the level of acceptability of the modules after the evaluation performed by the teachers, the obtained corresponding average means were the following: Objectives got 4.18, Contents had 4.04, Activities got 4.314, Creativity had 4.3, Organization got 4:275, Style and Presentation had 4.4 and Evaluation had 4.42.

Based on the findings, the following conclusions were arrived at: 1) the students learned after they were exposed to the developed modules, 2) there was significant difference between the mean score of pretest and posttest, 3) the developed modules were evaluated very acceptable supplementary instructional materials in teaching literature.

In line with the foregoing conclusions, the researchers recommend the developed modules: 1.) to the students, to consider and regard the idea of utilizing modules as instructional materials for the advancement of their academic skills and knowledge, 2.) to the future researchers, for them to conduct a similar or related study with related fields to test the effectiveness and acceptability of the modules in literature to be validated and compiled on the present module, 3.) to the teachers, contemplate on the idea of using the researchers' developed modules as reinforcement materials in schools since the respondents agreed that the modules were very acceptable, 3.) lastly, to the schools, the developed modules in literature can be utilized by both the instructors/teachers and students to further enhance the activities in English.