scHool,s IN TrrF NATIONAL ACITIF'.VEMENT TEST (NAT)

INSTRUCTIONAL

PRACTICES OF TOP PERFORMING PTJBLIC SECONDARY

scHool,s IN TrrF NATIONAL

ACITIF'.VEMENT TEST (NAT):

TOWARDS A PROPOSED

ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

A

Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate School

University of Saint La Salle Bacolod

City

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Education

NICOLAS ALIMURONG, YUZON

November

20W-

111

Title

Researcher Degree Institution

ABSTRACT

INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES OF' TOP PERFORMING PT}BLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE NATIONAL ACIIIEVEMENT TEST (NAT): TOWARDS A

^PROPOSEI)

ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

Nicolas A. Yuzon

Doctor of Education

University

of

St La

Salle, Bacolod

City

This

research was designed

to

describe the National Achievement

(NAT)

Test performance

in the different learning areas, supervisory

instructional

. practices, instn'rctional practices, problems encountered

and

enhancements undertaken

by

the school heads and teachers regarding the 2012

NAT

among the

top

performing public secondary schools in the Division of Tarlac Province.

The descriptive method of research was used. The top ten (10) performing public secondary schools where ten

(10)

school head respondents and

sixty six (66)

teacher respondents who taught English,

Filipino,

Science, Mathematics and Araling Panlipunan in the Fourth Year were the respondents of the study.

Findings revealed

that

among

the

supervisory instructional practices

of

school heads

on knowledge, skills and

attitudes

were

checking lesson

plans and

grving suggestions for improvement, conducting and supervising mock

NAT

and conducting In- Service Training. Instructional practices

of

teachers on knowledge,

skills

and attitudes were the preparation

of

lesson plans or logging

in,

monitoring sfudents' attendance and attending school INSET's, training and seminar workshops.

iv There was a significant

relationship between

the

supervisory instructional practices on skills and the over-all

NAT

Mean Percentage Scores of students since school heads

do not

have

a direct

contact

with the

students. There

was also a

significant relationship between teachers' instnrctional practices

on skills and

students'

NAT

performance since teachers have a direct contact

with

the students. The more skills they executed the higher student performance was. The problems sometimes encountered

by the

respondents

were insufficient NAT

reviewers

for the

students and mismatch

of

commercial

NAT

reviewers.

Enhancements

such as

preparing

effective

lesson

plans

regularly,. assessing previous

NAT

results and making targets

for

future

NAT

perfonnance, monitoring and evaluating instruction and making quizzes and monthly examination similar

to

that

of NAT

test so that they can familiarize with

it

were always done by the respondents.

The

researcher recommended

the utilization of

enhancement progftrm

to

help improve the

NAT

performance

of

both public and private secondary schools. The study had various implications to educational management.