Development and Evaluation of a Contextualized Reference Material in Social Studies

ABSTRACT: This study developed and evaluated Sarong Bantayog as a K to 12 contextualized reference material in Social Studies. It specifically determined content knowledge of Grade VII high school students on geography, history and socio-cultural landscape of CamarinesNorte; jurors’ assessment of the developed contextualized referenced material along level of integrity, level of contextualization; level of innovativeness, level of acceptability, and the effectiveness of the material. Results showed that the content knowledge of the freshmen high school students in geography, history, and socio-cultural landscapes of CamarinesNorte is with a mean of 34.07 and MPS: 63.10 percent or average. The developed contextualized reference material is Sarong Bantayog written in Filipino, is congruent to K to 12 Social Studies for both elementary and secondary level students. It is divided into 3 units: Geography, History, and Socio-cultural landscapes of CamarinesNorte. Thejurors’ assessment resulted in the overall weighted mean of 3.91: high integrity; 3.92: highly contextualized; 3.89: highly innovative; 4.00: highly acceptable; and 3.88: highly effective. In conclusion, the freshmen high school students have average content knowledge in Geography, History, and Socio-cultural landscapes of CamarinesNorte. There is a contextualized learning material called “Sarong Bantayog” that was developed for Social Studies. The jurors assessed the developed contextualized material in Social Studies as with high integrity, highly contextualized, highly innovative, highly acceptable, and highly effective.

KEYWORDS : Contextualized ,Reference Material Development, Instructional Material Evaluation, Social Studies