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By Isidro Biol
BUTUAN CITY, July 25 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) Caraga Administrative Region has topped again in the National Achievement Test (NAT), which was conducted by the National Education Testing and Research Center (NETRC) in March 2013.
The region acquired the top rank performance for two consecutive years in Grade 3, Grade 6 and Year 4. The table below shows the comparative results based on the Mean Percentage Scores (MPS) of the region’s performance in the three grade levels:
Grade SY 2011-2012 SY 2012-2013
Grade 3 74.47 % 74.22 %
Grade 6 79.85 % 79.49 %
Year 4 62.42 % 64.62 %
It can be gleaned from the table that Grade 6 pupils have achieved more than the standard criterion of 75% achievement level set by the Department of Education which is the national target and they belonged to the superior group based on the percentage of correctly answered items in a test or subject area proficiencies in four levels with the corresponding descriptive equivalent, such as: 76 – 100% Superior; 51-75% Upper Average; 26-50% Lower Average; and 0-25% Poor. The performance of Grade 3 and Year 4 belongs to the Upper Average.
The Grade 3 pupils took the test based on the six subject areas that included English Reading, Filipino Reading, English Grammar, Filipino Grammar, Science, and Mathematics; while the Grade 6 pupils took the Filipino, Mathematics, English, Science, and HEKASI subject areas. The Year 4 students took the Filipino, Araling Panlipunan, Mathematics, Science, English, and Critical Thinking subject areas.
DepEd Caraga regional director Atty. Alberto T. Escobarte said the laudable feat was achieved due to the provisions of the various intervention activities by the schools and the adherence to the Time-On-Task Policy of the department. The said policy was implemented in order to achieve the exact contact time allotment in every subject so that the learning competencies per quarter is realized.
Escobarte added that the Remediation, Reinforcement and Enrichment (RRE) Program of the region became effective due to its implementation by focusing the Least Learned Skills (LLS) of the pupils/students in the subject areas during the Friday classes integrating the strategies of teaching the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).
“The success of the region is also attributed by the supportive stakeholders such as: the nine congressional representatives; the provincial governors; city mayors; and all municipal and government officials all headed by Chairperson of the Regional Development Council (RDC) and provincial governor of Surigao del Norte, Sol F. Matugas,” Escobarte said. (FEA/DepEd-13/PIA-Caraga)
