Abstract
This study was crafted and launched to find the relationship between the effectiveness of modular approach to teaching and learners’ academic achievement in Araling Panlipunan at Sumilao District, SY 2020-2021. The descriptivecorrelational research design was used. It was conducted in the elementary schools of Sumilao District, Division of Bukidnon, school year 2020-2021. This study requested the teachers of the small, medium, and big schools of Sumilao District, Division of Bukidnon to be the respondents. The researcher adopted the instrument of Vergara (2017). The researcher made a slight modification to fit the instrument to the present study. The following statistical tools were used in this study: percentage and frequency, mean and standard deviation, percentage and frequency count, and Pearson r Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient or Pearson. This study found out that most of the parents/learners had positive responses to the modules. Few had negative responses and neutral responses. The modular approach to teaching in terms of content, language, presentation, assessment were perceived by the teachers as highly effective in all its indicators. Majority of the learners had very satisfactory academic achievement in Araling Panlipunan. The variables contents, language, presentation and assessment had a positive significant relationship with the learners’ academic achievement in Araling Panlipunan. There was a significant relationship between the responses of parents/learners to the modules and the learners’ academic achievement. This study offers the following recommendations: the teachers and school heads may entertain the parents and learners positively whenever they come to school to get or to return modules. The teachers may continue to follow the MELC or Most Essential Learning Competency in printing the modules and providing the activity sheets. The parents may continue to guide their children so that their high grades or very satisfactory grades can be sustained. The Department of Education may continue to produce modules that have contents, language, presentation, and assessment which are significantly related for the attainment of good grades of the learners. The parents/learners may maintain their positive responses that they have for the modules as it has a significant relationship to the academic achievement of the learners.
