Effectiveness of Trans-Smart Program to the Pupils' Reading Interest

Abstract

Nowadays, school administrators in the Elementary Public Schools in the Philippines are challenged to provide a project that will achieve the Department of Education’s goal to have a zero non-reader in all levels. In this study, Silangan Elementary School developed the Trans-SMART program which aimed to determine the pupil-respondents’ reading interest via Trans-SMART program using the Strategic Intervention Materials (SIM). TRANS-SMART Program (Transforming Learners through Science, Mathematics and Reading Time Program) is one of the pioneering innovative tools that was formulated by the institution to lessen the problems in relation to pupils who were non-readers. This new innovative tool is an example of remedial teaching. The one group pretest-posttest design was used to find out the effectiveness of the implementation of the program as an intervention in enhancing the reading level of struggling readers. The findings revealed that Trans-SMART program was effective. Likewise, most of the pupils obtained high scores in the posttest. There were significant differences in the pretest and posttest results in English, Mathematics, and Science after the implementation of the program using Strategic Intervention Materials.

Keywords: effectiveness, interest, innovative, Trans-SMART Program, intervention