Supplementary values saturation program among students in the Philippines: Students’ stance and value

Abstract

Good morals and behaviours are acquired and developed. There are claimed that people do not uphold values become irresponsible of their time and energy. When this happens, intervention is needed. For this reason, this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the supplementary values saturation program on discipline and responsibility implemented to 179 Grade 7 students in Benjamin B. Esguerra Memorial National High School. Kohlberg stated a clear hierarchy of moral values and prescriptive action kind of moral education is more effective and the use of bible-based principles through reflective activities creates impact on students’ behaviour modification. Quantitatively, pre-test and post-test control research design and a validated researchers’ questionnaire with 0.92 Cronbach’s alpha at significant level of 0.05 are used to answer the following research questions: What are the students’ stance on situations anchored on discipline and responsibility? Is there a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test of the students? Through Paired T-test and descriptive statistics, findings are: (1) There are situations commonly apply and uphold by the respondents and (2) the computed p-value is less than the significance level alpha=0.05, hence, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. This study concludes that continues values saturation help students increase their intention to apply and uphold the virtue of discipline and responsibility. Hence, findings of this study therefore recommend conducting values saturation as one of the strategies to make students more discipline and responsibility.

Keywords: Behaviour modification, instructional design, values saturation