Discipline: Education
Campus journalism is valued in schools in the Philippines. To improve the journalistic skills of the student writers, the researcher created the Righting Model. Thus, this study aimed to ascertain the mean scores of student writers in news writing, feature writing and editorial writing before and after the intervention. This one-group pretest-posttest research utilized a researcher-made Journalistic Performance Rating Scale Checklist. Five student writers of the English publication in a public secondary school in a Mina National High School in Schools Division of Iloilo were the participants of the study. Statistical tools such as the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, Paired t-test, Mean and Standard Deviation were used to describe and analyze the data. All statistical computations were processed through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software with a level of significance set at .05 alpha. Results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference in students’ journalistic performance before and after the intervention which was the Righting Model. The level of mean scores before the intervention was Developing. After the intervention, it rose to Proficiency level. Furthermore, the results revealed that after the use of the Righting Model, the mean scores of student writers when the categories were paired did have significant differences. This may mean that the model applies to any journalistic category.
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