Home⇛International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research⇛vol. 6 no. 6 (2025)

Integration of Place-Based Education for Fostering the Problem-Solving Skills of Grade 9 Students

Nympha M. Moyano | Rose R. Andrade

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Enhancing problem-solving skills is one of the primary goals of Math-ematics education, however, it is still the least mastered competency among secondary learners. The primary goal of the study was to ex-plore Place-Based Education as an innovative pedagogical approach in improving the problem-solving skills of Grade 9 students in one national high school in the Philippines. The study utilized a pre-ex-perimental research design integrating PBE into mathematics clas-ses. The researcher created a survey questionnaire to assess stu-dents’ level of perceptions on the integration of PBE in terms of local context, learner-centered, design-thinking, inquiry-based, commu-nity as classroom, and interdisciplinary. A researcher-made test was used to assess the pretest and posttest assessment of students’ prob-lem-solving skills in terms of understanding the problem, planning problem-solving, problem-solving, and re-examining and conclusion. Based on the findings, students highly believed that PBE utilizes the community as a classroom, interdisciplinary, and inquiry-based. Moreover, students believed that it focuses on local context, learner-centered, and design thinking teaching approach. Furthermore, there is a significant difference in the students’ problem-solving skills be-fore and after the experiment, thus, integration of Place-Based Edu-cation was associated with improvements in students’ problem-solv-ing skills. The study recommends that teachers adopt the integration of PBE in the teaching-learning process in other disciplines to test other higher-order thinking skills.



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