Philippine E-Journals

Project B.O.O.S.T.E.R.S. (Brochures Offered Offline to Students by Teachers to Enhance Research Skills): An Evaluation

Arnel S. Miraflor

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Senior high school academic workloads and cognitive demands in-crease, making passive traditional lectures ineffective for reducing student anxiety or building complicated research skills. Targeted, of-fline asynchronous educational methods are needed. The study eval-uated how computer-generated brochure technology affects aca-demic performance and whether Project BOOSTERS and typical self-learning modules varied significantly between pre- and post-test out-comes. A descriptive-experimental design randomly and equally as-signed Grade Twelve pupils to the brochure intervention or modular lecture control track. Because of violated normality assumptions, identical pre- and post-tests were given across two weeks and ana-lysed using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-test. Although both groups improved, Project BOOSTERS had considerably higher post-test means and learning gains, rejecting the null hypothesis. Passive standard lecture sends facts, but it has a lower instructional efficiency than tailored offline brochures, which optimize cognitive gains and independent research methodology mastery. Active learning models should integrate interactive micro-learning modules and well-de-signed, offline asynchronous materials to reduce conceptual anxiety, subject-specific stress, and develop strong student research skills.