The study effects by using learning activity package for enhancing creative skills in media literacy for lower – secondary students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were (1) to develop the learning activity package for enhancing creative skills in media literacy for lower – secondary students, (2) to compare the difference in media literacy in creative skills of lower – secondary learners before and after taught with the developed package, (3) to study learners’ satisfaction with the developed package. The sample consisted of 50 students from secondary 1 room 9 of Saint Gabriel's College selected by cluster random sampling. The research instruments consisted of (1) the learning instructional package enhancing media literacy in creative skills, (2) academic achievement test for media literacy in creative skills, (3) assessment scale for media literacy in creative skills for lower – secondary learners, and (4) scale of measuring learners’ satisfaction with the developed package. Data were analyzed using mean, and standard deviation. The differences in academic achievement and media literacy skills were tested with Dependent Sample t – test. The results of this research indicated that (1) After being taught with the developed package, the academic achievement of the sample was higher than before with a statistical significance of .01; (2) After being taught with the developed package, the media literacy of the sample was higher than before with a statistical significance level of .01, (3) the sample was satisfied with the developed package (mean=4.01, SD=0.15) and the sample had a high level of satisfaction. When the individual aspects were considered, the sample had a high level of satisfaction with the content, activity provision, measurement and evaluation. Every aspects is satisfied at a high level.