Peer Tutoring: Its Effect on the
Achievement and Attitude in Physics
Of high School Senior Students of
Naval Institute of Technology

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A Thesis
Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School
Leyte Normal University
Tacloban City

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In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree
Master of Arts in Teaching (Science)

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by

Minerva E. Sañosa
February 1996

ABSTRACT

This study attempted to assess the effects of peer tutoring on the achievement in and attitude towards Physics of high school senior students of Naval Institute of Technology, SY 1995-1996. Five high school senior students with the highest grade point average from first year to third year high school in English, Mathematics, and Science were used as peer tutors.

The subjects of the study were fifty high school senior students randomly selected and assigned into two groups, the peer tutored or experimental group and non-peer tutored or the control group. The two groups answered the achievement test in electromagnetic energy and a scale to measure attitude towards Physics before and after the conduct of study.

The result indicated that students in both groups increased their level of achievement during the study. Morever, with the use of two-tailed test, it was revealed that the level of achievement of students in the experimental group was significantly higher compared to the level of achievement of students in the control group. In like manner, the attitude of the students in both the experimental and control groups gained from their respective teaching methods. Morever, using the two-tailed test of significance, it was found out that the attitude of the students in the experimental group was