1. P R E P A R E D B Y :
JANE CHARITY A. ESTRADA
A CRITICAL EVALUATION
OF A MASTER’S THESIS

2. Teacher’s Knowledge of the Reading
Strategies and Students’ Reasoning
Skills in Relation to their
Performance in English
By Marjorie M. Alingal
Misamis University – MAED (2012)

3. ABSTRACT

4.  Main Objective: to look into
the teacher’s knowledge of the
reading strategies and students’
reasoning skills in relation to
their performance in English.

5. RESEARCH PROBLEMS
1. What is the teachers’ level of knowledge on reading strategies?
2. What is the students’ level of reasoning in terms of
interpretation, deliberation, and expression as perceived by
the students themselves?
3. What is the performance of the students in English as
reflected in their test scores?
4. Is there significant relationship between the teachers’ level of
knowledge on reading strategies and students’ level of
reasoning?
5. Is there significant relationship between the teachers’ level of
knowledge on reading strategies and students’ performance in
English?
6. Is there significant relationship between the students’ level of
reasoning skills and their performance in English?

6. Students’ Reasoning
Skills:
a. Interpretation
b. Deliberation
c. Expression
Teacher’s Knowledge of
the Reading Strategies
Fourth Year Students’
Performance in
English

7. HYPOTHESES
 HO1: There is no significant relationship between the
teacher’s level of knowledge of the reading strategies
and the students’ reasoning skills.
 HO2: There is no significant relationship between
the students’ level of reasoning skills and their
performance in English.
 HO3: There is no significant relationship between
the teacher’s level of knowledge of the reading
strategies and the students’ performance in English.

8. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 RESEARCH DESIGN:
 Descriptive Method : aimed at describing existing facts and to
provide baseline data of the three variables used
 Correlation Design
 RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS:
 Researcher-made questionnaire
 Thirty – item teacher-made test in situational forms
(corrected, modified , pilot tested, & validated)
 RESEARCH SETTING:
 Municipality of Sibutad, First Congressional District,
Division of Zamboanga del Norte

9. 100% of 4th yrPublic HS
English Teachers
50 % of the total population
of the 4th yr public students
(RANDOM SELECTION)

10.  FREQUENCY – used in determining the students’
performance in the English test according to the
categories used
 PERCENTAGE – used in determining the portion of
the respondents out of the total number.
 WEIGHTED MEAN – used in describing the
teacher’s knowledge of the reading strategies and
students’ reasoning skills.
 REGRESSION ANALYSIS – used in testing the
significant relationships among the different
variables considered in the study
STATISTICAL TOOLS UTILIZED

11. Basis for Interpretation: Reasoning Skills

12. Basis for Interpretation: Performance in English
Test

13. Teachers’ Level of Knowledge of the Reading
Strategies

14. Students’ Level of Reasoning Skills:
Interpretation

15. Students’ Level of Reasoning Skills:
Deliberation

16. Students’ Level of Reasoning Skills:
Expression

17. Students’ Level of Reasoning Skills: Summary

18. Performance of Students in English Test

19. Relationship bet. Teachers’ Level of Knowledge of
Reading Strat.& the Students’ Reasoning Skills

20. Relationship bet. Teachers’ Level of Knowledge of
Reading Strat.& Students’ Performance in Eng.

21. Relationship bet. Students’ Level of Reasoning
Skills & their Performance in English

22. Findings & Conclusions
 There is no significant relationship between the teachers’
high level of knowledge on the reading strategies and the
students average level of reasoning skills.
 There is no significant relationship between the teachers’
high level of knowledge on the reading strategies and
their good performance in the English test.
 There is a significant relationship between the students’
performance in the English test and their reasoning skills
in terms of interpretation but not in their deliberation a
expression.

23. Remarks
 The researcher made use of appropriate statistical
treatment:
 Tabular presentations were used.
 Descriptive Statistics were used (Weighted Mean, Frequency ,
Percentage, etc)
 T-test, regression analysis were also used
 A preliminary test of normality has to be made
before the t-test.
 The research problems no. 4 – 6 should be restated
so as not to be answerable by a simple yes or no.
 No value of test reliability was included.

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