Author/s: Peñonal, Irish A.

Year: 2023

One setting where gender concerns are evident is schools. This is due to a need for more understanding, challenges with application, and insufficient exposure to GAD concepts and principles. Thus, this action research aimed to upskill GAD awareness of Grade 5 pupils at Liba Elementary School for the School Year 2022-2023 by using GAD-Related Writing (GRW) Journal as an intervention. This action research utilized qualitative and quantitative methods using the methodological triangulation technique. The research design employed in the study is descriptive comparative. The primary data sources were the responses from FGD, interviews, surveys, frequency, and mean scores of pretests and posttests. The study’s results revealed that the pretest acquired an MPS of 72.85% while the posttest acquired 86.35 with an MPS difference of 13.50. Using paired t-test, the computed T-test value is 5.82, the level of significance 0.05, and the degrees of freedom 15 with its corresponding p-value in two-tailed hypothesis testing is 0.00004. The p-value was less than 0.05, indicating a significant difference between the pretest and post-test scores. These findings corroborated the pupils’ perception of using the intervention, implying an improvement in pupils’ GAD awareness using GRW Journal. Developing strategic plans is crucial in addressing the issues and challenges of implementing GAD awareness. Henceforth, this study further encouraged to craft strategic pupil activities like GAD-Related Writing (GRW) Journal that would constantly expose them to GAD concepts and principles. In that manner, GAD awareness is being upskilled.