Students’ Preferred Instructional Practices
Keywords:
Instructional, Practices, StudentAbstract
The main objective of this descriptive research was to find
out the students’ preferred instructional practices during the
global pandemic. The respondents were 308 students
coming from 11-course offerings enrolled during the first
semester of the academic year 2021-2022. The study was
conducted at Notre Dame of Tacurong College, Tacurong,
Sultan Kudarat Province, the Philippines. Findings showed
that the mean ratings of the eight items ranged from 2.64 to
6.24. Since ranking was used to determine the most and least
preferred instructional practices, the item with the least
mean rating is ranked 1, and the item with the highest mean
rating is ranked 8. Hence, the three most preferred
instructional practices are: Item 1, Assignments that ask
students to express what they have learned and what they
still need to learn, obtained the weighted mean of 2.64 (SD =
2.24) and interpreted as Strongly Preferred; Second is Item
3, Live sessions “zoom meetings” in which students can ask
questions and participate in discussions, got the weighted
mean of 3.31 (SD = 1.74) and interpreted as Preferred; and
the third is Item 2, Frequent quizzes or other assessments,
obtained a weighted mean of 3.44 (SD = 2.10) and
interpreted as Preferred.
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