Programmed play activities: Their effects on the enhancement of self-esteem and academic performance of grade school underachievers

• Main Author: Garces, Sofia S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1984
• Subjects: Play; Activity programs in education; Underachievers; Academic achievement; Performance in children; Self-esteem; Early Childhood Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/2827
• Institution: De La Salle University

This experimental study investigates how effective programmed play activities are in enhancing self-esteem and academic achievement of underachieving children of St. Paul School, Makati. A program of play activities aimed at enhancing the self esteem and increasing the GPA of fifteen Grades IV and V students with low self esteem and academic underachievers, the Experimental Group, of St. Paul School of Makati was conducted. Another set of fifteen Grades IV and V students with low self-esteem and academically underachieving, the control group, were not exposed to the program. It was hypothesized that non-exposure to the program would result to non-enhancement of self-esteem and increase in GPA of the Control Group. The result shows that the programmed play activities enhanced the self-esteem of the Experimental group, while the control group's self-esteem did not improve. However, the GPA of both groups did not improve.