::Volume 5 ISSN 1656-8575
CONTENTS:
Assessment in the Private School Sector: The CEM Experience
Esperanza C. Buen
The Filipino Child as a Learner: A Review of Research and Prospects
Elizabeth R. Ventura
Language Use and Transfer in Mathematical Problem-Solving: Revisiting the Whorfian Hypothesis and Apprising the Medium of Instruction Issue
Allan B.I. Bernardo
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Assessment in the Private School Sector: The CEM Experience
Esperanza C. Buen
Center for Educational Measurement The private education sector in the Philippines is a major field of action, making up a large proportion of the schooling population. It was on account of their need for measurement and related services that the Center for Educational Measurement was established. The CEM has for its mission that of helping schools improve their programs through the use of assessment and research. It has sought to attain this through the development of indigenous measures for scholastic achievement, career guidance and admissions to various training programs. The management and monitoring of its testing services through a centralized testing program in which schools become members, utilize the tests and actively work for the improvement of their programs. To make data meaningful and useful to schools has been a major concern of the CEM. It therefore continues to provide assistance to its members by way of instructional and advisory services for data interpretation, teaching interventions and research.
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The Filipino Child as a Learner: A Review of Research and Prospects
Elizabeth R. Ventura
University of the Philippines This paper reviews relevant empirical research in the discipline of child psychology in the Philippines, relates their findings to the educational process and identifies possible areas for further research which can lead to a better understanding of the Filipino Child as a learner.
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Language Use and Transfer in Mathematical Problem-Solving: Revisiting the Whorfian Hypothesis and Apprising the Medium of Instruction Issue
Allan B.I. Bernardo
University of the Philippines A research approach is suggested to investigate the medium of instruction issue. The approach is based on the weak version of Whorf’s linguistic determinism which states that variations in lexical, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of language influence thought. The approach is used to study the observation that people have a difficult time expressing in Filipino material that they have learned in English. This paper looks into the role of language use in the transfer of information in problem solving in math. Earlier studies have shown that language-based representations of problems affect performance in math word problems and that problem-specific information plays an important function in transfer. Based on these studies, it was predicted that transfer of information would be better when the language use to study the problems is the same as that used in the transfer test. The results of one experiment support the hypothesis and are discussed in terms of the Whorfian hypothesis and the medium of instruction issue.
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