The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of storytelling-based anchored
instruction on sentence problem solving ability and self-regulation and mathematical
learning attitude of underachieving students in mathematics. For the research, thirty
underachieving students in mathematics were selected among those enrolled in an
alternative school situated in a selected city in a certain province. Fifteen students
were assigned in the experimental group and other fifteen students were assigned in
the control group respectively. Storytelling-based anchored instruction took place with
the experimental group four times weekly, which added up to be twenty times
throughout the research. The results from the study are shown below.
First, the experimental group who undertook the storytelling-based anchored
instruction on sentence problem solving ability outperformed in post-test compared
with the pre-test. This means that storytelling-based anchored instruction has been
effective in improving sentence problem solving ability for the experimental group.
Second, the experimental group who undertook the storytelling-based anchored
instruction on self-regulation outperformed in post-test compared with the pre-test.
This means that storytelling-based anchored instruction has been effective in
improving self-regulation for the experimental group.
Third, the experimental group who undertook the storytelling-based anchored
instruction on mathematical learning attitude outperformed in post-test compared with
the pre-test. This means that storytelling-based anchored instruction has been
effective in improving mathematical learning attitude for the experimental group.
In view of the above findings it appears to show that storytelling-based anchored
instruction is a better teaching and learning method for acquisition of sentence
problem solving ability and self-regulation and mathematical learning attitude of
underachieving students in mathematics.
The researchers on the basis of the results of the underachieving student's learning
style and educational needs and characteristics taken into account the various anchors
should be developed.