The use of textbook in basic statistics

The research concentrated on the use of textbook/workbook as additional teaching aid for better teaching in Basic Statistics at Cagayan State university particularly at the College of Hospitality and Industry Management at Andrews Campus, Tuguegarao City, Philippines. The study made use of descriptive correlational research. The respondents of this study were the College junior students enrolled in Basic Statistics at Cagayan State University. This study is limited to the mean performance rating of students in Basic Statistics and their perception on the use of textbook in their subject. The study was conducted in the College of Hospitality and Industry Management for second semester for the school year 2015–2016, which involved 7 blocks enrolled in the class of the researcher of the said college, making a total of 318 students.

The instrument used in gathering pertinent data and information for this study was formulated on the basis of questionnaire related from classroom situation, which consists of two parts: final grades of students and the perception on the use of textbook in their subject Basic Statistics. This study made use of Frequency counts and percentage to categorized the respondents. For the perception of students on the use of textbook in Basic Statistics, A modified Likert Scale value was assigned to score the five categories and to analyze the perception of students on the use of textbook in their subject Basic Statistics, the item mean was used. The Chi-Square Test was used to find out whether significant relationships exist between the perceptions of respondents in their performance rating in Basic Statistics. The mean performance rating of the respondents in their subject Basic Statistics is 84.11 percent. The average rating of the respondents belongs to satisfactory level, which indicates that students have learned much from their subject Basic Statistics. On the test of relationship between perception on the use of textbook and their performance rating in Basic Statistics shows that it is significant at an alpha of 0.05.