ABSTRACT
This study focused on enhancing the performance of learners in social studies using the audio-video instructional materials to the Grade VI learners of Nagpayong Elementary School, Pasig City. The participants were the two sections of Grade VI. One group was represented as the experimental group and the other as the control group. They were chosen according to their average grades and the same mental ability. The two sections that had almost the same number of cases of forty-five (45) learners were used as respondents. The experimental research design was adapted in which a 50-item validated researcher-designed test was used as the instrument. Pre-test was administered to both groups the day before the start of the experimentation and post-test was given after the experimentation. The results revealed that learners in the experimental group who were taught using audio-video instructional materials gained higher scores in the post-test than the learners in the control group who were taught using the traditional method of teaching. Therefore, it is concluded that learners learned and performed better when exposed to the audio-video instructional materials as strategy in teaching. The study recommends the use of audio-video instructional materials as strategy in teaching social studies and other subjects as well.
Keywords: audio-video instructional materials, traditional approach, experimental group, control group
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