The Utilization of Jigsaw Strategy in Teaching Health among Grade 3 Students

Abstract

In this quantitative quasi-experimental research, the researchers attempted to discover the effectiveness of the Jigsaw strategy, a kind of cooperative learning, to the 25 Grade 3 students, with 16 male and 9 female, at College of San Benildo – Rizal in enhancing their learning process especially in familiarizing and understanding concepts of a particular topic (Factors that Influence Consumer’s Choice of Goods and Services) in Health, one of the components of their MAPEH subject, for the fifth week of the fourth quarter this school year 2022-2023. The researchers administered a validated 15-item pretest prior to the implementation of the Jigsaw strategy to measure their background knowledge about the said topic. During the face-to-face implementation of the Jigsaw strategy, the researchers grouped the students into two sets of groups (expert group and home group). There were five home groups and five expert groups, with five members each. Each member of the expert group was assigned with a sub-topic to study with their group mates and share what they have learned to their group mates in the home group. After two days of face-to-face Jigsaw strategy implementation, the researcher administered a validated 15-item posttest to measure the knowledge and understanding of the Grade 3 students about the topic with the use of the Jigsaw strategy. Results revealed that both male and female students’ mean scores in the posttest increased. Based on the paired t-test results, there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the Grade 3 students with the P value of < .00001. In conclusion, based on the findings presented, the Jigsaw strategy is effective in improving the Health test scores of the Grade 3 students of this study.