Home⇛Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal⇛vol. 18 no. 5 (2024)

Edpuzzle App: A Reading Remediation Tool for Grade 4 Struggling Readers

Francis Fabillar | Junge B. Guillena

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Reading has always been valued as a source of knowledge across all cultures and age groups. Men can have meaningful lives and contribute to society as a result, regardless of their generation. This makes reading crucial to man's existence. Reading has always been a learning tool; thus, it is taught in schools from the very beginning of schooling. The goal of this study is to help students' reading comprehension while also evaluating Edpuzzle App's efficacy as a reading intervention tool for struggling readers in grade 4. The study utilized quasi-experimental using one-group pretestposttest single group design was used in this investigation. The research environment of this study was Sta. Filomena Central School, located in Barangay Sta. Filomena.It has 61 teachers and has a total number of 1807 learners. The study found out that before the utilization of Edpuzzle App, the reading comprehension levels of most of the pupils were under frustration. It was established in this study that there was a match in the inclusion criterion of getting the participants from the category of struggling learners. This match provided an authentic environment to the study and an authentic basis of its result.



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