ABSTRACT
This study assessed the e-learning and critical thinking skills of public and private Senior High School students as basis for an instructional plan in the Division of Iligan City during School Year 2019-2020. Specifically, it sought to: 1) determine the respondents’ characteristics; 2) find the level of e-learning and critical thinking skills; 3) determine students’ academic performance; 4) find out the comparison of students’ academic performance and their characteristics; 5) find the significant effect between e-learning and critical thinking skills on students’ academic performance; 6) analyze the results of focus-group discussion and in-depth interview; and 7) formulate an instructional plan based on the findings of the study.
There were 350 Senior High School student-respondents. The instruments used in gathering essential data are survey questionnaire patterned from Roper (2007) on the Development of Online Student Skills for quantitative, focus-group discussion and in-depth interview for qualitative approach. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and f-test were utilized to describe the dependent and independent variables.
Results revealed that there is a significant effect of the e-learning skills in motivation to English, Math, Science and Filipino. While, there is also a significant effect of the critical thinking skills in analysis on students’ academic performance in Mathematics and Science subjects. It is recommended that Department of Education continuously provide and sustain ICT laboratories with adequate internet connections and technical maintenance.
Keywords: e-learning, e-learning Skills, critical thinking skills, students’ academic performance, instructional plan