The Current Developments in Primary Science in The Philippine/Global Context: A SYNTHESIS

Science education in the Philippines is lacking, with only 69.21% of grade six students and 46.38% of high school students passing national achievement tests from 2010-2014 statistics. The Philippines also consistently underperforms in international surveys. The document discusses developing primary science education so that students are exposed to hands-on learning, ask questions about the world, and conduct investigations to develop problem-solving abilities. It cites literature on trends, objectives, and strategies to make science education more effective and interactive for students' learning processes. Suggestions are made to consider developments that focus on pedagogy of letting students ask questions through experience and experimentation rather than just content.

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The Current Developments in Primary Science in the

Philippine/Global context: A SYNTHESIS

Science education in our country cannot be considered as a strength. Based on 2014 statistics,
the passing rate for the national achievement test (NAT) for grade six pupils is only 69.21%. The
passing rate for high school seems far worse, with a passing rate of only 46.38% from 2010
statistics. Moreover, the Philippines consistently performs abysmally in international surveys

Science education is a serious matter, perceived as important to directions of future national

growth and development, capacities for personal and national problem solving and the creation
of humane and egalitarian societies. In the early grades, students should be exposed to science
as a “hands-on, minds on” process and encouraged to explore and raise questions about the
world around them. As they go up the grades, they should develop skills to design and conduct
investigations addressing self-, as well as teacher-generated questions, and involving identifying
and controlling variables. Through the grades, students should develop abilities to
systematically collect and organize data and communicate investigations, culminating in
abilities to formulate explanations or models based on results of investigations. This paper
consists of articles cited from different books, websites and authors of research papers about
the current developments in primary science: The importance, current trends, aims, strategies,
objectives and developments that educators and schools make, for the educational system and
learning process of the students to be more effective, interactive and comprehensive.
Education will be pointed out in the first part of this paper. Secondly, a brief historical
development of science education will be presented. Then, some factors and reasons which
can affect science education will be discussed. Finally, some suggestions for development will
be considered.

The scolars and the teachers thinks of some ways and strategies on how to teach science and
what science is needed to be taught because science has also a widescope of content and in
this years that have been building up and making the curriculum of science is somewhat
difficult to the teachers but the main idea has been brought and that is the pedagogy is not in
the content but to let the students ask questions that would be answered by experiencing ,
investigating, analysis and experimentation.