School-Based Management (SBM) on Curriculum Development for Literacy and Numeracy: Basis for an Intervention

Abstract

School-Based Management (SBM) plays an important role in curriculum development by empowering schools to make collaborative decisions that improve student outcomes. However, despite various programs under SBM, challenges in students’ literacy and numeracy development persist, prompting this study.This study aims to determine the level of effectiveness of the School-Based Management (SBM) on curriculum development for literacy and numeracy. This study utilized a quantitative method using a descriptive correlational research design. The findings showed that curriculum development for literacy and numeracy, including integration and assessment, was highly evident. Literacy and numeracy were integrated across subjects and reflected in student assessments. However, curriculum development related to instructional materials and resources was only moderately evident and had the lowest rating, indicating a need for improvement to better meet learners’ needs. The result of the findings also revealed that the level of effectiveness of SBM implementation for literacy and numeracy, along with all the aforementioned indicators falls under the very much effective result. This indicates that, these indicators were truly be a great help in improving the curriculum and to increase the level of effectiveness of the SBM implementation. The result of the findings also shows that there is a significant relationship between the status of curriculum development for literacy and numeracy and the level of effectiveness of SBM implementation. The result of the findings brought the researcher an idea to proposed an intervention. This proposed intervention is entitled “Literacy and Numeracy Enhancement Through Strategic Use of Instructional Materials and Resources”. It is a program containing 5 phases of different activities. These activities will be implemented to enhance the literacy and numeracy skills of the learners with the proper utilization of the learning materials and maximizing the available resources on the community.