Evaluation of Multisensory Instructional Material Package for Elementary Learners

Development and effective utilization of learning materials to address the needs of individual learners necessitates 21st century educators to become effective teacher to support multisensory learning. Objectively, this study evaluated the acceptability, usefulness and appropriateness of multisensory instructional material package for elementary learners. The study employed design and development research method. In evaluating the learning materials, descriptive-comparative method was employed. A total of fifty seven (57) respondents broken down into forty seven (47) student teachers and twenty (20) public elementary school teachers were the evaluators of the study. There were sixteen (16) multisensory instructional materials constructed which can be used in all the subject areas of elementary curriculum. Results of the study exposed that the multisensory instructional materials were acceptable, useful and appropriate to be used in the elementary classroom. Test of difference showed that teacher- evaluators perceived higher evaluation on the usefulness of the materials than the student teacher- respondents. Comments and suggestions were offered by the teacher-evaluators to improve the different instructional materials for enhancement and improvement. It is recommended that different instructional materials may serve as guide for other teachers to develop their own teaching materials and testing the effectiveness of each learning material should be conducted.

Keywords— multisensory instructional materials, elementary learners, learning styles, design and development