Impact Assessment of the Research-Based Community Extension Program of one of the State College in the Philippines

Regional-seminar workshop on instructional material preparation for K to 12 education is a research-based community extension program initiative conducted with 272 participants from different provinces of the Bicol Region, Philippines. The program was participated with graduating students, teachers, and academicians. The paper assessed the impact of the regional seminar workshop on instructional material development for K to 12 Education. Along with acquired knowledge, skills, and attitude in instructional material preparation and presented the utilization of the IM outputs from the  program. The study adopted the mixed method of research since it determines the impact of the implemented extension program. Data gathering instruments used questionnaires, direct observation, and interviews. The study was also quantitative and qualitative since the researchers used a questionnaire to know the impact of the program. The 135 respondents in this study were the participants and beneficiaries. of the said research-based community extension program. The data were analyzed using different statistical tools. Over three years after the seminar-workshop, 135 participants have confirmed that they have utilized. their acquired knowledge, skills, and attitude in IM development in the classroom instruction. Furthermore, 55% of the IM outputs were used for classroom instruction, 19% were improved and used for action researches and others are utilized in different ways. The results contributed to the different research contexts and investigation of impact of an extension program. The results also show that the seminar- workshop implemented last 2017 brought a positive impact to its participants and also contributed to addressing the scarcity of instructional material in different disciplines. Thus, it is recommended that further implementation of research-based extension program should be established. Furthermore, professional development for teachers should be promoted and encouraged focusing on the current technological skills the teachers needed for the flexible learning system implementation.

Keywords – extension, impact assessment, instructional preparation