Home Visitation Effectiveness on Students’ Academic Performance During COVID-19 Pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional classroom instruction is being displaced with online learning. So the students are learning alone, without their parents or elders. Like home visits, schools undertake interventions to ensure that students continue to study and receive a quality education. This study on the effectiveness of the home visitation program on the academic performance of grade seven students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study revealed that the majority of students were thirteen years old, male, their parents’ occupations were fishing and farming, and with four siblings in the family. They have just a satisfactory academic performance across the different learning areas. However, there were problems encountered that have been identified by the parents and students in the implementation of home visitation such as the poor attitude and motivation towards studies of the learners, poor foundation skills, and family-related problems. The students and parents both agreed on the level of effectiveness of the home visitation intervention program. Lastly, the study disclosed that there was no statistically significant difference in perceptions of the effectiveness of the home visitation intervention program between students and their parents. Keywords: distance learning, home visitation, Challenge DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-5-07 Publication date: February 28th 202