Development of Interactive Learners' Packet in Teaching Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

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This study aimed to determine the different levels of evaluation of Senior High School Social Science Teachers and Information and Communication Technology Teachers on the Developed Interactive Learners? Packet in teaching Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics in public and private Senior High Schools in Santa Cruz District, Division of Laguna. Specifically, the study attempted to answer the questions; 1. Determine the evaluation in the component of Interactive Learner?s Packet in terms of; 1.1 objectives; 1.2 content; and 1.3 assessment; 2. Determine the evaluation of the characteristic of the Interactive Learner's Packet in terms of; 2.1 accessibility; 2.2 user-friendly; 2.3 interactivity; and 2.4 structure? 3. Determine the significant difference in evaluating the developed Interactive Learner's Packet components; 4. Determine the significant difference in evaluating the character of the developed Interactive Learners' Packet. The study employed a descriptive research method. The total population sampling technique was used to identify the 72 public and private secondary school teachers as the respondents of this study. Adapted Survey Questionnaire was used as the research instrument to gather the information concerning the statement of the problem. The evaluation level of the Social Science and ICT Teachers on the Components of Interactive Learners? Packet gathered an overall mean of 3.89 for objectives, 3.77 for the content from the Social Science Teachers and 3.59 and 3.45 from the ICT Teachers which were interpreted both as Extremely Agree, respectively. However, it is noticeable that the third component - assessment resulted to Social Science teachers giving a higher rating mean of 3.78 with an interpretation of ?extremely agree? compared to 3.34 which interpreted as ?agree? from the ICT teachers. The overall weighted mean on the three characteristics? user friendly, interactivity and structure got a highest mean of 3.84, 3.94 and 3.80 which interpreted as ?extremely agree? from the Social Science Teachers while an overall mean of 3.79, 3.58 and 3.72 was from the ICT teachers which also interpret as ?extremely agree?. On the other hand, on the first characteristics as to accessibility, the overall weighted mean of 3.68 was from the Social Science Teachers with an interpretation of ?extremely agree? while an overall mean of 3.39 from the ICT teachers was interpreted as ?agree?. Results showed that there is significant difference on the level of evaluation between Social Science teachers and ICT teachers from both public and private Senior High Schools in the characteristics and components of the developed Learner?s Packet in terms of its objectives, content, assessment, accessibility, and interactivity. The results also showed that the evaluation of the teachers with the components? user friendliness and structure of the learner?s packet have no significant difference. Therefore, it is concluded that the developed interactive learner?s packet is very accessible, the content is suitable, and it?s very interactive to the senior high school learners and teachers, and a budget-friendly learning material in today?s new normal set-up, and it can be considered as a supplementary learning material in teaching Understanding Culture, Society and Politics.