Career-oriented performance tasks: Effects on students’ interest in Chemistry

The samples were two intact heterogeneous sections of seventy seven (77) first year college students of a private tertiary institution taking up General Inorganic Chemistry course. The study was conducted during the Pre-Final Grading Period of Second Semester, School Year 2011-2012. The assignment of the COPT class and the TTA class were randomly selected by tossing a coin. Section CHM1B class was assigned to be the COPT class, while section CHM1A class was assigned to be the TTA class.

Thirty seven (37) students from CHM1A and thirty nine (39) students from CHM1B took the pretest, while thirty eight (38) students from CHM1A and thirty seven (37) students from CHM1B took the posttest. A total of seventy six (76) students took the pretest while seventy five (75) took the posttest.