Teaching effectiveness of Police Instructors on Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE): Basis for Capability Enhancement Action Plan

Abstract

The descriptive project evaluation research design was used to document the teaching effectiveness of Police instructors on Drug Abuse Resistance Education in selected schools in Cavite Province.  The survey questionnaire was distributed to 90 PNP instructors and 70 teachers from selected schools in the province of Cavite using stratified random sampling technique. The basic and inferential statistics were used to interpret and analyze the data gathered. The study revealed that the Effectiveness of Police Instructors Teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education to the Elementary Students of Malinta Elementary School and Olivarez College Tagaytay as to the indicators of instructor’s proficiency shows with an average weighted mean of 3.57 identify as highly effective. On the indicators under teaching strategy with an Average weighted mean of 3.49 indicating an interpretation as Effective and on the instructional support the result shows also with an average weighted mean of 3.02 as effective. It also revealed that there is no significance difference on the assessment of the two groups of respondents on the effectiveness of teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education, and as to the problems encountered by the instructors, the result revealed that all indicators were rated as serious and the computed overall weighted mean for instructor’s proficiency is 2.64, teaching strategy is 3.84 and instructional support is 3.16 thereby indicating the verbal interpretation of Serious.