Rodolfo F. Olapane Jr. (Author)

Abstract

The study utilized the survey-correlational research design to investigate the relationship between Interest in short stories and creative performance of intermediate learners at a private school in Roxas City for the school year 2024 – 2025. Ninety-one (91) pupils were taken as respondents. They comprised the 3 levels of intermediate population of the school. The instruments used were the 30-item researcher-made Interest in Short Stories questionnaire and the researcher-made Creative performance exercises the most essential competencies Content Standard Performance in K-12 education is a project-based learning task where students are tasked to do a role play performance. Frequency count, percentage, mean, and standard deviation as descriptive statistical tools were utilized for data analyses. Moreover, Pearson r. set at 0.05 alpha level of significance was used to determine the relationship between the two variables. The findings of the study revealed the following: The level of interest in short stories of the intermediate learners is “Very High”; their level of creative performance is “high”. There is no significant relationship between interest in short stories and creative performance.

Keywords: interest in short stories, creative performance, intermediate learners, survey-correlational research design, Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines

DOI: http://doi.org/10.69651/PIJHSS0403431

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Olapane, R. F., Jr. (2025). Interest in short stories and creative performance of intermediate learners. Pantao (The International Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences) 4 (3),4642-4651. http://doi.org/10.69651/PIJHSS0403431

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