Country: Philippines
Title: Textbook Project.
Institution: Bureau of Elementary Education. Instructional
Materials Corporation. EDPITAF.
Objectives: To improve the quality of basic education through
the provision of textbooks and other learning
materials for all subjects in the public
elementary and secondary schools maintaining
textbook-pupil ratios of 1:2 and
1:1,respectively.
Methodology: The Project includes the reprinting of revised
editions of basic textbooks. It also would
develop and produce quality and relevant basic
textbooks to support the new elementary and
secondary curriculums. Textbooks produced under
the Project and distributed free-of-charge on a
loan basis to all public schools on at textbook
to pupil ratio of 1:2 for elementary and 1:1 for
secondary. The project likewise include the
training of teachers and administrators on the
use of the textbooks produced. An evaluation of
the effects of the Project textbooks on pupil
learning achievement will likewise be made.
Background: The Textbook Project of the DECS was launched by
the Educational Development Projects Implementing
Task Force (EDPITAF) on July 1, 1976 under Loan
No.1224T with the creation of the implementing
unit, the Textbook Board Secretariat (TBS). On
June 13, 1979 pursuant to LOI No. 893,
supervision was transferred to TBS. With the
launching of MECS-PRODED in 1982, the Project was
financed by the Elementary Education Sector Loan,
No. 2030-PH. Pursuant with implementation of
Executive Order No. 806 issued on May 1982, TBS
was replaced by the Instructional Materials
Corporation (IMC). To enable IMC to discharge
its functions efficiently and ensure the public
school system with a continuing supply of
textbooks and other instructional materials, the
President issued LOI 1489 on December 10, 1989
which things ordered, among other things, that
all purchases of instructional materials by the
DECS and local authorities shall be made directly
with IMC.
Expected Outcomes: Development, printing, and delivery of
instructional materials to elementary school
pupils, an average of 11 million copies per year
during the project period (1982-86) to maintain
1:2 textbook-pupil ratio at the elementary school
level. 2. A total of 6 million copies will be
printed and distributed annually to about 4,000
public high schools all over the country. In
addition, about 2,5 million books will be printed
annually for the private high schools. 3.
Construction of 80 provincial wrehouses. 4.
Training of elementary and secondary teachers on
the proper use of textbooks.
Results to Date: 1. Textbook Distribution from 1978-1989 as
follows: REGION ELEMENTARY
SECONDARY. NCR 11643575
998786. I 10311526
565550. II 7019897
323720. III 13866465
714098. IV 17849529
977608. V 11563935
639478. VI 14189955
1092012. VII 10937159
484650. VIII 9951841
617880. IX 8273391
403200. X 9900602
448780. XI 8902852
487780. XII 8186478
516707. CAR 913756
159878. 2. Reorientations of teachers and
administrators were completed in the elementary
level. 3. Construction of provincial warehouses
were completed.
Citations: Project Development and Evaluation Division, An
Assessment of the Five Year Development Plan
(1983-87), OPS, DECS, Manila: 1983, 1984,
1988, 1986, 1987, 1988. Assessment of
the DECS Annual Plan, CY 1989. OPS, DECS,
Manila: 1990.
Commencement Date: 1977. Duration: 1978 to 1994.
Completion Date: 1994.
Descriptors: Textbooks
Budget: 12482000.
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