Paper Now Available for Download via PJSSH

My paper entitled, Exploring the Nature and Affects of Student Learning in High School Algebra through Writing Exercises, which I co-authored with Dr. Lourdes Zamora, Prof. Jonny Pornel, and Dr. Aurora Fe Bautista, was published in the Philippine Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities!

It is now available for download at the UP Visayas PJSSH website.

Blue Bird, Yellow Bird

I saw a blue bird stooped
by the roadside today,
while a yellow one was flapping away.
And I wondered, 
did the yellow bird leave
because the blue one was too blue,
Or did the blue bird not follow 
because the yellow one was too yellow?

Fellow to 2014 Iligan National Writers Workshop (Also Jimmy Balacuit Awardee for Fiction, 3rd Place)

The Iligan National Writers Workshop was held last May 26-30, 2014 at the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology Campus.

Fellow for Fiction (Hiligaynon)
An article written by a co-fellow

On the Jimmy Balacuit Awards

(Photo taken by my co-fellow, Ms. Karen Ramos, during the workshop's Fellows' Night)

Infidelity

These sheets are soaked
With your love and my lust, dear.
This pillow, with her tears.

Exploring the Use of Writing in a Mathematics Classroom

UPHSI Math Instructor presents paper at ASET Conference in Changhua, Taiwan

Miss Early Sol A. Gadong, Mathematics Instructor of UP High School in Iloilo, presented her paper entitled “Exploring the Nature of Student Learning and Affects in High School Algebra through Writing Exercises” in the 29th Association of Science Education Taiwan (ASET) Annual International Conference 2013 at the National Changhua University of Education in Changhua, Taiwan on December 12 to 14, 2013.

Gadong presented the findings of her research on how writing may be employed as a means to understanding the nature of students’ learning of selected mathematical concepts and processes in High School Algebra, and the affects associated with them. 

Her paper used student responses to predetermined writing prompts to show that writing exercises are able to provide information on the type and level of students’ conceptual and procedural learning and the dimensions of affects (e.g., Enjoyment, Value, Beliefs, and Motivation) expressed by the students. 

Her paper contends that “writing exercises may enable teachers to identify faulty reasoning in mathematics that may consequently lead to effective and specific interventions.” She adds that writing activities may complement traditional forms of assessment in providing evidence of the extent of student learning.

Gadong also attended keynote speeches and parallel sessions focused on the conference theme, “Science and Mathematics Manpower Cultivation: Key Literacies for the 21st Century.” ###

*Ms. Gadong also presented her findings in the 2013 UP Visayas Student Research Conference.

Fiction Published in Dagmay

Kwentong MRT (in two parts) featured at Dagmay website.

Writing Highlights for 2012 and 2013

Fellow for Iyas National Writers Workshop, Ateneo National Writers Workshop and Fray Luis de Leon Writers Workshop.

Publication at Balay Sugidanun.

Feature article featured on Rappler.

Won an award for flash fiction.