The Role of Reflective Reminder Notes with Commitment form in Addressing Malpractice in Module Completion of Pupils: An Action Research

This study is a participatory action research that aims to address the problem of malpractice among parents in completing the modules of their Grade 5 children. In collection of data, the researcher employed observation, frequency counting, and simple interview from purposively selected parents who were the participants of this study. These were parents who were found to be the ones answering the modules of their children. After a week of returning the modules, these 11 parents were closely monitored and when modules were checked, it was found out that seven parents (63.5%) have refrained themselves from answering the modules and four parents still part of modules were done. On the next week, there were no longer parents who answered the modules of their children. Out from interview conducted from these parents, reasons why they were doing the learning tasks for their children were: they feel pity for their children because there are many modules to be answered and their children were lazy and uninterested. These two main reasons led these parents to deciding that they don’t want their children fail in the school,