Anti-Robredo test items put spotlight on DepEd’s module production process

Once the teachers are done writing the modules for the lessons assigned to them, they will submit their work to their respective education program supervisors (EPS). The EPS will then assign the submitted module to a subject matter expect – usually a principal or a department head serving under the division.

After the content and language validation process, the module will be returned to the writers if revisions are needed. When the suggested changes have been implemented, the module will be submitted again to the EPS who will then assign it to a layout artist and illustrator.

In this particular instance, DepEd Manila admitted that the module “did not go through (their) conformance review—as it should—hereby placing mechanisms that should be followed in next productions, if any.” It also added that the writer of this particular module has already died.

The writer cannot be solely blamed for this fiasco. His or her superiors, whether at the school or division level, were apparently negligent as well because they gave their sign off to the module’s release even without thoroughly reviewing its content. Someone somewhere obviously did not do his or her assigned job.