Maritime Training to Improve the Skills and Knowledge of the Pre-Baccalaureate Maritime Students in Anselmo A. Sandoval Memorial national High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Maritime education researchers are developing excellent and evidence-based innovations that will hasten the skills and sharpen the knowledge of a good and effective maritime graduates. In this study, the researcher is searching for the importance of maritime training as an innovative way to address the problem. The researcher also wants to determine if having maritime training will greatly affect the academic performance of the Pre-Baccalaureate Maritime (PBM) Students in terms of their skills and knowledge. If this is the case, this will be the first innovation in maritime education of Anselmo A. Sandoval Memorial National High School (AASMNHS) if it will be implemented.

METHODS

This study is a quantitative in nature. It uses a purposive sampling that focuses only on the Pre-Baccalaureate Maritime Students of Anselmo A. Sandoval Memorial National High School. Moreover, it is descriptive in nature such as data sets are tallied and analyze through weighted means. On the other hand, it is also uses inferential statistics in which it uses correlational test to determine if there is a significant relationship between the level of agreement about the importance of having maritime training and the academic performance of the students.

RESULTS

The researcher found out that the training needed for the maritime students are: Advance Training in Fire Fighting, Basic Safety Training, Cargo handling and Cargo Care, Medical first Aid, Ship Simulator and Bridge Teamwork. Furthermore, it has a p-value of0.045 which is less than 0.05, which means that the level of agreement of the importance of maritime training and the academic performance (skills and knowledge) of the respondents are related with each other. Thus, the result shows that having maritime training will improve the academic performance of the students. On the other hand, the Pearson correlation coefficient r = 0.53 which implies that the respondents level of agreement about the importance of maritime training and their academic performance is moderately correlated. Hence, if the student will rate high in the level of agreement of the importance of maritime training their corresponding academic performance also will be high.

DISCUSSIONS

The result demonstrates that it is definitely a need of maritime training to the PBM students involved in maritime education of AASMNHS in order to develop their skills and knowledge in facing the Maritime Industry.