Tracking the ABM Alumni's Chosen College Program

Abstract

Senior High School (SHS) refers to Grades 11 and 12, the last two years of the K-12 program that DepEd has implemented since 2012. There are different strands that a student can apply to, such as Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM), Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Humanities and Social Sciences Strand (HumSS), General Academic Strand (GAS) etc. (Formoso, 2016). The implementation of Senior High School is to enable the students to be more prepared for their aspired college programs and to have background knowledge about it. Finishing Senior High School also allows students to study general education subjects for them to be familiarized with the specialization if they decide to pursue higher education (A Brief Overview of Senior High Strands in the Philippines, n.d.). The researchers used quantitative research in this study to acquire quantifiable data and to analyse it using a statistical technique, specifically the frequency count, because the researchers' objective is to determine the number of ABM alumni who took college programs that are related to their Senior High School strand and those who did not. The researchers used their own survey questionnaire to gather the data needed. The researchers distributed the survey questionnaires via Google forms wherein a link to the survey was individually sent to the respondents via Messenger. The Accounting course was the most commonly picked college program by the ABM alumni, with 11 respondents (26%) out of 42 currently taking it right now, followed by 6 respondents (14%) taking Marketing. Most of the respondents (85%) took a strand-related college program, while only 6 of the respondents (15%) took a non-strand related college program. Out of the target population of the researchers, which is 70 (100%) respondents, only 42 responses (60%) were received. 85.71% of the respondents took college programs that are related to the ABM strand. On the other hand, 14.26% is the population of the respondents who took college programs that are not related in the ABM strand, which shows that the majority of the respondents took college programs related to their strand.