Improving the Level of Awareness on Gender Sensitivity of Grade 12 Senior High School Students of Calauag National High School through Gender Sensitivity Training

Abstract

This study focused on the level of awareness of Grade 12 students of CalauagNational High School CNHS) before, during, and after the holding of Gender Sensitivity Training using the standardized pre-test and post-test. It also identified the significant differences on the level of awareness before and after the holding of the said training, and analyzes the different problems encountered by the students in relation to gender issues. A combination of the quantitative and qualitative methods was used in this study. In quantitative method, the descriptive-evaluative and descriptive-comparative were utilized through numerical analysis and in qualitative method, interview for every section/track was conducted in the school. There were two hundred fourteen (214) respondents came from different section/track. These are GAS 1 (51), GAS 2 (50), GAS 3 (49), TVL-Bread & Pastry (36) and TVL-ICT (26). Purposive and stratified samplings were used for the attainment of the objectives. Percentage, Weighted Average Mean, Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) were utilized for the accuracy of the results. Before conducting the Gender Sensitivity Training, both groups have undergone pre-test which resulted to low level of awareness. After conducting the said training, there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test; which means there is an increase in gender sensitivity awareness. The problems/gender issues were also identified from the different groups of respondents.