Developmental Asset Profile of Bucal National High School Grade 9 Students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

It is very clear that the purpose of the research is to determine the building of the assets of Grade 9 students of Bucal National High School. The research was conducted after acquiring permission from the school principal, picking out the respondents and distributing questionnaires that were afterward collected to accord with the designed methodology that would bring out answers to the questions posted to only 460 students respondents.

METHODS

The Grade 9 students were requested to participate in the survey. After the selection of the respondents a set of questionnaires. The instrument was adapted from the Search Institute. The statistical methods used for the personological of the student-respondents is frequency and percentage distribution and for the asset, the building is weighted mean.

RESULTS

So generally, it means thatas students' ages increase, their assets on boundaries, constructive use of time, commitment to learning, and positive values were built accordingly. Likewise, as students' socioeconomic status gets high, their assets on support, empowerment, constructive use of time, and positive values were built accordingly.

DISCUSSIONS

As yielded in the results of the finding, the building of the assets of the respondents had something to do with the help of their parent's school, community, social media and the modern trend of education.As recommended in the research, there is a need to strengthen these assessed supports for the respondents to continue their personological engagements at home, in school, in the community, with social media.

Ascertained, the researcher has the perception that the very same respondents could furthermore be subjected to further research to find out how their assets are continuously used to enhance their values in their studies in higher K-12 classes. Solutions to present the main issues and concerns in the school could be found out.