Predictors Influencing the Track Choice of the Senior High School Students of Kapayapaan Integrated School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study was conducted for the purpose of assessing the predictors influencing the track choice of the selected senior high school students of Kapayapaan Integrated School (KIS). The predictors presumed by the researcher to influence the track choice of the respondents were some profile variables, personal preference, career outlook, academic skills and abilities, family, economic considerations, social environment, and job opportunity.

METHODS

The research design used in the study was the descriptive method with a self-constructed questionnaire as the main instrument in gathering the pertinent data. The respondents of the study involved 193 out of the 375 grade 11 pioneering students from the different tracks and strands offered by KIS. They were drawn through Slovin's formula; moreover, data were analyzed and interpreted using frequency and percentage, weighted mean, t-test, ANOVA and Chi-square.

RESULTS

The study yielded the following results; (1) personal preference, career outlook, academic skills and abilities, economic considerations, social environment, and job opportunities are predictors that influenced the track choice of the respondents. However, the family was found to be low predictor of the respondents' track choice; (2) there is significant relationship between the track choice of the respondents and the predictors that influence their choice; and (3) there are no significant differences on the respondents' assessments on the predictors influencing the track choice of the respondents when grouped according to their gender, birth order, number of siblings, favorite subject, general average grade, parents' educational attainment, parents' occupation and monthly family income.

DISCUSSIONS

The senior high school teachers need not end up doing career mentoring for the senior high school students so that those who are not yet decided with what they are taking they may shift as early as they can for them to finish the track which could prepare them in either work, business or tertiary education. The results disclosed that family is a low predictor of the track choice; however, parents/relatives should intervene as well on the decision making of their children because, at this age, teenagers like they are still confused on what they would like to be in the future.