Profile, Career Choices, Skills Assessment, and Perceived Curriculum Efficacy of Senior High First Batch Graduates (SY 2017-2018) of Trece Martires City Senior High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

TMCSHS is a newly built school that has a total of 677 graduates for SY 2017-2018. Trece Martires City Senior High School, as a stand-alone school, may be one of the largest schools in Cavite Province that can produce a number of graduates. With this, the study developed an instrument suitable to assess the SHS K12 curriculum. Thus, this paper mainly attempted to determine the profile, career exits, choices, skills assessment and perceived curriculum efficacy of the Senior High First Batch Graduates Trece Martires City Senior High School

METHODS

This paper used a descriptive design to assess the SHS curriculum as perceived by TMCSHS first batch graduates. Descriptive statistics such as mode, weighted mean and frequency counts were used to analyze data. From the computed sample size, convenience and networking sampling techniques were used. The proportionate sampling technique was applied so that each strand had equal representatives. A total of 230 participants answered the questionnaires designed by Inductivo and Velasco (2018) for profiling while an adapted questionnaire from Ramos (2011) for curriculum efficacy was modified for the purposes of this study.

RESULTS

Majority (90%) of the SHS graduates pursued college education at which 6 percent engaged in part time jobs. Others (10%) were fully-employed and/or seeking for fulltime employment. Graduates acquired necessary skills (computer and team work) for employment and higher education thus allowing them to appreciate k12 curriculum. In fact, K12 equipped graduates to write technical reports, memo and letters that they used in their jobs. Curriculum was viewed adequate and sufficient providing them both knowledge and skills to become middle-skilled persons. Also, a handful of them became entrepreneurs.

Graduates had high regard to their teachers as majority of them strongly agreed on faculty's high competence in teaching. In fact, no negative evaluation was noted about teacher's performance. However, it should be noted that lack of modules, books, and others were lacking. Immersion, as integral part of K12 curriculum, had great impact on graduates' current employment.

DISCUSSIONS

This paper shows empirical data of how K12 has impacted its products. It delineates both positive and constructive evaluations of the K12 curriculum which may serve as bases for K12 revisions and improvements.