Influence of Senior High School Skills on Occupational interest of Students in Modeling School of Region XII, Philippines

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

A skill is a person's primary foundation for him to be inspired and become happy while doing something for a living. Without mastery of skills, a certain individual will most probably be inefficient in his job.

METHODS

This study used a descriptive-evaluative design. The respondents of the study were Grade XI students of the K-to-12 program enrolled for the School Year 2014-2015. Total enumeration on modeling schools in Region XII and simple random sampling was used. The study used the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI), an instrument composed of one hundred sixty occupations scored by yes or no categorized into 11 scales which was described as realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional, self-control, masculinity-femininity, status, infrequency, and acquiescence. This study utilized descriptive statistics such as frequency, rank and percentage distribution and Analysis of Variance with extended analysis.

RESULTS

The senior high school’s most prioritized skill is electrical (EIM) while caregiving ranks the skills. On occupational interest, the acquiescence obtained the highest score while the Investigative got the lowest score. This means that majority of the respondents know how to handle themselves and are flexible enough to shift in the related vocation if the need arises. The realistic, artistic, enterprising, conventional, self-control and masculinity-femininity scales were found to be of significant influence on occupational interest, it implies that there is a high possibility that student's occupational interests are due to their skills while student skills in investigative, social, status, infrequency, and acquiescence scales found to be of no significant influence on occupational interest. The results show that high school skills of Grade 11 students had nothing to do with their occupational interest.

DISCUSSIONS

The main issues, problems, and concerns of students are lack of financial support from parents with a frequency of 128 while some other concerns such as lack of teacher's skills, late and absences of teachers got the lowest frequency. On the other hand, issues, problem, and concerns of the school administration itself is student's absenteeism while the lowest are drop-outs. This implies that students really need guidance from their parents to boost confidence in the real-life scenario.