Teachers' Professional Status: It's Relation to Pupils' Performance in National Achievement Test (NAT)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teacher's professional status means the inputs given to teachers such as: position or rank, educational attainment, trainings attended and length of service. Furthermore, it seeks to establish whether the inputs given to teachers are translated into pupils' performance.

Documents about teacher's professional status and the NAT results for the year 2014 -2015 were analyzed. It used statistics about correlation to measure the relationship between the variables and determine which among the teacher's professional status variables are good predictors of pupils' performance in NAT.

METHODS

Descriptive design was appropriate in describing the level of educational attainment, seminars attended, position and length of service of the participants. The correlational design was used to determine the significant relationship of the mentioned participants' professional status and the NAT result.

RESULTS

1. Teachers' training, educational attainment and length of service were related to NAT performance of pupils

Among the professional status variables, teachers training and seminars attended were significantly related to NAT performance.

Good predictors of NAT performance were training, educational attainment and teacher’s length of service.

DISCUSSIONS

The professional status of the teachers in the municipality of Noveleta were as follows: majority of the teachers around 49% were Teacher I, 13% were Teacher II, 31% were Teacher III and 6% were Master Teachers and Head Teachers. Educational attainment of teachers is mostly bachelor’s degree, barely 3% have master’s degree and others are presently enrolled in the masteral program. It was noted that teachers in Noveleta have basic educational attainment.Most of the teachers were trained and have attended more than 7 times training. The level of training is high. Thirty three percent (33%) do have 1 to 3 years of teaching experience while 29% do have more than 10 years of teaching experience.

Although three of the teachers' professional status were related to pupils' NAT performance, training was noted to be significantly related and found to be a good predictor of the NAT performance.