Malayan Colleges Laguna – Senior High School

A CORRELATION STUDY ON THE PERCEPTIONS AND PERFORMANCES OF

SELECTED GRADE 12 NON-ABM STUDENTS TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP
COURSE IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Peciller, Francine Angela U.

The expansion of educating people in terms of
Entrepreneurship program in Senior High School is the best way to
introduce the students in the Business World for future
opportunities contrary on their major fields. The purpose of this
study is to share and explore the significant relationship between
the perception and performance of the grade 12 non-ABM students
towards the implementation of Entrepreneurship course in Senior
High School program. A correlation study was conducted on grade
12 non-ABM students of Malayan Colleges Laguna.
INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship is the act of making a business or businesses
whereas building and scaling it to produce a profit (Ferreira, 2019). The
Philippines is a difficult environment for starting and growing a new business.
In any case, for developing countries just like the Philippines, business is the
foremost compelling way to curb destitution particularly in distant flung
communities (Masigan, 2018). In expansion, according to Rizal Reyes (2018)
against the backdrop of different growth opportunities brought by a moving
forward economy and connectivity, more millennials are beginning their own
ventures. That is why, it is very important for the youth to improve their
knowledge and understanding in Entrepreneurship program because being an
Entrepreneur is not only for Business related strands or ABM students, but it is
for everyone to achieve future success.

METHODOLOGY
This study is a quantitative approach with a descriptive
method which used Survey Research Design, this method attempts to
collect quantifiable information to be used for statistical analysis of the RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
population sample. The data collection conducted only for non-ABM The results showed that there is really a significant
relationship between the perceptions and performance of the respondents
Grade 12 students who have already taken their Entrepreneurship
through having a detailed data analysis of the survey questionnaires for the
course. Correlation analysis is used to study the strength of a perception and given ENT04 final grade for the performance.
relationship between two, numerically measured, continuous variable.
PERCEPTION
The formulas that were used for this study are t-test for the
A. Content
respondents' performance and Pearson-r for the correlation of
The respondents got a grand mean of 3.30 which is interpreted as
Perception and performance of the respondents.
Strongly Agree that the content and syllabus of their Entrepreneurship
course has the ability to develop their skills regarding
Entrepreneurship and it helps to provide better learning outcomes.
B. Students/Learners
The respondents got a grand mean of 3.13 which is interpreted as
CONCLUSION Agree that the they are prepared and ready to learn Entrepreneurship
Based on the results and findings that mentioned course.
in the study, the corresponding conclusions were derived: C. Instructors/Teachers
The respondents got a grand mean of 3.23 which is interpreted as
1. That the selected grade 12 non-ABM students as reflected on Agree that their instructor/teacher is credible and reliable when it
the survey questionnaire results, have shown an output classified comes to teaching his/her lessons accordingly.
as Very Good as an overall perception towards the implementation D. Learning Environment
of the Entrepreneurship course in Senior High School and the The respondents got a grand mean of 3.11 which is interpreted as
students Strongly Agreed that learning Entrepreneurship course Agree that the learning environment inside and outside the campus
truly shaped their character and developed their skills. helped them study and understand the said course.
E. Overall Impression
2. That the selected grade 12 non-ABM students as reflected in the The respondents got a grand mean of 3.16 which is interpreted
given ENT04 final grades, have shown that most of the students as Good, the implementation of Entrepreneurship course truly
attained high grades in their ENT04 course while some students developed their skills as well as knowledge when it comes to business
have low final grade outcomes. However, the mean grade for all matters.
the grade 12 non-ABM respondents resulted to 90.13 which means
that these grades represented the final outcome of the students' SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND
assessments in ENT04 as well as their overall performance that PERFORMANCES TOWARDS ENT04 COURSE
indicates a great performance.
PERCEPTION- PEARSON R
3. That the grade 12 non-ABM students' perception towards PERFORMANCE COMPUTED CORRELATION
Entrepreneurship course greatly affects their respective CONTENT/SYLLABUS 0.508 Positively Moderate Correlation
performance which is pertaining to their individual grades.
Therefore, there is significant relationship between the perception STUDENTS/LEARNERS 0.422 Positively Moderate Correlation
and performance of students towards Entrepreneurship program
in Senior High School. INSTRUCTORS 0.662 High Correlation

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 0.425 Positively Moderate Correlation

ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENT 0.422 Positively Moderate Correlation

REFERENCES:
OVERALL IMPRESSION 0.525 Positively Moderate Correlation
Masigan, A. J. (2018, January 30). Raising the Next Generation of
Entrepreneurs. Retrieved from Business World:
https://www.bworldonline.com/raising-next-generation-entrepreneurs/