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Tracer Study: The Status of Grade 10 Completers

In Makiling Integrated School
SY 2016-2017

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the

Practical Research II

A Research Presented to the Faculty of the Senior High School of

MAKILING INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Calamba City

Noprada, Ma. Gemille

Quiatchon, Leonardo
Sabaybay, Arhny Jane
Tuyay, Jiemer Earl

March 2018

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Acknowledgements

The researchers acknowledged all respondents who participated in the survey.

They also thanked Ms. Angelyn Natividad and Mrs. Helen Malabanan for providing

the information regarding the list of students who are needed in the study. They also

thanked Mrs. Maria Renee Rose A. Elarco for guiding and teaching them while

conducting the research.

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Abstract

The researchers aimed to identify the status of the Grade 10 completers of

Makiling Integrated School in School Year 2016-2017. The result was statistically

measured through percentage and frequency.

This study used a descriptive-quantitative research design and the tool used is

a research-made survey questionnaire. The survey questionnaire was given to the

target sample of the study which is the grade 10 completers in School Year 2016-

2017. The researchers gathered information and responses by sending them a message

on social media.

In the research findings, the researchers identified the students who continue

and did not continue senior high school and the reason behind the decision. They also

found out that there are students who transferred to other school specifically in

private school and colleges. They are able to identified the things that influence it.

Since there is a downfall while conducting the study the researchers recommended to

improve and develop the study to make it more reliable.

(Keywords: Grade 10 Completers, Status, Track, Reasons)

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Table of Content

CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND……………….1

Introduction……………………………………….……………1
Background of the Study……………………….………………3
Conceptual Framework…………………….…………………..4
Statement of the Problem………………………………………5
Significance of the Study………………………………………6
Scope and Limitation of the Study……………………………..7
Definition of Terms…………………………………………….8
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE………………….10
CHAPTER II RESEARCH METHODOLOGY……………………………13
Research Design……………………………………………….14
Respondents of the Study……………………………………...15
Research Instrument…………………………………………...16
Research Procedure……………………………………………17
Statistical Treatment of Data…………………………………..18
CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION
OF DATA…………………………………………………...19

CHAPER V SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary………………………………………………………..
Conclusion……………………………………………
Recommendations………………………………………

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List of Tables

Table I Frequency of respondents who continue SHS and Not………………..18

Table II Frequency of respondents who studied in Public and Private………….19

Table III Frequency of chosen track of the respondents …………………………20

Table IV Frequency of respondents who studied in Public School and

choose to stay at MIS……………………………………………………..21

Table V Frequency of Reasons why the Respondents stayed at MIS ……………22

Table VI Frequency of respondents why they transferred ………………………...23

Table VII Frequency of respondents’ decision in choosing school that affected

by voucher program……………………………………………………...25

Table VIII Frequency of respondents’ decision in choosing school that affected

by voucher program ……………………………………………………..…26

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List of Figures

Figure I The Status of Grade 10 Completer………………………………………...4

Figure II Percentage of respondents who continue SHS and not…………………..18

Figure III Percentage of respondents who studied in public and private...…………19

Figure IV Percentage of chosen track of the respondents….………………………20

Figure V Percentage of respondents who studied in Public and stayed at MIS…...21

Figure VI Percentage of Reasons why the Respondents stayed at MIS……………22

Figure VII Percentage of respondents why they transferred….……………………24

Figure VIII Percentage of respondents decision in choosing school that

affected by voucher program…………………………………………...25

FigureIX Percentage of reason of respondent why they stop schooling …………26

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Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

According to Department of Education, Philippines is the last country in Asia

with a 10-year pre-university cycle. This is the reason why the DepEd implemented

the K-12 basic education that consists of Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High

School and Senior High School. The new curriculum recognized standard for students

and professionals. SHS consists of grade 11 and 12. Both public and private schools

and even some of the colleges and universities offer Senior High School. SHS offers

a track such as Academic, Sports, Technical Vocational and Arts and Design.

(www.deped.gov.ph/k-to-12/faq)

The government also offers a voucher program for all grade 10 completer

nationwide. This will give them a chance to avail and study in a private school. The

value of a voucher will lessen the enrollment or tuition fees. (www.deped.gov.ph/k-

to-12/voucher-program)

Makiling Integrated School offers a strand such as Genera; Academic Strand

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(GAS), Humanities and Social Science (HUMSS), Accountancy Business and

Management (ABM), Electrical Installation Maintenance (EIM), Home Economics

(HE) and Electronic Product Assembly and Servicing (EPAS).

Student’s decision in choosing to continue study or stop, some students tend to

transfer out because of financial issue, social issue and accademic pressure.

(www.google.com/amp/10-commo-reasons-why-student-transfer) According to

Jordan (1999), a student is pushed out when adverse situations within the school

environment and in home lead to consequences ultimately resulting in dropping out.

This study aims to determine the status of grade 10 students SY 2016-2017 of MIS

if they continue studying or not or if they transfer. The researchers also aim to know

the reason behind it.

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Background of the study

According to Department of Education, Senior High School covers the last

two years of the K-12 curriculum which includes grade 11 and 12. A student will go

through a core curriculum and subjects under of a track their choose. As stated in the

law, a student who moved up or not or what we could the moving up must go through

grade 11 and 12 graduate from high school.

In 2013 Functional Literacy Education and Mass Survey(FLEMMS) survey,

one in every 10 or about four million Filipino children and youth was out of school.

According to Irvin high school students who seek transfers do so because they

want to participate in a academic program but it is not available at their school.

According to Mixon a students tends to transfer in two reason , because the students

needs organized care or because a family member supplies care but lives in a or far

from their school.

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Conceptual Framework

The conceptual shows the variables of the study which is the tatus of grade 10

completer SY 2016-2017

Grade 10
completers of
Makiling
Integrated
School in SY The Status of the
2016-2017  Conduct Garde 10
Completers of
 Student’s  Analyzing Makiling
Status data/result Integrated
through School SY
 The Reason survey and 2016-2017 are
of the questionnai resoluted and
Student re decisive
why they
transfer

Figure 1

Figure II. The conceptual framework shows The Status of Grade 10 Completer

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Statement of the Problem

The purpose of this study is to trace the grade 10 completer of Makiling

Integrated School to gather information about the journey they choose after the

completion. At this stage of research, the researchers will be able to know if the target

respondent decided to stop or pursue the another level of education which is Senior

High School (SHS). The following questions will help the researchers to gain insights

from them:

1. What are the status of the respondent?

2. What are the reasons of the respondent to transfer/stay out of schooling.

3. What are the factors may influence left to the respondent to

transfer/stay/out of schooling?

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Significance of the Study

The result of this study will greatly benefits to the following:

 Administrator - The result of this study will greatly benefit the administrator, to

know the things that they need to improve and the reasons why some students

choose to transfer and stop.

 Teachers - The result of this study will greatly benefit the teacher to identify the

reasons why some students choose to tranuture resfer and stop.

 Parents - The result of this study will greatly benefit the parents to distinguish

the possible characteristics of a school that their child wants to study.

 Future researcher - The result of this study will greatly benefit the future

researcher whose research is related to the study that can be a guideline or basis.

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Scope and Limitations

This study focuses only the grade 10 completer in Makiling Integrated School

SY 2016-2017 to be part of the tracer study about the status if the students if they

continue senior high school or not and if they stay in MIS wherein there are total of

176 students as the respondents of the study base on the formula.

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Definition of terms

The relevant techniques utilized in this study has been defined at this part of

the research for the researcher to easily comprehend and understand the meaning of

the words.

Decisive to solved

K-12 Curriculum The K-12 program covers 13 years of basic education within the

following key stages such as grade 1-3, 4-6, 7-10 Junior High Schoola nd Grade 11

and 12 Senior High School.

Strands Every SHS tracks consist of different strands. The Academic track consists

of Accountancy Business and Management, General Academic Strand, Humanities

and Social Science and Science and Technology Mathematics Engineer. The

Technical Vocational Track consists of strands such as Home Economics,

Information and Communication Technology, Electrical Installation Maintenance and

so on.

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Tracks SHS tracks are the specific areas of study where the grade 10 completer can

choose base their skills and ability. It is closely related to the college courses and they

fall under four disciplines namely academic, technical vocational livelihood,sports

and arts and design.

Voucher Program It is a financial assistance from the government. It is for a

qualified grade 10 completer who want to enroll in a non-Deped SHS.

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Chapter II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

A number of related literature and studies written by other authors and

researchers that is published internationally and locally is presented in this chapter. It

consists of theories and sufficient information according to the basis and factors

regarding the school choice for Senior High School to support the reliability and

validity for the study.

Foreign Literature

The allure of school choice is in part ideological. But this allure is also linked

to a very real program: the exist tremendous variation among neighborhood schools I

terms of quality and resources and access to those neighborhood schools depends on

wealth. Lower wealth families are less able to purchase or residence in catchment

(enrollment) area of a high-resourced, high-quality neighborhood schools. Breaking

the link between residence and school assignment would seem a logical way of

addressing this problem(Miron & Welner, 2002). It came from the book

entitled,”Exploring the School choice universe”.

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Local Lierature

According to the Philippine Constitution Article XIV Section 2 states that

“establish a maintain system of scholarship grants, student loan program, subsidies,

and other incentive which shall be available to deserving students in both public and

private school, especially to the under privilege. This provision allows the

Department of Education (DepEd) to offer voucher to private schools. Students who

are not already a beneficiaries of the ESC(Cruz1., 2016) of Philstar.

Voucher program gives a great impact to the decision of the grade 10

completer all over the country to transfer in private school. It is an opportunity for the

students to pursue SHS in universities, colleges, montesori and other private school.

According to DepEd, voucher program provides a financial assistance for the grade

10 completer who wished enroll in a non-DepEd school

Foreign Study

According to Mcfadden(2015) there are 5 factors to consider that influence

the college choice.

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1. Geography-location is significant in many student’s mind, either because

they want to live in a certain part of the country or because they want to live in a

certain part of financial constraints: The New York Times posted a study by the

National Association for College admission counseling that indicates that the

education level, income, and the travel experience of parents are the easiest ways to

determine how far away a student is willing to go for college.

2. Financial- A recent survey by the higher education research institute shows

that the ability of financial aid heavily influence college selection.

3. Academic Excellence and Reputation - Although student see academics is

important, they are not looking at ranking lists to judge them, according to USA

today.

4. Parents and Peers- As much as kids do not like to admit that their parents

affects their decisions, parental input does matter, according to higher consultants

Noel Levitz. As expected, students are also affected by peers but as a study by ASSD

points out that relationship is cor relational. Researchers haven’t determined whether

like-minded students tend to become friends or if friendship affects college choices.

5. Marketing - Marketing still matter of course, but it is changing. The 2014

Social Admissions Report a survey of college-bound high school students, shows that

institutions website are the most heavy accessed online resources, with 86% of

respondents listing these as very or extremely useful.

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Chapter III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Design

This study utilized a descriptive-quantitative research design since the

instrument used is a survey approach. According to De Vaus, research design refers

to the overall strategy that a researcher choose to integrate the different components

of the study in a coherent and logical way for ensuring the research will have

effective address. The researchers aimed to trace the status of the grade 10 completer

school year 2016-2017 of Makiling Integrated School. The tool used is a survey

questionnaire that provides a script for presenting a standing set of questions and

response actions. Since survey questionnaire contains the following variables such the

profile of the respondents and the reasons why they continue studying or not.

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Respondents of the Study

The G-10 completer in Makiling Integrated School were considered in the

study. They are knowledgeable enough to answer the problem posed in the present

data. They answered questionnaire that the researchers gave them, which supplies the

information that the researchers needed. The respondents were chosen using the

purposive sampling.

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Research Instrument

The instrument used is a researcher-made questionnaire checklist to gather the

needed information and data of the student’s profile. The draft of the questionnaire

was drawn out based on the status of the respondent, reason of the respondent and the

factors that may influence the respondent. In the preparation of the instrument, the

requirements in the designing of good data collection instrument were considered.

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Research Procedure

The research carried out is known as descriptive research. Thus study is all

bout the Status of G-10 Completer in Makiling Integrated School the researchers

exploit questionnaires in order to correct data. Questionnaires were made for the

investigation and further discussion about the said study.

The researchers examined the G-10 completer through survey forms. The

draft of the survey forms were drawn out based on the status of the respondent, reason

of the respondent, and the factors that may influence respondents to transfer, stay or

stop schooling.

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Statistical Treatment of Data

The data gathered were presented in survey form through checklist. The

surveys are generally viewed to answer the specific question from the said data. The

appropriate statistical treatment was used to analyze the following data is percentage

and frequency.

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Chapter IV

PRESENTATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

Table I. Frequency of respondents who continue SHS and Not

YES 108

NO 4

Figure II. Percentage of respondents who continue SHS and not

The graph shows percentage of the respondents who continue SHS an not wherein

96.43% who said yes and 3.37% who said no.

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Table II. Frequency of respondents who studied in Public and Private

Public 47

Private 61

Figure III. Percentage of respondents who studied in public and private

The graph shows the percentage of the respondents who studies in public and private,

wherein private got 56.48% of enrollees while public got 43.52% enrollees.

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Table III. Frequency of chosen track of the respondents

HUMSS 22

ABM 17

Arts and Design 0

GAS 10

TVL 44

STEM 15

Sports 0

Figure IV. Percentage of chosen track of the respondents

The graph shows the percentage of the chosen track of the of the respondents,

wherein TVL has the greatest percent with 40.74% while Arts

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and Design and Sports has the lowest with 0%. While other tracks such as HUMMS,

GAS, ABM, and STEM got the percentage that is ranges from 20 % to 9%.

Table IV. Frequency of respondents who studied in Public School and

choose to stay at MIS

YES 47

NO 0

Figure V. Percentage of respondents who studied in Public and stayed at MIS

The graph shows that all of the respondents who studied in public stayed in MIS at

the same time.

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Table V. Frequency of Reasons why the Respondents stayed at MIS

Distance 22

Uniform 16

Financial 21

Other reason 0

Figure VI. Percentage of Reasons why the Respondents stayed at MIS

The Pie Graph shows the percentage of reasons why they stay at MIS, wherein

distance got highest percentage with 46.81%, second is the financial with 44.68%,

last is the uniform with 34.04%.

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Table VI. Frequency of respondents why they transferred

Facilities 25

Activities 16

Schedule 34

Teachers 2

Uniform 8

Track/Strand 28

Peers 31

Other Reason

Family 1

New Environment 1

New Experience 3

Distance 1

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Figure VII. Percentage of respondents why they transferred

This pie graph shows the reason why the students transferred out in other school. The

most number of reason is schedule with 45.90% while the lowest is teachers with the

percentage of 3.28%. While others such as facilities, track/strand,activities, uniform,

and peers got the percentage that is ranges from 50% to 13%.

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Table VII. Frequency of respondents’ decision in choosing school that

affected by voucher program

YES 44

NO 17

Figure VIII. Percentage of respondents decision in choosing school that affected

by voucher program

The pie graph shows the influence of voucher program to the decision of the

respondents who studied in private school which 72.13% response yes while 27.87%

response no.

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Table VIII. Frequency of reason of respondent why they stop schooling

Financial 4

Labor 1

Family Problem 0

Other Reason 0

Figure IX. Percentage of reason of respondent why they stop schooling

The bar graph shows the percentage of the reasons of the respondents why they stop

schooling, wherein financial got the highest percentage with 100%, while family

problem got the lowest with 0%. and the labour with 25%.

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Chapter V

SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Summary of Findings

The purpose of this study is to trace the student and identify their status. The

researchers used survey questionnaire to gather information from the target

respondents. The researchers only gathered a responses from 112 respondents. In the

result, it showed that there are 108 students who continue Senior High School and

four students who did not. The highest number of chosen track is in Technical

Vocational Livelihood and the lowest chosen track is in Arts and Design and Sports

track.

On the other hand, there are 61 students who transferred to another school and

the rest are in public. The highest number of respondents said that their decision in

choosing school was influenced by the offering of voucher system, they are the

students who transferred in private schools. Those respondents who studied in public

school stayed at the MIS. Out of 116 respondents that the researcher able to

encountered, there are four individual who stop schooling due to lack of financial

assistance ans support.

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Conclusion

This research elicited information from the grade 10 completers in Makiling

Integrated School (MIS) in School Year 2016-2017 regarding to their status and the

reasons behind it. The most number of chosen track is in the track of Technical

Vocational specifically, ICT or Information and Communication Technology.

The number one reason why the students transferred is the schedule of

classes. Facilities and Track is the reason of some of the respondents. While the

reason of the students who stayed at MIS is the distance of their home from school. It

also showed that the voucher program influenced the decision of the respondents to

transfer and decide where they will study. The reason why the students did not

continue SHS is because of lack of financial support and one of them also answered

due to early employment.

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Recommendations

In this descriptive-quantitative research, the researchers are aiming for further

improvement since the study did not reach the target sample due to lack of responses

from the target respondents. For the future researchers, the researchers suggested to

continue the study and as much as possible gather information from all grade 10

completers in order to make the study more reliable and credible. For the School

Administrators, the researchers suggested to improve the facilities and schedule of

students and add a track and strand for the next senior high school students since

track and strand is next to the highest most number of reasons why they transfer.

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Appendices