FACTORS AFFECTING THE PREFERENCES OF GRADE 10

LEARNERS ON THEIR SENIOR HIGH TRACK THE CASE

OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BUBONG, LANAO DEL SUR FOR
SCHOOL YEAR 2022-2023.

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

PRINCESS JUHANISAH G. BANOCAG

DECEMBER 2022
INTRODUCTION
 The career specializations offered by the K-12 curriculum serves as a stepping stone for the
students to plan up and act upon on their chosen career. As a Masters’ student, the Grade 10
students of SY 2022-2023, are the phase wherein they would choose their specialization that they
would take up for Senior High School. Thus, it is important to determine the specialization that
they are about to take and the factors as to why they choose the said track. Determining factors
can help guide the advantages and disadvantages of decisions. Not only that, but it can help how
to cope with said decisions. It is usually common to go along with a decision that hits people
closer to home, and it can enable people to adapt better since they are more familiar with the
decision they chose.
 The researcher will investigate and analyze the factors affecting the preferences of Grade 10
learners in choosing which academic strand to take for the upcoming academic year in Senior
High School level.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
 The theory of Donald Super which focuses on the development of life roles over the
life span with emphasis on inter-role congruence. His vocational concept as a part
of self-concept is formed; it is the driving force that establishes a career pattern one
will follow through life (Super, 1990). Vocational developmental tasks are derived
from vocational stages which provides framework for vocational behavior and
attitudes.
 David Tiedman’s “Self-Developing Approaches to Career”. Tiedman believes that
evolving ego-identity is of central importance in the career development process.
Tiedman referred to the evolving self-in-situation from the earliest awareness of self
to point at which individual becomes capable of evaluating experiences, anticipating,
and imagining future goals, and storing experiences in memory for future reference
with Tiedman’s context of Erik Erikson’s eight psychosocial crises.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
 The Rationale between these two theories is one follows a vocational
self-concept which is a driving force that establishes a career pattern
one will follow through life but there are some factors could might
altered this pattern. These factors, such as external forces (called of
armed services, economic crisis, and work setting itself) and
psychological drives (unmet needs, changing aspirations, role diffusion)
altered the career patterns of individual.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

The profile of the Gathering of R

respondents in terms of: questionnaires. E
Age C
Gender Analysis of the
O
demographic profile of
Preferred senior high the respondents. M
school strand of the M
respondents. Tallying of data in the E
questionnaire. N
Factors affecting the D
track preferences of the Identifying the factors A
grade 10 students. affecting the track T
preferences.
I
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Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of the Study

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The study aimed to determine the factors affecting the preference of Grade 10 Students in
choosing their Senior high track the case of public schools at Bubong, Lanao del sur for the school
year 2022-2023.
Specifically, it sought to answers the following questions:
1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:
 age
 gender
2. What career track would the respondents prefer to take up for senior high school?
3. What are the factors that affect the students in choosing their preferred track for senior high
school in terms of:
 personal interest
 family and relatives
 classmates and friends
 job opportunities
SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE
STUDY
Due to ethical considerations, this study is limited to all Grade 10 learners from Adiong
Memorial Sr. National High School, East Bayabao Integrated National High School Vocational
Technology and Sarip Memorial National High School which is located in the Municipality of
Bubong, Lanao del Sur. It is selected based mainly on the proximity of its location to the
researcher and on the kind of education that they offer to the students.

 This study is focused on the academic strand preferences of the Grade 10 students of
the academic year 2022-2023.This study is limited by the responses given by the sampled.
Although subject is encouraged to respond honestly and genuinely to survey questions, response
sincerity may vary.
RESEARCH DESIGN
 This research will use a quantitative descriptive design, a procedure involving the assignment of
numerical values (Zulueta, 2010).

 This study will utilize the descriptive method of research to determine the factors
affecting the Grade 10 students on their senior high track at public high schools in Bubong, Lanao
del Sur for school year 2022-2023. Using this design, the numerical data gathered will be use to
assess the level of degree of influence of various factors to the career preferences of students.
LOCALE OF THE STUDY
The research settings of this study are the three public schools that is located in Bubong,
Lanao del Sur, namely:
 Datu Mamintal Adiong Sr. Memorial National High School
 East Bayabao Integrated National High School Vocational Technology
 Sarip Memorial National High School.
As of the current school year, the three public schools mentioned are now implementing
Grade 7 to Grade 12 of the K-12 curriculum. It was chosen as the locale of the study because of its
large student population.
RESPONDENTS OF THE STUDY AND
SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
This research study will use grade 10 students of academic year 2022-2023 who are upcoming Senior
High School students. The respondents will come from the secondary public schools in the Municipality of
Bubong, Lanao del sur, namely:

NAME OF SCHOOL POPULATION

Datu Mamintal Adiong Sr. Memorial National High School 365

East Bayabao Integrated National High School Vocational Technology 38

Sarip Memorial National High School 40

TOTAL 443

Table 1: Respondents of the Study Represented by the Grade 10 Students

Since the total population of this study is 443, Sloven’s formula was used with a 5% margin of error
with a total of 210.
RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS

 The main instrument of this study was a questionnaire which is composed of two parts.
 The first part of the questionnaire will be the profile of the respondents which consist of: age,
gender, parent’s occupation and prefer senior high strand of the respondents.
 The second part of the questionnaire will be divided into 4 topics. These are personal interest,
family and relatives, classmates and friends, job opportunities. Likert Scale will be use to achieve
the core objective of the study. The survey questionnaires consist of twenty (20) questions, five
questions for each of the factors affecting the senior high track preference of the Grade 10
students. The questionnaire was made to determine what factor they are most affected with.
DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE

 The researcher will send a letter requesting permission to the principals of the said school.
 Upon approval, the researcher will distribute and administer the research instrument and
personally distribute the questionnaires.
 The respondent’s information will be classified as confidential and the data gathered will be
tabulated and computed after reviewing the questionnaires.
STATISTICAL TOOLS
 Sloven’s formula was used to compute the respondents from the total population of the public
high schools in the Municipality of Bubong, Lanao del Sur.
Formula:
n=
 Percentage Distribution will be use to relate a part of a whole. This numerical analysis
especially on frequency distribution will be utilized in treating data.
Formula:
P=
 Weighted Mean will be utilized in computing the data revealed by the questionnaire.
Formula:
WM=
STATISTICAL TOOLS
 3. Ranking will be use as a method of analysis and interpretation. It will be use to categorize or
arrange the gathered data into order.
 4. Likert Scale is method of ascribing quantitative value to qualitative data, to make it amenable
to statistical analysis. A numerical value is assigned to each potential choice a mean figure for all
responses is computed at the end of the evaluation for survey. The final average score to represent
over all of accomplishment or attitude toward the subject matter.
SCALE WEIGHTED MEAN DESCRIPTION

5 4.20 – 5.00 Very Much Influenced

4 3.40 – 4.19 Influenced
3 2.60 – 3.39 Somewhat Influenced
2 1.80 – 2.59 Less Influenced
1 1.00 – 1.79 Not Influenced
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