Preference and choice of collegiate programs of senior high school students in San Pablo City

• Main Author: Losi, Laura
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1977
• Subjects: Vocational guidance; Student Counseling and Personnel Services
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/700
• Institution: De La Salle University

With a view to offering school administrators useful information that could help them in their decision-making with regard to program offerings in their institutions, the present study set out to investigate the preference and choice of courses of fourth year high school students in San Pablo City together with the reasons motivating such course preference and choice. Specific questions raised were as follows: 1) Which of the collegiate programs meet the first preference of fourth year high school students in San Pablo City? Which course will they most likely choose after graduation from high school? 2) Is there significant difference in the students' first preference of courses when the respondents are grouped according to sex, age, socio-economic status? Is there significant difference in the students' final choice of courses when the respondents are grouped according to sex, age, socio-economic status? Is there significant difference between the number of respondents who choose courses of their first preference and those who choose courses which are not of their first preference when they are grouped according to sex, age, socio-economic status? 3) Which reasons motivate the first preference and the final choice of courses of students? 4) How many of the respondents would express the intention to study in San Pablo City? How many of the respondents would express the intention to work in San Pablo City? Subjects of the study were 452 senior high school students representing the 30% of male and female enrollees in the fourth year of eight high schools in San Pablo City, one public and seven private, during the school year 1976-1977. The instrument used in the study was a questionnaire composed of fifteen questions regarding the respondents' first three preferences and final choices of courses, the reasons motivating these preferences and choices, the possible place of enrollment, and the desire to work in San Pablo City. Frequency and percentage distribution were presented in tables where the subjects are grouped according to sex, age and socio-economic status. Treatment of the data included computation of the chi-square value in order to determine whether there is a significant difference between the respondents' first preference and their final choice of courses. Based on the findings: 1) Not more than 50 percent of the subjects preferred traditional courses. 2) There is a significant difference in the first preference of courses when the subjects are grouped according to sex and no significant difference when the subjects are grouped according to age and socio-economic status. 3) Not more than 50 percent of the subjects chose traditional courses. 4) There is significant difference in the final choice of courses when the subjects are grouped according to sex and socio-economic status while no significant difference when the subjects are grouped according to age. 5) There is no significant difference between the number of subjects who choose courses that are not of their first preference when the subjects are grouped according to sex, age and socio-economic status. 6) Community reasons appear in the first three rank places of the reasons motivating the students in the first preference of courses. 7) Community reasons appear in the first three rank places of the reasons motivating the students in their final choice of a course. 8) Not more than 50 percent of the subjects expressed intention to study in San Pablo City. 9) More than 50 percent, in fact 69 percent, of the subjects expressed intention to work in San Pablo.