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| Knowing the Right Path: Correlation of Grade 10 Learners' Academic Performance on Their Occupational Fields of Interest and Its Alignment to Personal Preferences in College Studies, Basis to A Strategic School-Initiated Career Guidance Program |
Joey R. Cabigao, PhD, Maricris DC. Salamoding, Nanlie DC. Vacunawa
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Abstract:
This study utilizing mixed methods concurrent triangulation design primarily aims to determine the alignment of Grade 10 learners' academic performance and occupational fields of interest to their personal preferences in college studies to come up with a strategic school-initiated career guidance program. The study is anchored on Trait & Factor Theory (1908) and adopted the Input-Process-Output model to operationalize its variables. The assumptions of the study are: (1) Learners' academic performance poses a significant impact on their recorded areas of occupational interest and (2) A strategic school-initiated career guidance program is necessary to ensure learners' alignment of recorded areas of occupational interest to their preferred courses in college. The 187 Grade 10 learners from the four junior high schools in the DepEd City of Malolos served as the respondents which were chosen through random stratified sampling. Findings of the study revealed that: (1) learners' academic performance, in general, is only satisfactory level; (2) their NCAE occupational interest rating is generally in moderate preference level; (3) academic performance significantly impacts their recorded fields of occupational interest; (4) general preferences of learners in college are courses on personal services, professional services, engineering courses, military and law enforcement, and business and finance/ commerce; (5) their common reasons in choosing a college course are their personal choice/ line of interest, the influence of others, present financial conditions of the family, and employability to work local and/or abroad; and (6) their preferred courses in college are aligned to their recorded potentials/inclinations based on NCAE but only to a moderate preference level. The study recommends: (1) the implementation of appropriate interventions for learners to improve their academic performance in each learning area; (2) the conduct of effective orientation and reorientation programs on NCAE not only to learners but also for teachers and parents/guardians; (3) instituting a strategic school-initiated career guidance program to assist learners to come up with a sound decision in choosing what line of studies or occupations to pursue in the future.
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