Teachers' Competence and Students' Performance in Technology and Home Economics: A Correlation Study
Keywords:
Competence, Performance, Technology and Home Economics, CorrelationAbstract
This study assessed the competencies of the Technology and Home Economics (T.H.E.) teachers in selected schools in Samar. This also tried to correlate the competencies of the same teachers with senior college students’ performance in Technology and Home Economics (T.H.E.). The present study employed the descriptive-correlational design to establish relationships between the Technology and Home Economics teachers’ level of competence and the Technology and Home Economics senior college students’ level of performance in selected schools in Samar. For the remaining seven teachers’ variates the computed correlation coefficient obtained were: -0.15 for age, -0.26 for civil status, -0.03 for educational qualification, -0.15 for teaching experience, 0.29 for teaching preparation/load, -0.12 for performance rating and -0.31 for relevant training attended with the Fisher’s t-value corresponding to these values posted at -1.62, -0.97, -0.11, -.0.55, 1.09, -0.44 and -1.18 respectively. All the computed Fishers’ t-value were found to be lesser than the tabular-critical t-value of 1.77 at 0.05 level of significance and 13 degrees of freedom, which led to the acceptance of null hypothesis the “there is no significant relationship between the teachers’ level of competence and these teachers’ variates. On the basis of the forgoing findings, the following conclusions were drawn: There is a need of strengthening the staff development along this direction. There is a need for the Technology and Home Economics teachers to improve their communicative competence, through attending training in communication development or enrolling in short term courses specially for these purpose in order that their communication pedagogy will be improved since this is found to contribute to students’ values and skills development in Technology and Home Economics. Although content pedagogy, communicative pedagogy and instructional pedagogy are very important in the students' learning of content in Technology and Home Economics, they are nevertheless important.
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