Performance of Education Graduates in Licensure Examination

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the performance in the Licensure Examination of Guimaras State College Teacher Education graduates A.Y. 2008-2015. This study used the analytical method of research and documentary analysis utilizing the secondary data taken from the official results of Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) released by Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) from September 2008 to September 2015. The statistical tools employed were mean, frequency counts and percentage, Chi-square and linear regression. Results revealed that there were 248 or 47.3% BEED takers and 276 or 57.3% BSED takers from year 2008 to 2015. BSED and BEED fresh and old graduates took the Licensure Examination for Teachers. It further revealed that large number of first takers took and passed the LET. Furthermore, the study showed that 2008 and 2010 had a larger number of takers. There were more passers from BEED and first takers performed better than retakers. BEED graduates LET performance was 73.65% while BSED was 68.41%. For the BEED, the highest passing percentage was in September 2015 while the lowest passing percentage was in March 2012. The BEED LET takers, in September 2012 had the highest passing percentage and in March 2013, none of the takers passed the LET. There was a significant difference in the performance of LET takers in terms of their degree, type of takers and year of examination. The result showed that in terms of degree, type of taker, and the year of examination, the P-value of .000 was lower than the set p-value at 0.05 level which was significant, thus, the null hypothesis was rejected. This simply shows that the profile of the LET takers influences their performance. A model or trend predicting the LET performance of graduates was formulated. The predicted institutional rating for BSED for 2016 was 37.246 and 87.952 for BEED LET takers.