Description

The study investigated the relationship of attitude towards technical education with the achievement in mathematics and science of high school students taking a technical education curriculum. The technical curriculum is intends to prepare the high school students for technical courses in their higher education (college). Attitude towards technical Education was determined with the use of the ATTE inventory as constructed by the researcher (Cronbach’s alpha=.93). The mathematics and science achievement score were determined using the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT). There were 191 high school students composed of 126 males and 65 females ages 11 to 14 who took the MAT and the ATTE. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that in general, mathematics achievement and science achievement and students attitude towards technical education are independent. Theoretical implications are discussed in the paper.