ICCT Building, General Luna Road Corner Resureccion Street, Barangay Sta.

Ana, San

Mateo, Rizal

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Research proposal is presented to Research teacher Ms. Jecil Rico of Senior High

School of ICCT Colleges Inc.

( Research Professor )

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CAREER GUIDANCE:THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT

STRAND/COURSES TO THE GRADE 11 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF

ICCT SAN MATEO CAMPUS AY 2017-2018

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By :

Azucena,Kenneth

Calipes.Mark Lyndon

Dela Pena.Marvin
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The work would not have been possible, much less come into recognizable form without

the help and cooperation of Senior High School Students at ICCT Colleges San Mateo

Campus.

We would also like to express also our special thanks of gratitude to the teacher

that helps us on our research.

As well as our teacher in Quatitative Research Ms. Jecil Rico who gave us the

golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic

Career Guidance:The Importance of Choosing the right strand/course to the

Grade 11 Senior High School Students of ICCT Colleges San Mateo Campus during

school year 2017-2018 , which also helped using doing a lot of Research and we came

to know about so many new things we are really thankful to them.

Secondly, we would also like to thank our parents and friends who helped us a

lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame and also for the financial support

that they gave.

Lastly, to the almighty God, whose existences have been mysterious and whose

guidance often kept us along the right tract of mind.

We also want to thank our fellow group mates that work hard to finish this

research

To each of you who lent a helping hand our grateful thanks.

 DEDICATION

I. Azucena,Kenneth

We humbly dedicate this work to the following:

To our Parents especially who has always given us the strength, support and

encourages to finish this work.

II. Calipes,Mark Lyndon M.

We dedicate this work to our Almighty God, to our parents and to all senior high

school students and teachers of ICCT Colleges San Mateo Campus.

III. DelaPena,Marvin

We would like to offer this research to our loving and supportive parents, friends

and lastly to our Almighty God.

 ABSTRACT

This study are aimed to answer the Career Guidance :Importance of choosing the right

career or courses to the grade 11 senior high school students of ICCT San Mateo

Campus academic year 2016-2017.

Specifically, it will sought to answer the following questions.

Specially, it will seek to answer the following question:

1. What are the benefits of choosing the right strand/course of grade 11 Senior High

School students?

2. What are the importance of career guidance to the Grade 11 Senior High School

students?

3. What are main importance of career guidance to the Grade 11 Senior High school

students?

The Findings of the study are as follows:

1. Benefits of choosing the right strand/courses of grade 11 Senior High School

students

I. Educational Support and Guidance

II. Identifying Choices in Careers

III. Job Search Support

2. Importance of career guidance to the Grade 11 Senior High School students:

I. Career guidance assists an individual in dealing with career issues.

II. Career guidance has assisted students to make educational plans

 III. Career guidance assists students to access career information in order to

make appropriate career choices.

IV. Career guidance assists students on how to make subject choices basing on

their career aspirations.

V. Career guidance are useful in understanding individual differences,

personality, interests, values, and abilities.

VI. Career guidance makes a positive difference in an individual’s career life.

3. Main effects of Computer addiction to the Grade 11 students at ICCT Colleges San

Mateo Campus:

I. Career guidance assists an individual in dealing with career issues.

V. Career guidance are useful in understanding individual differences,

personality, interests, values, and abilities.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ……………………………………………………………… i.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………. ii.

DEDICATION……………………………………………………………… iii.

ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………... iv.

TABLE OF CONTENTS..…………………………………………………. v.

CHAPTER 1.

I. INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY……….........................3

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM………………………. 4

ASSUMPTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS ……………………5

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY………………………… 6

DEFINITION OF TERMS ………………………………….7

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY…………8

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK …………….……………..9

 CHAPTER 1

This chapter covers the introduction, background of the study, statement of the problem,

significance of the study and Scope and Delimitation.

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

This paper describes the Importance of Career Guidance to the grade 11 Senior

High School students of ICCT Colleges San Mateo Campus. Majority of Senior High

School students do not consider career guidance a significant issue. Hence, they have

no or very little realization about the importance of career guidance. As a matter of fact,

career guidance is a very important aspect of your life. In fact, it can make or break your

career. At Junior High School, career guidance could lead students to form realistic

ideas regarding career options. It will prevent them from relying on peer information

when making subject choices for High School (Wahl & Blockhurst, 2000). It could focus

on their interests and aptitudes, as well as on educational capabilities of the students.

The goal of career guidance should be to provide students with tools in integrating

awareness about themselves, their potential and post school education into informed

decisions about their future. (Kovach,2001). The researchers concluded that many

Grade 11 Senior High School students of Senior High School students at ICCT Colleges

San Mateo Campus are not prepared on the career that they want to pursue

performances and some are choosing the wrong career or strand/courses that can lead

them to fail in the future. If the SHS students choose the right career we can prevent

career stereotypes and misconceptions.

Related studies

A. Local Literature

Unemployment rate in the country is commonly associated with the misfit

graduates produced by universities and colleges and the workforce needed by different

companies. The wrong choice of course taken by most of high school students adds to

the unemployment and underemployment rate of newly graduate students. With this the

study determined the factors affecting the fourth year high school students’ career

preference of University of Rizal System’ Laboratory School in Morong Rizal. The

relationship of the factors affecting students’ preference of course to their career

preference, Brainard’s Occupational Preference Inventory (BOPI) results, academic

achievement and their elective grades were considered. Frequency, percentage and

chi-square were used as statistical treatments. The findings revealed that the availability

of work after college is the first consideration of students in choosing a course in

college. Most of the students prefer to take scientific related field courses, or the

“popular courses” for Filipinos. The least preferred course are in the Agricultural field.

The BOPI results showed that most of the student-respondents are suited to take

professional courses. Students’ preferred course is related to their BOPI result as well

as to their father’s occupation. Other factors such as mother’s occupation, monthly

family income, students’ sibling position and students’ third year general average

grades are not related to the students’ preferred course in college to their BOPI results.

BOPI results are significantly related to the students’ elective course grades. Students’

career success can be best attained if proper guidance is given in choosing the right

course in college, suited to students’ personality, ability and intellect.

B. Foreign literature

Although the National Educational Guidelines made clear reference to careers

education, it was not until 1999 that it became a requirement for schools to offer careers

education to all secondary school students and by 2000 this was mandated to include

all students from Year 7 and above (Lynes, 2001; Smith, 2007). In 2003 the Ministry of

Education consulted widely with school Careers Advisors, Principals and Career

Services Rapuara to write a handbook to guide schools. They published the Career

Education and Guidance in New Zealand Schools, (2003) handbook to assist in the

planning and delivery of careers education and guidance, but they did not consult

students or parents as part of the process (Vaughan & Gardiner, 2007). The handbook

was revised in 2008 but the student and parent stakeholders were again not consulted,

with assumptions made by policymakers and school administrators that careers

education was a high priority for students and should be delivered like other areas of the

6 school curriculum, but without proper funding and clear implementation guidelines (de

Cos, Chan & Salling, 2009; Vaughan & Roberts, 2007; Watts, 2001). Research shows

that careers education and guidance policy has been developed without any meaningful

consultation with students and is just done to them as part of their general schooling

(Levin, 2000; Vaughan, 2003; Howieson & Semple, 2000). The literature suggests

students should be at the centre of their career journey with individualised programmes

within a narrative constructivist mode of delivery to ensure buyin and relevancy (Levin;

2000; Vaughan & Roberts, 2007). The context of this research is to ask students directly

what they need to make informed careers decisions in the secondary sector and what

they understand about current careers theory which will help them to become effective
future career managers and to then compare this with students who left school two

years ago and with the views of Careers Advisors currently working in this field. There is

a gap in the literature in regard to student voice and actually asking them what they

need to make informed careers decisions in this emerging curriculum area. Vaughan

(2003) asserts relatively little research has been done where young people‟s

experiences are placed at the centre and she suggests that careers education “research

and policy is structured by quite particular concepts of youth, adulthood and transition”,

(p.1) which has been generated by adults. The study also investigates what Careers

Advisors consider are the main influences on student‟s decision making, what

qualifications they hold and how they deliver the careers theory and guidance

prescribed in the Ministry of Education handbook to allow for direct comparison from the

students‟ perspectives and to explore an area of research where little has been done in

the New Zealand context to date

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study aims to analyze the Career guidance:Importance of choosing the right

career or courses to the grade 11 senior high school students of ICCT San Mateo

Campus academic year 2016-2017.

Specially, it will seek to answer the following question:

1. What are the benefits of choosing the right strand/course of grade 11 Senior High

School students?

2. What are the importance of career guidance to the Grade 11 Senior High School

students?

3. What are main importance of career guidance to the Grade 11 Senior High school

students?
 ASSUMPTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS

ASSUMPTIONS

This research study is anchored on the assumption the importance of career guidance
to the grade 11 senior high school where the students of ICCT San Mateo campus do
not consider career guidance as a significant issue.

HYPOTHESIS

Senior High school Students of ICCT San Mateo do not consider career guidance as a
significant issue therefore most of students can`t find career or courses that is suit to
their skills and talent.Some also are failed in choosing the right career or courses
because some SHS students are force by their parents. We conclude that career
guidance is very important to SHS students in ICCT San Mateo Campus.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The results of the study will be of great benefit to the following:

STUDENTS.

The results will provide the students with some knowledge on choosing the right strand/course on the

college or maybe in their senior high school life. It will give the students a realization on the

strand/courses that they choose. At the end of this study students would finally know the importance of

career guidance before they step up in the higher grade.

TEACHERS.

The given data would guide the teachers on how will guide their studentst on choosing the right

career for them. The teachers would be able to understand on why some students choosing their

strand/courses. This study also will be a great source of information for them in

recognizing the importance of career guidance to the grade 11 senior high school

students of ICCT Colleges San Mateo Campus.

PARENTS.

Like the teachers, the parents will be the guide also because they are the one who are with in their

child at home,guide on choosing the right strand for them that is suit on their skills and knowledge. The

given data would help them formulate some preventive measures to help their sons to avoid choosing

the wrong and not suit strand/courses. The findings would also help them learn the actions of their

children.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

CAREER GUIDANCE - refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals, of

any age and at any point throughout their live, to make educational, training and
occupational choices and to manage their career .

JOB - is a person's role in society. More specifically, a job is an activity, often regular
and performed in exchange for payment.

COURSE -is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or
more instructors (Teacher or Professor), and has a fixed roster of students.

BENEFITS - an advantage or profit gained from something..

UNEMPLOYMENT - is a phenomenon that occurs when a person who is actively

searching for employment is unable to find work. 

CAREER - an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with
opportunities for progress.

IMPORTANCE - the state or fact of being of great significance or value.

COURSE - is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

This study was focused on the Career Guidance:The importance of Choosing the

right strand/course to the Grade 11 Senior High School students at ICCT Colleges San

Mateo Campus during school year 2016-2017.This study was conducted to find out the

importance of career guidance and this career guidance does really helpful to the Grade

11 Senior High School students.The main purpose is to seek the answers to the Grade

11 and also help the teachers to accommodate and faced the Grade 11 students case

and help the students to choose the right career for them.

ICCT Colleges San Mateo Campus

The respondents of this study are the Grade 11 Senior High School students at ICCT

Colleges.The researcher choose only 50 respondents from the Grade 11 Senior High

school students to answer all of the questions.The reason of the researcher for

choosing this as a respondents because the researcher wanted to know the importance
 of career guidance and also to help the students to give importance the career guidance

that can help them to secure their future life.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

I. Career guidance assists an

individual in dealing with career issues.

II. Career guidance has assisted

students to make educational plans

III. Career guidance assists students to

access career information in order to
STUDYING IN make appropriate career choices.

CAREER GUIDANCE HIGHSCHOOL OR

IV. Career guidance assists students
COLLEGE on how to make subject choices basing
on their career aspirations.
V. Career guidance are useful in
understanding individual differences,
personality, interests, values, and
abilities.
VI. Career guidance makes a positive

difference in an individual’s career life.

FRAMEWORK

CAREER GUIDANCE:THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT

STRAND/COURSES TO THE GRADE 11 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF

ICCT SAN MATEO CAMPUS AY 2017-2018