Preferred Strand (Research)

ILOILO KING OF GLORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC.
Senior High School Department

Cano-an, Estancia, Iloilo
Part five, Significance of the study, deals with the
benefits may be derived from the conduct of the study.
Part six, Definition terms, gives the conceptual and
operational meaning of important words used in the study
Part seven, Delimitations of the study, specifies the scope
and the coverage of this research.
Background of the Study
Career choice is one of the most crucial problem of
many individual in this modern world that has to contend
with. One’s choice for vocation or career should ideally be
conditioned by one preference based on criteria or an
assessment of one’s capabilities interest and aptitude
(Azucena et. Al,2002).
Senior high school (SHS) covers the last two year of the
k to 12 program and includes 11 and 12. In SHS, students
will go through a core curriculum and subjects under a track
of their choice.
Senior high school is two years of specialized upper
secondary education, student may choose a specialization
based on aptitude, interest and school capacity. The choice
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of career track will define the contend of the subject, a
student will take a grade 11 and 12.
It is necessary that the youth for today’s generation
must be careful and wise in choosing strand that leads to
their career or vocation because it will determine the
success for the next stages of his/her life and also measure
one’s interest intelligence and aptitude. A choice and
compasses variety of possible pattern of lifestyle. It is a
way of life of what a person chooses, he/she select his/her
life.
A wrong choice may result to failure and dropout, and
therefore a waste of time, money and effort. Considering the
cost of education and the element involved, it is a must for
a student to carefully assess and understand the different
factor necessary in choosing their strand that leads to
their desired career. Student are in trouble in choosing
their career most likely their decisions are influenced by
some factors (Hewitt, 2010), must people be influenced by
careers that their parents favor. On the other hand, the
study of (Natalie 2006) disclosed that adolescent’s own
aspiration is influenced by their parent’s aspiration, or
expectations. He further opined that children may choose
what their parents desire simply to please them in the same

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vein, the refereed decision on career choice is influence by
political and economic consideration, previous way
experience and the influence of key individual in their
lives.
Factors should be taken in the consideration such the
multiple intelligences in choosing strand to purse in senior
high. Multiple intelligence emphasizes that a person could
have three or more intelligences which may help to
understand what area they are good at. To avoid career
mismatched, determining multiple intelligences could be a
big help.
To help children see the spectrum of occupation
related to each of the intelligence then they can begin
making their own decision about what feels right and what
doesn’t fit. Understanding oneself such as knowing the
multiple intelligences and their relationship to the career
choice will successfully help students to deal with the
challenges that lies ahead.
Theoretical Framework
This study will be anchored on the Super’s
Developmental Self-Concept Theory by Donald Super. Donald
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Super built his developmental theory on the idea that your
view of yourself changes. Time and experience help shape the
way a person values their career and the goals they set.
This theory defines a “career” as the entire lifetime of a
person. Donald Super influenced the idea that developing a
sense of self and realize that you change over time is
important when planning your career.
Super argues that occupational preferences and
competencies, along with an individual’s life situations,
all change with time and experience. Super developed the
concept of vocational maturity, which may or may not
correspond to chronological age: people cycle through each
of these stages when they go through career transitions.
Figure I show the paradigm of the study as can be seen
from the research paradigm; the dependents variables that
will be considered in this research are the factor affecting
preferred strand of junior high school students’ stand. The
independents variables that will be considered in this
research as their gender, economic status, desired course in
college, and Family’s occupational background.
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Independent Variables Dependent Variable
Gender Factor Affecting

Male Preferred Strand of
Female Junior High School
Economic Status Student
Income Below P10,000
Income Between P10,000.00-
P30,000.00 a. Parent Favor
Income Above P30,000.00 b. Own desire
Desired Course in College c. Economic
Licensed Professional
Unsilenced Professional
Consideration
Family’s Occupational d. Peer Influence
Background e. Family’s
Employed Occupational
Underemployed background
Unemployed
Figure 1. The Research Paradigm showing in the Independent

and dependent Variable of the study.
Statement of the Problem
This research study was conducted to establish
information on the decision-making analysis of factors
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affecting Junior High School of IKGCA in choosing their
strand.
Research questions were raised by the researcher and
specifically, it tried to give answer to the following
question:
1. What is factor affecting the preferred strand of Grade
10 students when taken as a whole as to (a) gender,
(b)economic status, (c) desired course in college and
(d) family’s occupational background?
2. Are there significant differences in the factor
affecting the factor affecting the preferred strand of
Grade 10 students when taken as a whole and classified
as to (a) gender, (b)economic status, (c) desired
course in college and (d) family’s occupational
background?
Hypothesis
Based on the aforementioned problems, the hypothesis was
tested:
1. There is no significant differences in the factor
affecting the preferred strand of Grade 10 students
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when taken as a whole and classified as to (a) gender,
(b) economic status, (c) desired course in college and
(d) family’s occupational background.
Significance of the Study
The researchers believed that the result of this study
will benefit the following person or group of persons:
To the students. This research will give them awareness
of what should be the correct mindset in choosing the
strand. That will lead to the right course in college and
will help to avoid job mismatch in the future.
To the parents. This research will be helpful to them.
Looking in background achievement for them to guide their
child in choosing a strand. Furthermore, it will give
awareness to the parent that they should guide and examine
the preferred strand of their children based on their
interest and capacity.
School Administrator. The result of this study will
likewise help the School that they may provide info drive
and strand or career guidance to the students in order to
find out the strand that fits their interest and capacity.
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Future Researchers. The result of this study will be
useful to the future researchers it may serve as a support
for their further studies about choosing the strand
appropriate fot the Grade 10 students.
Definition of Terms
For the purpose of clarification, the following important
terms used in this study are hereby defined conceptually and
operationally.
Gender-either of the two sexes (male and female),
especially when considered with reference to social and
cultural differences rather than biological ones
(Lexico.com, 2019.
In this study, gender refers to the male and female
Grade 10 student of IKGCA who were selected as respondents.
Economic status-is the social standing or class of an
individual or group it is often measured as a combination of
education, income and occupation (APA.org,2020).
In this study, economic status refers to family income
of the respondents and categorized as income below 10, 000,
income between 10,000-30,000 and income above 30,000.
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Grade Level-is a level of study in an elementary,
middle, or secondary school that is completed by a student
during one year (Merriam-webster.com).
In this study, grade refers to the grade 10 student who
were selected as respondents.
Family’s Occupational Background-refers to the set of
social, economic, cultural, and welfare characteristics of a
family (link.springer.com).
In this study, it refers to the job specifically
existing in the family. It is categorized as employed (to a
job connected to the degree finished), underemployed (job
not connected to the degree finished) and unemployed (no job
at all).
Strand- is used to indicate: (a)the disciple within a
learning area, e.g. history, geography, economics and civics
under “social studies”, each with its own associated goals
of learning; (b) domains that group the related learning
outcomes or achievement aims and objectives
(www.lbe.unesco.org).
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In this study, it refers to the strand that Grade 10
students will choose in senior high school. These are STEM,
HUMSS, TVL-ICT, TVL-HE.
Desired course, refers to the distance you are off in
either direction (https://en.glosbe).
In this study, it refers to the desire course in
college. It is classified into licensed professional
courses (degree with licensed) and unlicensed professional
courses (degree without licensed).
Delimitations of the study
This study was conducted to determine the factors that
affect the preferred strand of grade 10 students in IKGCA.
It also tried to ascertain the differences in the factor
affecting preferred strand of students when classified to
certain categories.
The respondents of the study will be limited only to
the purposely selected grade 10 students of Iloilo King of
Glory Christian Academy Inc. enrolled in S.Y 2020-2021.
There were total population of 54 Grade 10 students grouped
as 10-A and 10-B. The Slovin’s formula was used to
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determine the sample size. Slovins’s formula is used to
calculate an appropriate sample size from a population
(https://www.statisticshowto.com/how-to-use-slovins-
formula/). The sample size was drawn through a stratified
random sampling.
This study utilized a questionnaire personally
constructed checklist to determine the factors that affect
the preferred strand of the respondents. The questionnaire
has undergone the validity and reliability testing.
The study utilized a descriptive type of research
employing to factor affecting preferred strand of Grade 10
students as the dependent variables which will be confined
to five areas namely: Parent Favor, Own desire, Economic
Consideration, Peer Influence and Family’s Occupational
backgroundAnd Preferred strand also as the dependent
variables which will be confined to five areas namely:
HUMSS, STEM, TVL (ICT/HE), ABM, and undecided.
The research instrument that will be used to gather
the necessary data needed for the pursuit of the study is a
questionnaire which will be personally constructed by the
researchers. It will undergo a reliability testing to ensure
its validity. The questionnaire will be submitted to the
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panel for content and appropriateness. Options like revise,
reject and accept will be the feedback from the panel.
The data that will be gathered in this study will be
subjected to computer processed statistics using the
Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The
statistical tools that will be used in the statistical
prescription of data will include frequency count,
percentage, mean, t-test and one-way analysis of variance.
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ILOILO KING OF GLORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC.

Senior High School Department

Part five, Significance of the study, deals with the

benefits may be derived from the conduct of the study.

Part six, Definition terms, gives the conceptual and

operational meaning of important words used in the study

Part seven, Delimitations of the study, specifies the scope

and the coverage of this research.

Background of the Study

Career choice is one of the most crucial problem of

many individual in this modern world that has to contend

with. One’s choice for vocation or career should ideally be

conditioned by one preference based on criteria or an

assessment of one’s capabilities interest and aptitude

(Azucena et. Al,2002).

k to 12 program and includes 11 and 12. In SHS, students

will go through a core curriculum and subjects under a track

Senior high school is two years of specialized upper

secondary education, student may choose a specialization

based on aptitude, interest and school capacity. The choice

of career track will define the contend of the subject, a

student will take a grade 11 and 12.

It is necessary that the youth for today’s generation

must be careful and wise in choosing strand that leads to

their career or vocation because it will determine the

one’s interest intelligence and aptitude. A choice and

compasses variety of possible pattern of lifestyle. It is a

way of life of what a person chooses, he/she select his/her

A wrong choice may result to failure and dropout, and

therefore a waste of time, money and effort. Considering the

cost of education and the element involved, it is a must for

a student to carefully assess and understand the different

factor necessary in choosing their strand that leads to

their desired career. Student are in trouble in choosing

their career most likely their decisions are influenced by

some factors (Hewitt, 2010), must people be influenced by

careers that their parents favor. On the other hand, the

study of (Natalie 2006) disclosed that adolescent’s own

aspiration is influenced by their parent’s aspiration, or

expectations. He further opined that children may choose

what their parents desire simply to please them in the same

vein, the refereed decision on career choice is influence by

political and economic consideration, previous way

experience and the influence of key individual in their

Factors should be taken in the consideration such the

multiple intelligences in choosing strand to purse in senior

high. Multiple intelligence emphasizes that a person could

have three or more intelligences which may help to

understand what area they are good at. To avoid career

mismatched, determining multiple intelligences could be a

To help children see the spectrum of occupation

related to each of the intelligence then they can begin

doesn’t fit. Understanding oneself such as knowing the

multiple intelligences and their relationship to the career

choice will successfully help students to deal with the

challenges that lies ahead.

This study will be anchored on the Super’s

Developmental Self-Concept Theory by Donald Super. Donald

Super built his developmental theory on the idea that your

view of yourself changes. Time and experience help shape the

This theory defines a “career” as the entire lifetime of a

person. Donald Super influenced the idea that developing a