Abstract: This study was conducted to determine the level of competencies and performance of faculty in natural science of selected universities and colleges in Region III. The descriptive method was used and questionnaire was the main instrument in gathering data. The researcher used the convenience sampling technique, and involved a total of thirty-nine (39) faculty respondents and one hundred ninety nine (199) student respondents who were randomly selected from the different state universities and colleges in Region III. There were eight (8) institutions involved in this study. The researcher utilized the National Competency-Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS)of the Commission on Higher Education or CHED and the Survey Instrument for Accrediting Programs of the Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACUP) as bases for the questionnaire used in this study. The faculty were found very competent in social regards for learning, curriculum development and personal growth and professional development. There was negligible negative relationship between the aspects of social reards for learning, planning, assessing and reporting and personal growth and social development when correlated and teacher performance significant relationship difference on the perceptions of teacher respondents on the domains when grouped according to profile variables; there is a significant difference on the perceptions of student respondents on the Learning Environment, Curriculum Development, Personal Growth and Professional Development and Diversity of Learners when they are grouped according to state universities and colleges enrolled on the Planning, Assessing and Reporting, Community Linkages and Laboratory Facilities; there is a significant difference on the perceptions of the teacher respondents compared to that of the student respondents on the following domains: Social Regards for Learning, Learning Environment, Diversity of Learners, Curriculum Development and Personal Growth and Professional Development. In view of the findings and conclusions, the researcher offers the following recommendations: (1) Strengthen the community linkages of the state universities and college in order to involve community in sharing accountability for the learners achievements, and (2) laboratory facilities should as much as possible be updated taking into consideration the advancements in technology to facilitate learning, (3) conduct periodic planning, assessing and reporting of activities to determine actions to be made, (4)Parents should be encouraged to attend and actively participate in school activities such as parent-teacher meetings and consultations, and (5) Institutions should have improved dissemination processes when it comes to research findings and school activities.
Keywords: competencies, performance, Higher Education, universities.
Title: Competencies and Performance of Faculty of Selected Universities and Colleges in Central Luzon, Philippines
Author: Elvira D. Magno, Elizabeth N. Farin
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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