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A Case Study of Factors Considered by Undecided Grade 10

Students of Lyceum of the Philippines University- Laguna in
Choosing their Academic Track for Senior High School

A thesis presented to LPU-Laguna High School Department

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for
Practical Research 1

Diaz, Robie L.
Lambit, Lady Myran L.
Mendoza, Danice Clydeiline C.
Perez, Angelique
Tabilog, Ajani Pauline A.

February 2020

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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

The real goal of the K to 12 Curriculum is to provide 21st-century graduates equipped

with the core values and lifetime competencies they need to provide to societal
development and nation-building. The new curriculum allows students to choose among
three tracks (i.e., Academic; Technical-Vocational-Livelihood; and Sports and Arts) and
undergo immersion, which provides relevant exposure and experience in their selected
track. The two extra years of Senior High School (SHS) will produce graduates with four
exits and life options, namely, employment, entrepreneurship, higher education, and
middle-level skills development (Berto, 2019).

Some students from secondary education may find it hard to make decisions on what
course that they will get in college and influence them to enter courses without
completely understanding the background of what they are pursuing (Ramirez &
Dizon,2014; Aguado, Laguador, & Deligaro, 2015). The curricular contributions of private
colleges and universities, which are almost the same programs, make diversification
very difficult (Vaz & Mansori, 2013). Therefore, students must learn a high-quality
education that will help them identify their skills and will stand as a guide to their wanted
career toward significant accomplishments. Additionally, higher education institutions are
under pressure in currently educating students to be competent for them not to depend
on their professional roles but also to handle challenging workplace (Clegg, 2008;
Monzó & SooHoo, 2014; Park, 2012).

In a form with a high-quality education, the implementation of the K-12 program in the
Philippines started in the year 2011- 2012 (DepEd Discussion paper 2010). In the K to
12 curriculum, it includes kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of
primary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High
School) to provide enough time for knowledge of concepts and skills, develop life-long
learners, prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development,
employment, and entrepreneurship (Official Gazette of the Philippines, 2015). Thus, it

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performed to prepare senior high school students in choosing their course and improve
their professional ambitions.

According to Gordon and Steele's 25-year longitudinal study of over 19,000 undecided
students, revealed that 22% were utterly undecided, 31% tentatively decided, and 43%
had "several ideas but were not ready to decide" (p. 23) (Wiley & Williams, 2015). In
their qualitative research of advanced undecided college students, Hagstrom, Skovholt,
and Rivers, 1997 as cited from Wiley and Williams (2015), observed that several
undecided students showed hopelessness, anxiety, and frustration. These passions can
become more or less severe as students attempt precision on a major. Two main
factors determine the absent feelings: parents who ask about the process to a decision
and peers who appear to be confident about their career goals. (Wiley & Williams, 2015).

Gordon (1998), as cited by the latest study of Ellis (2014), classified undecided students
into four groups: temporarily uncertain, developmentally undecided, seriously confused,
and chronically doubtful. Temporarily undecided students possess self-confidence and
do not notice barriers to their goals, and developmentally undecided students need to
find relevant information and develop decision- making skills; they may express interest
in a variety of areas. Seriously undecided students usually present with relatively low
self-esteem and limited knowledge of educational and occupational choices. The
chronically indecisive students experience excessive anxiety that affects many parts of
their lives. They also may not fully know educational and professional opportunities and
may seek approval from others when making a decision (Ellis, 2014).

Studies on senior high school students' occupational aspirations found out that interests,
skill, personal meaning, challenges, and parental support are variables contributing to
the occupational aspirations of senior high school students. (Bardick et.al, 2006; Abarro,
2016). Furthermore, in the manner of the study on the factors influencing the educational
and career choices of senior high school students revealed that parent's support, school
structure, gender, and grade point average have considerable influence (La,2009;
Abarro 2016).

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This study, the objective is to focus on decisions and the process of how these factors
influence grade 10 students. The researcher's goal is to explore and analyze how the
participants choose their academic track and condition themselves for senior high
school. The study aims to find out the lacking knowledge that leads the students of LPU-
Laguna to confusion of choosing the right academic track to take in Senior high school.
Furthermore, to know how prepared they are in another path of their life. It aims to
develop the career path of the future readers. Thus, the purpose of this case study is to
explore and analyze the factors considered by Grade 10 undecided students in choosing
their academic strand for senior high at LPU-L. At this stage in research, the factors to
consider in choosing their academic strand will be generally defined as the vital point to
discover and improve the educational system of the students.

Statement of the Problem

The objective of this study aims to explore and analyze the factors considered by

the undecided students of Grade 10 in Lyceum of the Philippines.

Specifically, this paper aims to answer the following:

1. What are the factors influence students in choosing their academic track

for senior high school?

2. How these factors influence students?

3. Why students are influenced by these factors?

Significance of the Study

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This is the list of the people who will benefit from the study : Factors

Considered by Undecided students in Choosing their Academic Track. With these

results of the study, students will be perceived of the benefits of the different strands

and be aware that they need to be smart in making decisions in choosing their strands.

Grade 10 Junior High School Students. The results of the study serve as their guide in

choosing their Senior High School Strand and can be their reference to avoid

circumstances that can affect their decision. This study will be the source of ideas for

preparing themselves on another platform of academics.

Teachers. This study will serve as the basis and a guide to understand how to improve

and handle undecided students and help them to distinguish the skills that are

applicable for their students.

Parents. The results will be an enlightenment to the parents that they need to support

their children in their dreams and do not force them to take the strand that they do not

want. It will also help to distinguish the other factors that can influence their child.

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 Administration. The results of the study will inform them why the case of irregular

students is increasing and it will be a way for them to make a move. It will also serve as

their guide if there is a need to  improve their educational system.

Future Researchers. The results will serve as a basis and  a guide for their research

and it can help them to imagine the outcome if they want to conduct a study like this.

This will not just serve them data but also an idea how these factors are considered by

the students and how they are influenced.

Scope and Delimitation

The study will focus on the factors considered by the Grade 10 students who are

decided to study and stay at the LPU-L in senior high school. However, these students

are still undecided in choosing their academic track. The gathered information by the

researchers will distinguish how to enhance the understanding of the future senior high

schools in choosing the applicable career path for each of them. The hold inquiry will be

held in the Lyceum of the Philippines University to ensure the safety of the participants

besides the researchers. Particularly, 10 participants are needed in the said interview.

However, the participants should have profound knowledge about the study.

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Definition of Terms

Undecided students –a person who does not have a clear idea in choosing their

academic track or course.

Factors-  can refer as an influence on other people to contribute and display

action to a certain matter

Academic Track- prepares the students for another level of education which is

college. It serves as the trail to a prosperous tomorrow.

Career path- one of a passage that people grow as an individual in an institution

and enhance their knowledge.

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Abarro, J. (2016). Factors Affecting Career Track and Strand Choices of Grade 9
Students in the Division of Antipolo and Rizal,Philippines. Retrieved from
http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0616/ijsrp-p5409.pdf

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Aguado, Deligro, Dizon & Laguador (2014;2015). Factors Affecting the Choice of
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Chapter 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter presents a selection of various literature and studies related to the factors
considered by the Grade 10 students, along with the theories that support the study.

K to 12
           The former president, Benigno Aquino III, approved the program by signing the
law of K to 12, Republic Act (RA) 10533. The said program aims to give the students to
be global- competitive and be prepared for the future to have more opportunities. In this
program, students will be capable of learning fast, will be taught using their respective
mother tongue. The students will also have different subjects, and as early as
elementary, they will teach biology, geometry, earth science, chemistry, and algebra.
The implemented subjects will prepare the students for further learning (official gazette,
n.d.). Compared to the old education system, graduates of K to 12 are 18 years old,
ready for employment, entrepreneurship, skills development, or higher education. At the
same time, this program accelerates the mutual acknowledgment of Filipino in other
countries because they graduated K to 12 and will recognize as professionals
(K12Philippines, 2015).

Senior High School

The SHS program is the last level in all basic education programs of the countries
reviewed. The Philippines has a more precise model with at least four tracks, and these
are the academics, tech-VOC, sports, arts & design, and at least ten strands (Sarmiento
& Orale, 2016). According to Nicum, K. (2019), Academic Track is the Philippine K-12
Basic Education Curriculum, wherein Senior Highschool program has a four-track offer
for the students who want to pursue high-quality education after completing junior high
school. However, LPU- Laguna offers three academic tracks, which are Accountancy,
Business and Management (ABM) strand, Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS)
strand, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) strand. Senior
high school core curriculum of LPU-L focuses on eight learning areas (Lyceum of the
Philippine University-Laguna, n.d.).

   Career Choice 
The developmental theory by Eli Ginzberg professes that children and adolescents go
through three choices, which are the stage of fantasy, tentative and practical, or realistic
(Ginzberg, 1972; Ginzber et al.1951; Osakinle, 2010). He argues that there is a fantasy

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stage of career choice for children ages 11 years old. When they reach 11 to 17 years
old, they are in an experimental stage of career choice. Moreover, when they reach the
period from 17 to 18 years of age through the early twenties, the realistic stage of career
choice occurs. According to Ginzberg,
 "one has to weigh the environmental factors likely to either enhance or inhibit achieving
a maximum degree of satisfaction in one's life and work," he claims that choosing a
career in which one individual can make maximum use of one's interests and capabilities
in such a manner that will satisfy his goals ( Igbinedion, 2011).

In line with the work of Ginzberg, Donald Super developed the theories and the work of
associate Eli Ginzberg – he held that Ginzberg's work had faults, which he needed to
address. Super spread Ginzberg's life and career development stages (career.govt.nz,
2019). The theory of career self-concept, Donald Super's hypothesis stated that the self-
concept of a person plays a central role in his or her choice of career. The fundamental
feature of Super's theory is the assertion that career choice develops over time. The
features explore the change in vocational choice and ability as an individual matures
through life stages (Strauser, 2014, p. 98-99). Super claims that it is during puberty that
people develop a career self-concept first (Super, 1967; Osakinle, 2010).

Donald Super stated that a single pass through five life stages as his or her career
processes. These life stages are growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and
decline. As an individual grows, self-concept was forming, and by this growth, he can
finally choose what career he desires (Goodall, 2017). However, according to Krumboltz
(1975; Career.govt.nz, 2016), it is okay to not always plan for your career because
events that were not planned can lead you to good careers. In his theory, it stated that
people's career choices could change due to the change in labor or the job market. If an
individual manages his life transitions, it can lead him to better career choices.
Individuals may encounter unpredictable events and environmental factors that change
their perspective in life. Also, if they are curious about exploring and learning
opportunities, persistent in dealing with obstacles, flexible in different circumstances and
events, and optimistic in maximizing benefits from unplanned events, they are likely to
overcome unplanned events and turn serendipity to opportunity.

In the line to career choices, the learning theory by Sockolov (2017) stated that an
individual's career choice emerge if they are willing and agrees to change or improve
their skills and interest. She also stated that the learning theory has four factors that tells
how someone choose a career. The theory indicates that an individual should be open to
the fact that one career is not the best for a person. A person should be open of a new

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career path. This theory includes the person's learning experiences, special abilities, or
genetic environments, skills, and the capability of doing the task. This theory also
indicates that an environment is also a factor of a career choice.

According to Ingrid Robeyns (2016), the Faculty of Humanities and the corresponding
Institute of Ethics, in this theory, it is a person's freedom to choose a specific strand of
choice. The Human Development and Capability Approach (HDCA) aims to develop
studies that have received further support from scholars, practitioners, and politics.
Martha Nussbaum (2011) defined the general approach to ability (not her specific
theory) as composed of two clusters, one focusing on the comparative quality of life and
the other on justice theory. The two clusters should share an importance on what people
can do and be, and share a responsibility to five principles: treating each person as an
end; concentrating on choice and freedom rather than achievement; pluralism of values;
being deeply concerned with enshrined social injustices; ascribing an essential role to
government and ascribing an urgent task to government. 

    Factors Influence Students 

           Most people believe that passion plays a vital role in choosing an individual's
career path to be successful. However, there are a lot of recent studies presents that
understanding the personalities of individual own-traits and aspect rather than passion,
this is the key to have a successful and fulfilling career (Bacaricas et al., 2015). The
article posted by Adecco UK (2015) stated that choosing a job to which an individual in
inherently suited is more effective rather than just able to convince the interviewer that
the person is interested in the position and will make the individual happier and more
productive. According to Splaver (1977, p.13), "students to have a good knowledge of
themselves, their character, if they are to obtain reasonable career plans" this means
that if students become familiar with their personality, it will guide them to their career
choice. (Raveenther, 2017).
      
In John Holland's Theory of Career Development, he envisions a structure wherein an
individual will become compatible with a specific environment base on his or her
personality. It is also stated in his theory that when the environment and the personality
match, an individual will feel fulfillment and triumph (healthresearchfunding.org, 2011).
As cited by the Health Research Funding (2011), John Holland's (1959) theory also
stated that when an individuals' personalities match each other, they will improve their
works and can lead to a positive outcome. Also, they can influence each other positively,
and each of them can absorb new personality traits because of their environment.

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The personality and trait theory was supported by the study of Dr. Katy Jordan (2019).
Frank Parsons' trait and factor theory is the fourth calling information to take the
spotlight. Parsons developed the likelihood that an ideal job relies upon organizing
singular characteristics like aptitudes, characteristics with work factors, and working
environment. The better the fit, the higher an individual's action satisfaction and
accomplishment. Parsons' theory introduced a systematic methodology with vocation
coordinating. Vocation counselors started to utilize organized sessions both to share
their insight into the activity market and assist customers with understanding themselves
better. What's more, individuals' inclinations and conditions may change all through their
job as well.

           One of the most influential factors that Filipino students consider in career
decisions is respect for the family. As a sign of respect, they want to do well for the sake
of the family. They follow parent's advice about major in college and lastly make
sacrifices for the family (Finlayson, 2009; Bacaricas et al., 2015). For practical reasons,
parents usually encourage careers that will not cost much money, but, at the same time,
are a stable source of income (Saysay, 2011; Bacaricas et al., 2015). In line with the
source as cited by Pafili and Mylonakis (2012), in choosing the level of education, the
critical role is played by the family, because this is the central forum through which the
individual has his first contact with the social environment. The individual, through the
family, derives his first impulses, aspirations, ambitions and grows as a personality.
These will affect the individual, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, in his
professional choices (Psacharopoulos & Kazamias, 1985; Pafili & Mylonakis 2012). 

According to McQuerry (2006), as cited by Emilio Aguinaldo College (2016), people's

ideal profession can probably influence their career path. These chosen careers can be
found by an individual as financially satisfying due to their socio-economic statuses. The
other factor that he said that can likely affect the choice of students is opportunity. May
have a significant impact on their career path because they can be aware of what they
are aiming for in their future. Many chances hold back for every career that one wants to
pursue. Following some steps and techniques, some people may stumble to a better
occupation opportunity (mind tools, 2014; Bacaricas et.al, 2015).In these circumstances,
one can locate opportunities that are perfectly matched to an individual's interest or
skills, identity about promotions, and career openings before anyone else. The person
can identify ways of expanding the knowledge and skills needed for that career
(Bacaricas et al., 2015).

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Conceptual Framework

Output
Input Process
 Factors
 Students  In- depth considered
 Grade 10 interview by Grade 10
Junior High  Transcribe JHS students
School  Coding in choosing
 Undecided  Interpreta- their
students tion academic
track

Figure 1. The Conceptual Framework of the Study

The conceptual framework of the study follows the Input-Process-Output (I-P-O)

format. The input contains the participants specifically the Grade 10 JHS students who

are undecided in choosing their academic track but decided to stay in LPU-Laguna for

SHS. The variables are collected through an in-depth interview. The outcome are the

different factors considered by the Grade 10 students and how they choose their

academic track.

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Chapter 3

METHODOLOGY

Research Design
           This study is a qualitative research conducted to analyze what, why, and how
factors influence Grade 10 junior high school students in choosing their academic track
for senior high school. The researchers used the case study as a research design to
gain insights and collect background information regarding the factors that influence
students. This kind of research design aims to gather data that is suitable to obtain
concise and relevant answers from the participants that can answer the research
questions.

 Sampling 
           A total of 10 students from Lyceum of the Philippines University- Laguna, who are
in Grade 10, will be accepted to participate in this study. The researchers will use
purposive sampling as they selected participants according to a set of criteria. First, the
participants must be Grade 10 junior high school students who decide to study in
Lyceum of the Philippines University- Laguna for senior high school; however, they are
undecided on their academic track. 
Also, the participants must have a profound knowledge about the academic track offered
by LPU-L and prior knowledge about factors that influence them. The set criteria for the
sampling were arrange since the study is dealing with the academic track, and the
factors influence these students and individually Grade 10 junior high school students
are more appropriate for providing the data for this study.

 Gathering Tools 
           An in-depth interview will be using a tool for gathering data, information, and gain
insights for this study. The researchers will conduct a pre-survey first to identify the
respondents who are qualified to give the necessary data. The qualified ten respondents
will give a questionnaire sheet to answer the following survey questions. The flow of
answering the questionnaire sheet will be guided accordingly by the research objectives
of the study. These objectives focused on the factors to consider by the grade 10
undecided students in choosing their academic track as well as how these factors
influence the grade, ten students, in choosing their academic track. The researchers will
take down notes of the significant key-points during the survey and, at the same time,
giving follow up questions for the precision of the data.

   Data Analysis

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           After the researchers gathered data, the recorded data transcribed in a verbatim
manner, as soon as transcripts finished, the researchers will proceed to the coding
process wherein the answers of the respondents will be analyzed to generate the codes
and an open coding will be applied. After the data has analyzed, the codes which have
similar concepts have grouped into categories. From these categories, the themes were
then well-established. Interpret data, a thematic framework used. 

           Ethical Consideration
                       The researchers will inform the participants about the study that will
conduct in order for the participants to know the information they need to give during the
interview. They will also inform that the purpose of this study is to know the factors
influencing the Grade 10 undecided students in choosing their academic track. To
assure the participants about confidentiality and anonymity, the researchers will
distribute an Informed Consent Form to the participants before conducting an interview.
For the participants, they have the power to set the time and place for the interview.
They are also free to withdraw or say no for the interview. Lastly, the researchers will
ensure the given data from the participants. The given data will remain between the
researchers and the participants for a privacy purpose.

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Research Questions

Warm up questions

 What is your dream?

 How do you see yourself 10 years from now?
 What is it like to be an undecided students?
 When did you realized you are undecided?
 Are there any hardship you encounter as an undecided students?
 If you were given a chance to decide by yourself without any influence, do
you think it will be easier?
 For being a grade 10 students and you only have a short time frame to
decide do you feel any pressure on choosing your academic track?
 What way do you think can help you decide what academic track you will
choose in senior high school?
 The LPU-L is keen to serve the wider community and the economy. Does
LPU-L help you to have any potential in different areas? On what way?

*RQ1: What are the factors influence students in choosing their

academic track for senior high school?

 What are the factors that influence you in choosing your academic track?
 Enumerate these factors and rank them from _ to _.
 What is the reason behind each factor?
 From the previous ranking, the factor ____ influenced you the most in
choosing academic track. How do you think it can affect you in the future?

*RQ2: How these factors influence students?

 From your chosen factor, what way do you think this factor influence you?
 How do you feel for being influenced by these factors?

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*RQ3: Why students are influenced by these factors?

 Can you please give us a specific experience being influenced by these

factors.
 State us the reason why you are influenced.
 How do you deal with these factors?

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