Grade point average as a predictor to performance in the licensure examination for teachers: A basis for program review

Quality education is one of the priorities of the Philippine government. To ensure a minimum level of competency for teachers, a law was created mandated by Republic Act No. 7836, an act to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the practice of teaching in the Philippines and prescribing a Licensure Examination for Teachers and for other purposes, otherwise known as the Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994. Every graduate of education course must take this examination to be able to have a license to teach in basic education. This study aimed to find out whether the mean grade of the teacher education graduates of Saint Joseph's College of Baggao, Inc. in their general education courses and professional education courses can predict their performance in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). This study focused on the analysis of the Grade Point Average (GPA) in the general education courses and professional education course as a predictor to the performance in the Licensure Examination for Teachers of the Teacher Education (BEED/BSED) students at Saint Joseph's College of Baggao, Inc. San Jose, Baggao, Cagayan. The study will be delimited to the 55 BSED/BEED graduates who took the Licensure Examination for Teachers using the descriptive-correlational design. The researcher used documentary analysis technique as the main tool to gather the required data for the study. The academic performance of the Teacher Education (BSED/BEED) graduates was obtained from the database of the School Registrar's Office and their LET performance from PRC. Pearson r was used to compute and analyze the correlation between the academic performance and the LET performance of the subjects.Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions are drawn.Grade Point Average (GPA) generally correlates with performance in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). High grades in both general and professional education courses is a guarantee that students make good or pass the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). However, in this study the Grade Point Average (GPA) of the subjects is not a predictor to performance in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). There are other factors that may influence performance in the Licensure Examination. In the light of the findings and conclusions of the study, the following are recommended by the researcher that the students in the Teacher Education Program should exert more effort to learn better and master the basic concepts and competencies in both the general and professional courses, the Dean, Program Chair and the faculty must evaluate together the curriculum content to include the competencies in the general and professional components of the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). Furthermore, course audit should be a part of the curriculum with 6 credit units (Course Audit 1 and Course Audit 2) and a comprehensive review and comparison of the learning competencies spelled out in the course outline or syllabi used by faculty members be made against the desired learning competencies of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC).