A Proposed Practicum Manual for The Business Administration Students of Metro Manila College

Education is the most valuable asset that an individual of today can possess. The realization of formal education and its importance has reached the core of the society. However, the fact still remains that formal education has not reached many backward and poverty-ridden areas of society. In this view, Metro Manila College with its aim to help in molding people to become better individuals in their own fields, established and academic institution that was initially catered to elementary and high school, and eventually offering different tertiary programs. The respondents of the study were the faculty members of the Business Administration of the different schools offering the program. It includes Olivarez College Sucat and Tagaytay campuses as the present school of the researcher, Bestlink College of the Philippines, a nearby school to where the researcher is presently enrolled and Metro Manila College. A total number of twenty (20) faculty members were included in the study representing 100% of the total population. The descriptive method of research was used to evaluate the proposed BA Practicum Manual in terms of objectives, contents, activities, style of presentation, organization, and creativity and in terms of its suitability, feasibility and acceptability. This method is often combined with comparison and contrast involving measurements, classifications, interpretation and evaluation. Thus the researcher employed a combination of descriptive techniques such as normative survey, evaluation survey and content analysis. The researcher developed sets of survey questionnaire to gather the data from the respondents. The questionnaire was categorized into three (3) parts. Part I consisted of the profile of the respondents. This included respondent's age, sex, highest educational attainment, and length of service as BA faculty. Part II consisted of the instrument to evaluate the contents of the manual. Part III consisted of the suggestions/recommendations to further improve the proposed BA Practicum Manual. Higher quest for academic excellence is every institution's dream. It needs a thorough preparation before reaching the top of the ladder. Instruction, faculty, research, library holdings and the like are expected to meet the highest percentage of superiority. A testing period must be given in order to test its usability and adoptability of the manual and it should be handy. Interview was also conducted to those who did not write anything on it, mentioned that the manual is very objective and useful for faculty, trainee and cooperating agency.