Online published on 24 October, 2017.
The main objective of this research is to find out the contributory factors affecting the dropout rates of students enrolled in the National Service Training Program-Civic Welfare Training Service in Baguio City, Philippines. The respondents of the study included one hundred thirty-nine (139) males and two hundred twenty-five (225) females who are enrolled in the NSTP-CWTS course during the first semester of Academic Year 2015–2015. The questionnaire was used as the main data gathering tool. Data were subject to frequency count, weighted means, and comparison through t-test.
Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that students understood the importance of Civic Welfare Training Service to the community and to themselves. Students perform better in some areas of the course due to some factors such as adequacy of materials to use, their motivation, field of interest, and level of knowledge on the certain area. Students drop out from the course CWTS because of time management problems, teacher-related issues, subject-related factors, and family-related issues. In particular, It was revealed that these issues have contributed in the dropout rates such as lack of financial support or low educational attainment of parents; time management issues such as lack of time for working students or inability to manage time for others; lack of motivation and low performance. It was concluded that students, teachers, parents and schools can help in lessening the impact of the factors that cause the students to dropout from CWTS course.
Based from the conclusions, it was recommended that students should continue to appreciate the contents and benefits they obtain from Civic Welfare Training Services. Students should be flexible enough to adapt to the areas of the program that were required for them to complete. Students should understand that motivation and determination can help them in their pursuit of their career while parents should always guide their children in their battle of the challenges of college education. Teachers should help students in developing a positive self-knowledge and schools should support the strategies of teachers. The school should promptly and responsibly carry out their part to help students overcome the problems and challenges for college life while students should be open to advices and intervention from these people.
Factors on Dropout rates, NSTP, CWTS
