Struggles of Grade 10 Students in Entering Senior High

School Strand

A Research Report

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for English 10

Author : Ramirez, Daniella D.

Author : Pornobe, Princess Aizylle B.

June 25, 2023

ABSTRACT

High school is a school that is being attended by students after elementary

school or a junior and senior high school that consists of grades 7 to 12 levels and in the

Philippines it is known as the secondary school that consists of lower secondary

education (Junior High School) grades 7 to 10 and upper secondary education (Senior

High School) grades 11 to 12. Junior high school is more generalized, with students more

or less studying the same subject matter which are English, Science, Filipino, AP, ESP,
TLE, Math, and MAPEH subjects, while senior high school is much more individualized.

Students that had passed grade 10 levels will now choose a senior high school strand.

Enrolling and choosing a senior high school strand is one of the most challenging

decisions that junior high school will have to face. The study aimed to know the factors

and percentage of CLIS students that struggles in choosing a senior high school strand.

This study will help to know the records of students that struggle in enrolling for a senior

high school strand and will help to know the tips and measures on how to enroll for a

senior high school strand without any hardships. The survey was conducted online (all

section of Grade 10 CLIS students) using data collection method with yes and no type of

questionnaire, subjective type of questionnaire, and recognition type of questionnaire.

The researchers also employed a validation using the statistics method and frequency

distribution method.

INTRODUCTION
I.

Choosing a senior high school strand is one of the most challenging decisions

that junior high school CLIS students will have to face. Choosing and enrolling for

senior high school strand is greatly important because the strand they choose will serve

as their training ground before entering college. This is following their diverse dreams

and interests in life that can still change over time (Deil-Amen, 2011). In relevance,

knowing and exploring one’s field of interest will nurture and help one land on the right

career that suits them.

In career selection, students have to undergo an intricate process, where they

should consider factors that would affect their overall decision such as the
sociodemographic profile, socio-economic status, parents, job opportunities, academic

performance, personal interest, and many other aspects to forcefully be open-minded

of the things they will encounter in a not too distant future (Moneva & Malbas, 2019;

Santric-Milicivic et al., 2014).

Once a student is already decided on what senior high school strand is to be

chosen then the students next step is to enroll. Enrolling is the step in which students

will do the requirement to enter in their preferred choice of strand that will be the

students preferred study training for their future college. And people know that

enrolments have its overviews, conditions, and constraints to enter in the preferred

senior high school strand. But since senior high school strand has its level of

conditions to enter the preferred strand of the students, In Conde Labac Integrated

School, there only has 3 different choice of strand which are: SMAW that stands for

Shielded Metal Arc Welding, is one of the specialized subjects under the Technical-

Vocational Livelihood (TVL) career track. ABM that stands for Accountancy, Business

and Management, is geared for students who are adept at financial management and

would like to pursue careers in the corporate world or perhaps pursue their own

entrepreneurial dreams. And STEM that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering,

and Mathematics, is a senior high school strand which focuses on the intertwining

disciplines revolving around the hard sciences. Students that are enrolled on this track

will be exposed to advanced concepts and topics that will help them explore careers as

pilots, architects, biologists, doctors, and engineers.

Most students basis are on how difficult the studies will be in each senior high

school strand levels. SMAW was known for students to be the easiest strand in which
they claim that it mostly engages on physical activities like venturing in wielding that

made students to enjoy practicing in wielding, ABM was known to be the moderately

difficult strand among students and in which they claim that it has a least studies in

mathematics and mostly engages in business activities with less math computations,

and lastly STEM was known to be the most difficult strand in which students claim that

it mostly engages in difficult mathematics that studies about the whole grades 7-10

studies of lessons in math and in which most of the junior high schools chooses the

least studies in mathematics.

As the students enroll for their preferred strand in senior high school, the

students also struggles in enrolling as strands has the strict conditions about the

student grades, characters, and performance in studies to enter the senior high strand.

Based on the research, since the senior high school strand has its preferred levels

either it is a lower level or a higher level, teachers said that ‘’ students are not the one

who will choose for their strand to enter but instead the school is the one that will

choose for their senior high school strand. And a student has to refer on their grades

and academic performance in choosing their senior high school strand which leads to

either committing for their chosen strand or not. And this research could be a helpful

solution for the students struggle in enrolling for their preferred senior high school

strand in which this study can be a guide for the students. This study can help the

students to improve their academic performances by the means of giving different kinds

of tips and measures to improve and make their validation on the chosen strand.
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study aims to determine the challenges or struggles experienced by the Grade

10 learners in entering/enrolling a strand in senior high school.

Specifically tis will seek answer to the following question:

1. What are the requirements that the Grade 10 students need to submit in enrolling in
their preferred Senior High School Strand in ensure of :

SMAW?
1.1
ABM?
1.2
STEM?
1.3
HUMMS?
1.4
2. What are the challenges that the Grade 10 students are facing in enrolling in Senior
High School Strand?

3. What are the factors behind the Grade 10 struggles in enrolling in senior high

school strand they preferred?

4. Bend on the findings of the percentage of students who are still struggling in

entering senior high school strand?

5. What measures or tips that grade 10 students could be used (considered)

alleviating their enrollment hinges?

METHODS
II.

Method used:
The method that was used in the research study was both qualitative and quantitative.

Instrument:

In this research the researchers used survey and questionnaire which are: Recognition

type of questionnaire; Yes and No type of questionnaire; and Subjective type of

questionnaire. And by delivering the questionnaires to the students or respondents, the

researchers only chose to create Google forms to deliver them online for an easy

communication instead of face-to-face interview.

Subject of the Study:

In this research the researchers made a population technique in which the researchers

conducted the computation of percentage of grade10 CLIS students that are struggling in

enrolling for senior high school and not to know the population record of the students that

has difficulties in choosing also for the senior high school strand.

Sampling Techniques:

In this research the researchers used a fishbowl sampling method, in which the fishbowl

sampling technique is being done by doing a lottery method, the researchers selects a

select number of slips randomly. Alternatively, the researcher will place all the slips of

paper in a bowl and draw random samples from it.

Data Collection:
Data collection is where the researchers serve the surveys or questionnaires to the

students or respondents to answer the following conducted questions of the researchers.

The researcher’s procedure is to:

1. First, identifying the topic of the research

2. Next, once the topic is identified then create the SOP of the topic
3. Then, create the questionnaires and use survey/forms to send the questionnaire to
the students or respondents

4. And once the questions had been answered by the students/respondents then,
collect the data and create a linear text and nonlinear text for better explanation of

the research study.

5. And since the researchers are using both quantitative and qualitative method for the
research then, create a table that shows the percentages of the respondents

answer, defining the highest and lowest responders of the topic.

6. And lastly, picture all the bibliographies and references of the researchers in

creating the research paper with its credits to the owners of the references used.

Statistical Treatment of Data:

As soon as the researchers gathered the data, the

survey was compiled, sorted, organized and tabulated. The survey was subject to

statistical treatment in order to answer the questions proposed in the study. The
 statistical tools employed were the frequency distribution, percentage, ordinal scale and

weight mean.

1. Frequency distribution is an arrangement of the data which shows the frequency of

different values or groups of variables.

2. Percentage is to be used to determine the proportion of each given data by using

the formula: %=(F/N) MULTIPLIED by 100

where:

% = percentage

F= No. of respondents

N = total number of cases

Percentage and frequency distribution of grade 10 students in particular range with

respect to their academic performance. And the research study was about

percentage.

III. RESULTS

Table 1. Grade 10 CLIS Students Strand to choose IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Table 1. Shows the number of grade 10 students that choose a senior high school

strand between ABM, STEM, SMAW, and HUMMS.

GRADE10
 STEM
 ABM
 SMAW
 HUMMS TOTA
LEVEL& L
SECTION

G10 St. Claire 5 4 5 1 15

G10 St. Anne 1 2 0 0 3

G10St. Therese 0 0 0 2 2

TOTAL 6 6 5 3 21

Table 1. Shows that from 21 students or respondents that answered the questions, St.

Claire section of grade 10 students has the highest total of 16 students among all

respondents. By computing the total percentage of the column and the row, since the st.

Claire section has the highest number of respondents the percentage won’t come out but

still the row has a respondents of 1.66% and 4% of the respondents in the column. The

interpretation says that the highest number/ percentage of respondents are on the column.

1. The second questionnaire where in thin the tablee question is about the

requirements that are needed in enrolling which has almost the same requirements,

the grades is the most needed among students who are enrolling that may be

above/higher than the copy of birth certificate.

QUESTION 1. Table 2. It shows the disagreement/agreement of the students.

GRADE 10 LEVEL AND YES NO TOTAL

SECTIONS

G10 St, Claire 7 9 16

G10 St. Anne 0 3 3

G10 St. Therese 1 1 2

TOTAL 8 13 21
 In table 2, the table shows that it has the highest number of respondents to say no on the

first question. As I computed the percentage, the columns percentage was 1.53% while the

row has no percentage. The table interprets that the number of students has the highest

saying to disagreement or no to the first question which is the question if students area still

undecided on what strand to choose.

QUESTIO 2. Table 3. it shows the disagreement/ agreement of the students.

GRADE 10 LEVELS AND YES NO TOTAL

SECTIONS

G10 St. Claire 8 8 16

G10 St. Anne 2 1 3

G10 St. Therese 1 1 2

TOTAL 11 10 21

In table 3. it shows that the both students of st,. Claire are the same. And in the table it also

shows that in deciding on which school to enter is also difficult for the students. And in this

result

DISCUSSIONS
IV.

Findings

From the data gathered, the following findings were obtained.

1. The requirements that the grade 10 students needed to submit in enrolling in their
preferred senior high school are the outputs, grades with passing scores for the
 strand the student will choose, Xerox of PSA, enrollment form, birth certificate, and

no fail grades.

2. The challenges that the grade 10 students are facing in enrolling for the senior high
school strand are the lack of understanding on what strand to choose, difficulties in

knowing the students interest in things, which school to enroll, difficulty in achieving

a required grades for the strand, difficulty on passing a passing grade on math, and

lastly the requirements to pass are not complete.

3. The factors behind the grade 10 students struggles in entering senior high school
strand are the difficulty in achieving a required grades for the strand, difficulty on

passing a passing grade on math, lack of understanding about what strand to

choose in senior high school and a complete requirements.

4. The percentage of students that are struggling to enter in senior high school stand
are in the midst of 52% in which the researchers conducted that there are still half

of the grade 10 students population that are struggling in enrolling for their senior

high school strand choice.

5. The measures and tips that the grade 10 students can do to alleviate their

enrollment form are by the means of studying hard in order to get a passing grades,

completing the incomplete requirements, completing the missing outputs, doing the

missing activities, and also following the instructions of teachers in order to

complete it.

Conclusions

Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusions were drawn.

1. By using the student response on about this topic and questions.

2. The students also said that they based on the past senior high school to choose
which strand is much easier to study other than relying on what they want in the

future.

3. therefore the researchers conclude that students still need much more advanced
guide to the strand they are going to choose for their future and for better

understanding of the students interests for their future job to be accomplished

successfully.

Recommendations

From the findings and conclusions of the study, the following recommendations are

offered.

1. This research study is recommended to all grade 10 students and a becoming to

be a grade 10 student, this research study will help students to understand the

path they are going to enter for their better and successful future.

2. This research study can also be recommended on the their grade level student
either senior or junior high school student can read this for advanced learning.

3. And this research paper can also be recommended among the future

researchers for references for their research paper.

References / Bibliography
 ASEAN Journal of Educational research and Technology: Princes Aires Mlaguial’’,

Goji Gacoscos, Edward Martinez, Hassanal Abusama, Anamarie Valdez.

(Submitted / received 05 jul 2022, First revised 09 Aug 2022, Accepted 20 Aug

2022, First available online 23 Aug 2022, Publication date 01Mar 2023)Senior High

School Strands: Factors Affecting the Students Preference, Sultan Kudarat State

University, The Philippines, volume 66.

Appendices

Appendix A. Questionnaire

Instructions: Choose the strand you are going to choose for senior high school.

 STEM

 ABM

 SMAW

 HUMMS

Instructions: Answer the following question.

What are the requirements needed for enrolling in senior high school with the strand

you choose?

Instructions: Choose yes if you agree with the question and no if not.

1. Are you still undecided on what strand you are going to choose?
 yes
 no
2. Are you having a hard time in choosing which school to enter in senior high school?
 yes
 no
3. Are you already decided on what strand you are going to choose?
 yes
 no
4. Are you already decided on which school to enter in senior high school?
 yes
 no
Instructions: choose your answer on the following given question.

What are the possible measures you can use if you are still having a hard time in

enrolling in senior high school strand?

 study hard to get passing grades

 complete the requirements

 complete missing outputs

 do the missing activities

 follow the teachers instructions

Appendix B.