Research Competence among Public Senior High Teachers of District 1 in Ifugao Province

Abstract

Teachers are one of the prime movers in helping students to come up with efficient and effective research outputs. In relation, the purpose of this study is to determine the research competence of public senior high teachers in District 1 of Ifugao Province. A descriptive design was used in the study. A questionnaire and assessment were used to gather data from 64 volunteer teachers from the different public schools with senior departments using a total enumeration sampling. The tool was both adapted and a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were analyzed through Excel and SPSS. The finding revealed that teachers have adequate knowledge and a positive attitude but with fair skill and assessment toward research. The teacher’s profiles such as number of years handling research, highest educational attainment, and number of researches produced have significant differences in their level of knowledge and assessment toward research except number of research-related training and seminar attended while only the number of years in handling research have significant differences on their level of skill toward research whereas the profiles have no significant differences on their level of attitude. In general, teachers need to increase their knowledge, skill, and assessment toward research by practicing and utilizing what they already know and joining still to research-related training and seminars while sustaining their positive attitude. A research seminar plan was proposed based on the results of the study.