Development Needs Analysis on the Confidence and Leadership Capabilities of Maritime Students with High and Low Academic Performance

Students with different performance levels have varying degrees of development needsin order to discover their full potential as future leaders and professional. This study aims to determine thecomparison between Maritime Students with high and low academic performance in developing theirconfidence in terms of social and personal needs; and leadership capabilities in terms of cognitive, affectiveand psychomotor domains. Descriptive type of research was utilized in the study with 150 samplepopulation as respondents. Maritime students have higher development needs in terms of cognitiveleadership capability as well as confidence for personal and social development. The low performing students have significantly higher needs in terms of developing their confidence compared to high performing students as well as in cognitive leadership capability. Allowing the maritime students to participate in the international academic activities like attending research conferences would provide them the exposure and experience to meet and communicate with various professionals from different nationalities. Giving them the chance to actively participate in the community extension activities as support to classroom instruction that will also provide a better view of the society on how they will apply the knowledge and theories they learned from the University and contribute to the welfare of the community and as part of their personal and social development.

Keywords: Development needs, Confidence, Leadership Capability, Maritime, social development