Performance on Licensure Examination for Teachers Between Education and Non- Education Graduates from One State College

One hundred percent passing percentage in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) is the aspiration of every Teacher Education Institutions for its graduates. During pre-service education, pre-service teachers are made to engage on rigid trainings, seminars and field exposures aligned to Policies Standards and Guidelines of the Commission on Higher Education. This resulted to average performance of BSEd first takers in the LET while below passing among non-education takers. The study determined the differences in the performance on the licensure examination for teachers of Education and Non-Education graduates of a state college in the Philippines. The respondents of the study were the 461 first takers in the LET both passers and non-passers from March 2014 to September 2018 of whom 283 were graduates of Bachelor of Secondary Education and 178 were Non-Education Graduates from the same institution. Total enumeration was adopted in the study. A secondary data from Professional Regulatory Commission in the three areas as General Education, Professional Education and Specialization were analyzed. Findings revealed that Education graduates performed better in General Education and Professional Education but weak in Specialization while the Non-education graduates have low rating performance in all the three areas covered by the board examination. Comparing the performances of the two groups in General Education, Education graduates got above average while non-education was below passing, Professional Education, Education graduates was average whereas Non-education was below passing while in Specialization, both have below passing rating. For its over-all performance, Education obtained an average rating while Non-education got below passing rating. Data imply that the below passing performance of Non-Education in the board examination contributed to the low performance of the College in the LET. Thus, the curriculum of non-
education be revisited, non-education performance maybe separated from BSEd, and assess instructions’ alignment to LET competencies especially in specialization.

Keywords –Curriculum, Education Graduates, Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), Non-\Education Graduates, State College