Research Competency of Senior High School Teachers in Sorsogon City

This study is aimed to determine the level of research-competency of senior high school teachers teaching research subjects along competencies; profiles of the senior high school research teachers in terms of educational qualification, seminars and trainings attended relevant to Research, Publications in Research Journals, achievements and awards received relevant to Research, work experience relevant to research, and determine the research competency level of teachers when group according to their profiles. This utilized a descriptive method and has 100 senior high school teacher- researchers as respondents. This study found that teachers perceived their research competency level of moderate at 2.61 as the overall weighted competency score, 44.33 % or 43 teachers have attended national seminars or training in research and development, while the lowest percentage of 7.22 % or 12 have only attended local seminars, and majority of the respondents or 68 % have no work experience relevant to research. This concluded that the research teachers of the seniors have moderate competency in research, majority of the research teachers were pursuing advanced education courses, majority attending seminars, some conducting action research, but few have work experiences in research, few achievements and awards relevant to research, and no research publications, and research competency level of the teachers is seemingly affected by the educational attainment, the seminars attended by the faculty, and the research work experience of the teachers. This study is aimed to determine the level of research-competency of senior high school teachers teaching research subjects along competencies; profiles of the senior high school research teachers in terms of educational qualification, seminars and trainings attended relevant to Research, Publications in Research Journals, achievements and awards received relevant to Research, work experience relevant to research, and determine the research competency level of teachers when group according to their profiles. This utilized a descriptive method and has 100 senior high school teacher- researchers as respondents. This study found that teachers perceived their research competency level of moderate at 2.61 as the overall weighted competency score, 44.33 % or 43 teachers have attended national seminars or training in research and development, while the lowest percentage of 7.22 % or 12 have only attended local seminars, and majority of the respondents or 68 % have no work experience relevant to research. This concluded that the research teachers of the seniors have moderate competency in research, majority of the research teachers were pursuing advanced education courses, majority attending seminars, some conducting action research, but few have work experiences in research, few achievements and awards relevant to research, and no research publications, and research competency level of the teachers is seemingly affected by the educational attainment, the seminars attended by the faculty, and the research work experience of the teachers.

Keywords: descriptive research, public school, research competency descriptive research, public school, research competency