The Department of Education is aware of the need to conduct an exhaustive inventory of the technical vocational high schools in order to develop a feasible, manageable and realistic program of reform for TVEHSs. The outcome of the study would bring about a better secondary-level technical vocational education program suited to the preparation of young people of today’s world.
Research as a Tool to reform Technical Vocational High Schools In order to implement a meaningful reform program, a research-based evidence is needed. This would help gather information from technical- vocational high schools (TVHSs) about their curriculum, training sites, physical facilities, infrastructure and teacher qualifications. SEAMEO INOTECH designed a nationwide meta-survey of technical vocational high schools in the country specifically to:
Conduct a systematic assessment of the condition of public technicalvocational high schools throughout the Philippines
Determine regional and national profiles of technical- vocational high schools
Recommend strategies, policies and programs that will assist the sector
Landscape of Philippine Technical and Vocational High Schools The Survey of Technical-Vocational High-School Programs in the Philippines utilized the quantitative research model to gather data on all the 334 technical-vocational high schools in the 17 regions throughout the country. Unfortunately, only 210 or around 63% of this total submitted completed survey forms to SEAMEO INNOTECH’s Research Studies unit. In addition, none of the seven schools in the ARMM submitted completed survey forms. In conclusion, only 16 or around 94% of the total number of regions were included as survey respondents. The survey utilized the instrument designed and submitted by SEAMEO INNOTECH to the DepED for approval (refer to Appendix D). These survey forms were sent to all the technical-vocational high schools throughout the country for completion and submission via fax on or before February 2, 2007. The data contained in the completed survey forms were inputted and ran through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software for analysis. After the data have been thoroughly verified and analyzed, the survey results and findings (contained herein) were used to come up with feasible policy recommendations