Determinants of Students Performance in Information and Communication Technology Program in DEPED Secondary Schools

This study investigated the relationship between the observed organizational attributes and determinants of students performance in the information and communications technology program along five factors: provision of equipment, training of teachers, administrative support, monitoring and Evaluation assessment, and leadership style of school heads and learner’s academic performance in terms of mean percentile scores involving 59 classroom teachers in five public secondary schools in DepEd Eastern Samar division during the school year 2023-2024. The data concerning the respondents’ perceived observation on the determinant factors of students’ performance in ICT program were collected via an expert validated researcher-modified survey instrument and analyzed using frequency count, percentage, mean, spearman rho correlation at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that all of the organizational attributes and determinant factors were “moderately observed” with a mean of 3.3146 and the learner’s academic performance in ICT were “satisfactory” at an average of 78.98%. Test on correlation indicated that training of teachers (p=0.45) as a determinant of success is significantly related to the learner’s academic performance in ICT. All the other determinant factors have p-values greater than the level of significance i.e., provision of equipment (p=.864), administrative support (p=.134), M & E Assessment (p=.191) and leadership style of school head (p=.160) and are not significantly related to the performance of learners in the DepEd secondary schools. Thus, the null hypothesis saying that there is no significant relationship between these determinant factors to the academic performance of learners in DepEd secondary schools is therefore true and accepted. Hence, the researcher recommends the conduct of extensive ICT training programs for teachers for them to teach better and to advance the digital literacy in Philippine schools.