Paper Title: Analysis of the National Diagnostic Aptitude Test (NDAT) of Pre-Service Teachers:Basis for Program Enhancement

AUTHOR(S)

Prescila I. Marcelo, EdD, Ryan Jayson V. Delos Reyes,PhD, Rolando D. De Guzman, MAMath, Analyn Capitulo, JD, Graciane Joy D. De Guzman, MA Math

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to analyze the performance level of the Pre-Service Teachers of Urdaneta City University. This sought to answer the following problems: (1) profile of the respondents in terms of their program and area of specialization, (2) performance level of the preservice teachers on the following subjects: English, Social Studies , Biological Science, Physics, Mathematics, Filipino, PPST, K-12 and OBE, and (3) proposed innovation to improve the Enhancement Program of the College of Teacher Education. The instrument used was the National Diagnostic Aptitude Test administered by the Carl Balita Review Center in the Enhancement Program of the College of Teacher Education of the Urdaneta City University during the school year 2019 – 2020. It was composed of a total of 100 items: number of items in each of the different subject areas: English (10items), Social Studies (10items), Biological Science(5items), Mathematics (10items), Filipino(10items), PPST(36items), K-12 (4items) and OBE (10items).
After a systematic and in-depth analysis of the data gathered, the investigations finally come up with the following results: (1) Majority of the 4th year Pre-Service Teachers are under the Bachelor in Secondary Education Program with 99 or 60%. Most of them are under the PEHM Major with 23.6%, followed by the Social Studies Majors with 18 or 10.9% and with the least number, English Majors with only 7 or 4.2%. (2) The respondents’ performance level on the National Diagnostic Aptitude Test are low when it comes to the subjects English, Social Studies, Biological Science, Physics, Mathematics, K-12 and OBE.
The following conclusions were drawn based on the salient findings: (1) The respondents of the study are BSEd Program dominated. Most of them are PEHM majors and few of them are English Majors. (2) The respondents got a low performance level on all of the subjects in the National Diagnostic Aptitude Test and are highly performing on the subjects Filipino and PPST. The following are the recommendations drawn based on the salient findings and conclusions: (1) An intense and advanced enhancement on the following subjects must be implemented. (2) The institution should implement a joint development of initial teacher licensing tests for knowledge and skill areas they need to have. (3) The College of Teacher Education should have an annual monitoring assessment to measure learning outcomes for the department to be able to identify which topics or subjects to enhance.