Philippine E-Journals

Predictors Of Electronics Engineering Board Examination Performance

Glenda A. Rebucas | Jeffrey L. Cacho | Ryan F. Arago | Leonard A. Catchilar

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

The Licensure Examination for Engineers is a tool that measures and ensures the quality of engineers who would join the workforce of various manufacturing industries in the Philippines and abroad. The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) as the duly constituted body created for this function has been consistent in its task of screening who among the graduates from all board courses will be in granted the professional licenses based on the board exam results. (Laguardo et al, 2013). It is a standard mark of a professional recognized by the government and public to introduce excellence, rules of behavior, guidelines of recruitment and measures of member protection, assuring a high sense of dedication, responsibility, skills, and quality towards one's profession. (Dayaday, 2018). In Quezon City University, formerly known as the Quezon City Polytechnic University, came into existence on March 1, 1994, by City Council Ordinance No. SP-171. The institution was created to undertake skilled workers' training in response to the manpower requirement by industry and business establishments within the city including programs with board examinations. At present, the College of Engineering offers a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering (BSECE) which requires a board examination for its graduates. As the mission of the institution is to be the number one local university of employable graduates, the university is always targeting high performance in the board examination. As a result, the researchers conducted this study to analyze the factors contributing to the performance in the ECE Board Examination. This study also aimed to analyze those factors that affect the Licensure Examination of the Electronics Engineering QCU graduates from April 2016 to April 2022 concerning the assessment of the respondents to the following factors: curriculum, instructional materials, faculty, facilities and laboratories, admission and retention policy, review preparation, study habits, and academic behavior. The researcher conducts this study via use of survey (Google form) with a target participant of 150 to provide their perception about the factors of those respondents in taking an ECE Board exam. On its interpretation of data, the overall gender of the respondents of the study concludes that most of them are male respondents (72%). In terms of their Higher Educational Attainment, most of the respondents are in their college degree, with a percentage of 96%. This concludes the study that most of them are in college. In terms of the number of respondents who took the ECE Board Examination, most of the respondents already take one time of examination (80% based on the data interpreted). This also provided that the respondent already took in the year 2016 with a percentage of 44%. This study only determines that the majority of the board examinee are males and they want to undergo review to the different ECE review center. This also concluded that there is a big difference between professor lectures and the review master in terms of style of teaching.