Self-Efficacy of Filipino Senior High School Students: Differences Among Tracks/Strand and Type of School

The study sought to determine the self–efficacy of Grade 11 senior high school students in the academic (mastery of experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and somatic-emotional states), and health component in an urban school in the Philippines. Using a ten-point self-efficacy scale, administered to a sample of 150 students from three public and three private schools in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the study reveals that senior high school students have a moderate level of self-efficacy. Also, the general self-efficacy of students does not differ across school type; however, a significant difference occurs within the component of self-efficacy, i.e., vicarious experience and verbal persuasion across school type. The analysis reveals that students from public schools have high self-efficacy level regarding vicarious experience as compared to students from private schools. On the contrary, students from private schools yield a much higher self-efficacy score than their counterpart in the verbal persuasion component of the self-efficacy scale. Also, a significant difference across tracks/strand occurs in the verbal persuasion component. As a conclusion, Grade 11 students have a moderate self-efficacy, implying that they are confident of succeeding academically. Second, for a homogenous group, age and self-efficacy are not associated. Third, merely belonging to a particular school and a specific track generates or boosts self-efficacy in one way or the other. Keywords: self-efficacy, senior high school, Philippine education, K-12, test and scale DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-8-02 Publication date :March 31 st 2019