Research Writing Skills of Teachers in Selected Public Schools in the City of Taguig: Basis for Capability Training Program

This study investigated the level of teachers’ research writing skills to develop a capability training program targeted to enhance teachers’ writing skills. It specifically assessed teachers’ research writing skills in terms of formulation of research problem, data analysis and interpretation, research process, and recommendation and output. Utilizing a descriptive quantitative design of research, data were gathered from 219 teacher-respondents from three (3) public elementary schools in Taguig City. The findings of the study revealed that in terms of the demographic profile of the teacher-respondents, the majority of the teacher-respondents are Teacher I; have been in the service for 1-5 years; with units in Masters; and have attended trainings mostly relevant to writing a research title. In terms of assessment of teachers’ level of research writing skills, the teacher-respondents said that they are all capable in all indicators of research writing skills such as formulation of research problem, data analysis and interpretation, research process, and recommendation and output. In terms of challenges encountered in research writing, selecting the topic and making the title suitable for a specific research interest ranked first, while difficulty in determining the scale of a questionnaire ranked the 10th. Meanwhile, in terms of relationship between the profile of the respondents and their level of research writing skills, only teachers’ educational attainment is not significantly related to all of the four (4) components of teachers’ level of research writing skills. The study highlights the need for an intensive training on how to formulate research problems and find correlations and differences of research variables in the research problems; a separate training and learning session to capacitate teachers in crafting research instrument and the processes involved in making the research instrument reliable and valid; the need for the Division of Taguig City and Pateros to address the difficulty of the teachers in crafting research output by providing and sending teachers to trainings solely for crafting research output and its compositions; more trainings and seminars relevant to crafting research titles must be developed so that teachers will have knowledge on how to choose and craft research titles; the research capability training program prepared by the researcher may be tried and adapted by the Division of Taguig City and Pateros and the Department of Education (DepEd) in general to see its workability and effectiveness; and this study can be replicated and the future researchers may embark on a more comprehensive study utilizing more schools and respondents to negate or affirm the findings of the current study.