Abstract
The K-12 curriculum prepares students with the technical knowledge and skills requirements for various opportunities of the 21st century, thus exploring the identified profile variables and the perception of the Technical Drawing competencies in preparation for the Technical Vocational training courses intended for respondents. A descriptive method approach was employed, and a close-ended type of questionnaire to gather data from Grade 9 student respondents selected using random sampling. The findings reveal a significant relationship between some of the students' perceptions of technical drawing competencies and the identified profile variables, such as the students' perception of the adequacy of strongly linked facilities to mensuration, freehand drawing, lettering, construct geometric figures and construct pictorial drawing competencies. Gender is well associated with freehand drawing, specifically among female respondents, while the final grade was correlated with their perception of freehand drawing and mensuration competencies. The result led to the rejection of the null hypothesis. However, some of the competencies which have no significant relationship with the identified profile variables according to the perception of the respondents could be an interesting gap to conduct further research to those who are currently taking the technical drawing as the Grade 7 and 8 students for a different set of perceptions of same competencies. Students' perception of competencies is considered vital to efficiently enhance the teaching methodologies, content, and logistics necessary to deliver Technical Drawing learning competencies.
Highlights
The encompassing goal of the K-12 Curriculum is the holistic development of every student with the skills of the 21st century for work, entrepreneurship, development of middle-level skills, and higher education [22]
The technical drawing is a prerequisite for the technical training courses offered in Technical Vocational Education under the Strengthened Technical Vocational-Education Program (STVEP) curriculum
The research explores the coherence of profile variables identified with the students' perception of technical drawing competencies
Summary
The encompassing goal of the K-12 Curriculum is the holistic development of every student with the skills of the 21st century for work, entrepreneurship, development of middle-level skills, and higher education [22]. The technical drawing is a prerequisite for the technical training courses offered in Technical Vocational Education under the STVEP curriculum Technical drawing, such as Drafting Technology, provides students the opportunity to learn the skills required by today's high-tech engineering, architecture, and manufacturing industries, Sira [10]. Teachers' educational qualification and effectiveness have so much to contribute to the learning process and academic metamorphosis that learners' low performance is attributed directly to the weak educational competence, Kalule et al.[5] whereas developed competencies were vital and related to future employment, requiring technical knowledge and skills, Sira et al.[11]. This study's findings may improve teaching methods and approaches from which future proposals could be formulated to correlate students' educational need for technical knowledge and skills to the technical drawing teachers. Parents are partners of the educational thrust; this study would encourage them to morally and financially support their children enrolled in the program
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