The Effectiveness of the 2009 Revised BS Psychology Curriculum and the Level of Competency of the Junior and Senior Students

Abstract

The curriculum is the “source of life” for the school, which inherently determines its success or failure. Assessment of the effectiveness of a Psychology Curriculum will measure the level of Competency of the psychology graduates. The chief purpose of this study was to find out whether the 2009 revised BS Psychology curriculum is effective in developing the level of competency among 45 junior and senior psychology majors of Liceo de Cagayan University, Philippines, SY 2012-2013. It employed the descriptive design. Survey questionnaires were utilized as tools to gather the data which were collated and treated using the mean and regression analysis.The resultsreveal the computed p-value of the measured aspects of 2009 Revised Psychology Curriculum and its relationship to the overall level of competency of the Junior and Senior Psychology students. It can be gleaned that all of the areas/indicators of Curriculum such as Content (p-value=0.608), Facilities (p-value=0.316), Faculty Professionalism and Behavior (p-value=0.378) have no significant relationship to the level of competency since the p-values exceeded the 0.05 level of significance. It is logical to assume that what brought about these changes in their attitude, skills, and knowledge is the impact that the curriculum has made on their competencies. The study recommends that future researchers have to identify other indicators (e.g. syllabi content per major subject) of a curriculum which may predict or may have a significant relationship with the level of competency of psychology