The Extent of Implementation of Enhanced Basic Education Program and Its Correlates

Abstract

The Department of Education in the Philippines, with its major aim to enhance the quality of basic education and make the country at par with other countries, has paved the way to the Enhanced Basic Education Program or the K to 12. In its initial phase of implementation, this paper seeks to assess the extent of implementation on curriculum and instruction; standards and assessment; learning environment; governance, operations and administration; human resource management and development; and finance. As front lines of the academe, school heads and teachers assessed these aspects. Findings reveal that this program is implemented to a high extent as assessed by school heads and teachers. In terms of schools’ performance, enrollment rate had an increasing trend. Achievement, repetition and drop-out rates vary for the past three years. School heads’ evaluation of teachers’ performance based from CB-PAST is very satisfactory. Learners were assessed as fairly competent in learning and literacy while competent in life skills.