Variables Affecting the Learner’s Competencies in Alternative Learning Sysytem, Nagcarlan – Rizal District, Nagcarlan, Laguna C.Y. 2009
CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS
Introduction
The Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) of Department of Education aims to provide quality education to its target learners, the out-of-school youth and adults in order to promote their well being as individuals and as members of the family, community, and country. It has two major non-formal education programs namely, the Basic Literacy Program (BLP) and the Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Program. The BLP is a program aimed at eradicating illiteracy among out-of-school youth (OSY) and adults (in extreme cases school-aged children) by developing basic literacy skills of reading, writing and numeracy. The A&E Program is a program aimed at providing an alternative pathway of learning for out-of-school youth and adults who are basically literate but who have not completed the ten (10) years of basic education mandated by Philippine Constitution. Through this program, school dropouts are able to complete elementary and high school education outside the formal system. It is a system of certification of learning for OSY and adults aged 16 years and above who are unable to avail of the formal school system, or who have dropped out of formal elementary or secondary education. (DepEd – Bureau of Alternative Learning System, 1998)
Every year the Department of Education, through Alternative Learning System conducted Accreditation and Equivalency Test Administration. It composes of two learning levels which are elementary and secondary levels. The test is standardized paper and pencil-based test in multiple choice and composition writing. Last 2009, 20% of the total test takers nationwide passed the Accreditation and Equivalency Test.
The researcher got the attention that many of the learners who took the test failed. Maybe the cause of it is the profile of the learners. The numbers of years spend outside the school or the grade/year level last attended in the school, and their present status whether
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS
Introduction
The Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) of Department of Education aims to provide quality education to its target learners, the out-of-school youth and adults in order to promote their well being as individuals and as members of the family, community, and country. It has two major non-formal education programs namely, the Basic Literacy Program (BLP) and the Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Program. The BLP is a program aimed at eradicating illiteracy among out-of-school youth (OSY) and adults (in extreme cases school-aged children) by developing basic literacy skills of reading, writing and numeracy. The A&E Program is a program aimed at providing an alternative pathway of learning for out-of-school youth and adults who are basically literate but who have not completed the ten (10) years of basic education mandated by Philippine Constitution. Through this program, school dropouts are able to complete elementary and high school education outside the formal system. It is a system of certification of learning for OSY and adults aged 16 years and above who are unable to avail of the formal school system, or who have dropped out of formal elementary or secondary education. (DepEd – Bureau of Alternative Learning System, 1998)
Every year the Department of Education, through Alternative Learning System conducted Accreditation and Equivalency Test Administration. It composes of two learning levels which are elementary and secondary levels. The test is standardized paper and pencil-based test in multiple choice and composition writing. Last 2009, 20% of the total test takers nationwide passed the Accreditation and Equivalency Test.
The researcher got the attention that many of the learners who took the test failed. Maybe the cause of it is the profile of the learners. The numbers of years spend outside the school or the grade/year level last attended in the school, and their present status whether