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THE
results of the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE)
confirmed a long-standing perception, that the quality
of education in both public and private schools has
dropped significantly and consequently resulted as well
in undeveloped aptitudes in students. The tests were
administered on January 17 to 1.31 million fourth- year
high-school students.
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus could only shake his
head as he apparently was at a loss for words at what he
read from a report. Another telling note is that private
school students who normally are better taught are now
almost as badly trained as public school students.
The
report by the department’s National Education Testing
and Research Center showed the mean percentage score of
the high-school examinees from public schools were 43.35
percent in the general scholastic aptitude test against
the 52.36-percent score of the private schools student
examinees.
In the
technical vocation test, the public high-school students
had an average score of 71.7 percent and those in
private schools 79.29 percent.
The
entrepreneurial skills test showed them almost neck and
neck—75.48 percent public schools, 79.81 percent private
schools.
Overall
results showed more than half of the examinees from both
private and public schools manifested poor aptitude for
college studies.
The
results gave the Genuine Opposition (GO) an opening to
slam the administration anew as they blamed the policies
of the Arroyo administration defective.
“It is
truly appalling that a government agency itself found
that only 3.76 percent have ‘high aptitude’ for higher
education while 478,909 or 36.69 percent have moderate
aptitude,” said Adel Tamano, GO spokesman. |
