IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEREST-BASED SECTIONING TO THE GRADE 12 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS STUDENTS OF PASIG CATHOLIC COLLEGE SCHOOL YEAR

= Abstract = As per the direction of the Department of Education and the Government, there would be 13 years of basic education or what is popularly known as K to 12. A student under this curriculum will undergo Kindergarten, Grades 1 to 6 or Elementary Education, Grades 7 to 10 or Junior High School, and Grades 11 to 12 or Senior High School.

The Senior High School directs the students to their chosen career after High School. Students have the option to pursue Tertiary Education, establish a business or find employment. Thus, strands were created to maximize the learning experience that each Senior High School student will get from the additional two years of High School education.

In response to this, the researchers studied the STEM strand and its present situation in Pasig Catholic College. The STEM strand (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) focuses on hard sciences. With science being a vast body of knowledge, the basic knowledge needed by the STEM students may not be met.

The researchers devised a method that would further maximize the learning of the students. The system is called Interest-Based Sectioning, wherein students from the STEM strand will be grouped according to the tertiary program that they plan to pursue in college. Since there are numerous possible courses that the students would take, the researchers presented four major choices that would determine the students&#39; sections. These are H.I.S. (Health-Inclined Sciences), G.E. (General Engineering), T.C.S. (Technology and Computer Sciences), and E.S. (Earth Sciences).

The researchers sought out respondents, whose narratives helped them construct a framework on how to implement the IBS in Pasig Catholic College Senior High School Grade 12 STEM strand for school year 2018-2019.