PSYCHO-SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT PROFILING OF SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN DISTRICT I OF BATAAN TOWARDS SCHOOL’S FRIENDLY INITIATIVES

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The study determined and analyzed the level of the psycho-social environment among selected public secondary schools in District I of Bataan, Philippines. Specifically, it focused on the profile of the schools described in terms of classification, number of personnel, number of students and performance in NAT (National Achievement Test); the profile of the teachers and administrators in terms of age, sex, civil status, highest educational attainment, length of experience, income / salary and relevant seminars and trainings attended; the psycho-social environmental profiling of selected secondary public schools described in terms of psychological, emotional and environmental; and the developed school friendly initiatives. Descriptive method of research was utilized, using simple random sampling technique in determining the needed respondents and survey questionnaire as the research instrument. In light of the findings, the researcher concluded that majority of the public secondary schools in District I of the division of Bataan were classified as autonomous, have more than 50 personnel, have a total number of students ranging from 1000 to 2000, and ranked 20th to 30th in the results of the NAT. Meanwhile, the teacher and administrator respondents are from the age range of 30 to 39 years old, females, married, in-progress of their master’s degree, have rendered a service of 3 to 10 years, had earned within Php20,001.00 to 30,000.00 brackets and had training and seminars at the division level; all aspects of psycho-social environment provided to the learners were observed by teachers and administrators, particularly on the environmental assessment; and there was a limited significant difference in the psycho-social environment profiling when the profiles of the respondents are grouped accordingly as the data disclosed no significant difference when grouped according to age, sex, civil status, highest educational attainment, while a significant difference was found when grouped according to the length of experience, and a limited significant difference exists when grouped according to income or salary and relevant training and seminars attended.

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