Abstract:
The Senior High School (SHS) curriculum was part of the revisions made by the Philippine
government under RA 10533, which added two years of education to the previous curriculum.
This program aimed to prepare graduates for tertiary education, employment, or
entrepreneurship. However, recently, the effectiveness of the SHS curriculum was being
questioned as the K-12 program was being revisited. As such, the researcher wanted to
contribute to the discussion of the effectiveness of the program by evaluating its effectiveness in
delivering on its promise of preparing its graduates for employment through a quantitative
descriptive-comparative self-perception study. To fulfill this contribution, the study assessed the
differences in job performance of 99 Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees,
comprising 49 SHS and 50 college graduates before AY 2021-2022, while also assessing the
relationship between job performance and educational attainment through the lenses of Human
Capital Theory by Becker. Through a t-test, it was observed that there was no significant
difference in the job performance between SHS and college graduates who did not undergo
SHS. For the correlation of the variables, findings indicate that there is no significant relationship
between the two. These findings suggested further research into the relationship of both
variables in the BPO industry, with other factors possibly mediating the effect of education in job
performance.
