Undesirable Factors Affecting the Performance Level of Public Secondary School Teachers in Northern Luzon, Philippines

The rise of Global competition and quality education has prompted educational leaders and teachers to continuously improve their performance. The performance-based education has become a trend to motivate them in achieving outstanding level of performance or at least sustaining their very satisfactory level of performance as manifested in their annual report of the Results-based Performance Management System (RPMS) which is a tool of ensuring the attainment of educational vision, mission, goals and objectives. Basically, high performing educators beget high performing students. On the other hand, low performing educators tend to produce low performing learners and this is quite alarming since one of the major causes of students’ low performance has been the product of low-performing teachers. Though, everyone wants to be a top-performing, it can never be denied that not all have successfully made it. What makes the teachers non-performing needs to be investigated. Hence, the research aimed to determine the degree of effect of the different undesirable factors affecting the performance level of Public Secondary School Teachers in Northern Luzon, Philippines as perceived by the teachers and school administrators. The study was conducted in the different schools of various provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in Luzon, Philippines where the floated questionnaires had been answered by 1,000 respondents. The null hypothesis had been tested using the t-Test to compare significant differences of means between the two groups of respondents. The findings of the study had indicated that the degree of effect of the different undesirable factors such as person-related, school-related, student-related and community-related factors affecting the performance level of Public Secondary School Teachers in Northern Luzon, Philippines as perceived by the teachers and administrators had affected much the teachers’ performance level as shown by the combined total average weighted mean of 4.14. Therefore, the null hypothesis indicating that there is no significant difference between the perceptions of administrators and teachers on the degree of effect of the different undesirable factors affecting the performance level of Public Secondary School Teachers in the Cordillera Administrative Region has been rejected (t comp=4.575; t 0.05 44df=2.017). Based on the aforementioned findings, it could be inferred that the undesirable factors had significant effects in the low performance of teachers; therefore, the person, school, student and community-related factors are the culprits for low performing teachers so there is a need to devise intervention measures to lessen if not eliminate the said forces affecting the teachers’ performance considering that the Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Education 4.0 has become the trend to sustain international standards of excellence and productivity.