The Impact of Admission-Retention Policy on the Performance of the BEED Graduates of Marinduque State University in the Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (LEPT): Basis for Policy Enhancement

Abstract

One parameter that could determine quality instruction in a Teacher Education Institution (TEI) is the performance of its graduates in the Licensure Examinations for Professional Teachers (LEPT). In fact, CHED Memorandum Order No. 10, s. 2024 was issued to closely monitor students and graduates of TEIs, particularly the continuous decline and the dismal percentage of LEPT passers with percentage lower than the national passing percentage. The BEED Program, Marinduque State University, was not an exemption to those with undesirable LEPT results in the last few years. It was in 2018 when the program started implementing its Admission-Retention Policy to somehow address this issue. This descriptive-quantitative study deals with the analysis of performance of first-taker BEED graduates in the last three (3) years. After four (4) years of its implementation, the first batch of graduates who received the intervention got 100% passing rate in the LEPT, 100% for the second batch, and 94% for the third batch. Compared to the previous data on LEPT performance with a downward trend, these data gave a positive impact of the intervention policy designed by the program on the performance of the graduates in the Licensure Exams.