Abstract
This study observed the process of determining the impact on students’ academic performance and teachers’ personal qualities. Specifically, this delves into the following research questions: (1) assess the extent of teachers’ personal qualities in Sambulawan National High School in the Division of El Salvador City; (2) determine the academic performance of students when categorized as outstanding, very satisfactory, satisfactory, fairly satisfactory, and did not meet expectation; and (3) test the interrelationship between the extent of teachers’ personal qualities and the students’ academic performance. Moreover, the instrument used in this study was a modified questionnaire wherein the researcher analyzed, interpreted and reported the present status of the problem relating to students’ academic performance and the teachers’ personal qualities. The researcher used descriptive method in explaining, analyzing and classifying the data. Overall, the respondents described as always on the extent of teachers’ personal qualities. Further, they described as always in the indicator that their teachers communicate them well. Similarly, the findings revealed that the respondents described always in their teachers show empathy and patience. Majority of the respondents obtained an outstanding academic performance. On one hand, few of them got a very satisfactory rating in academic performance. The findings revealed that personal qualities of teachers showed negligible correlation to the students’ academic performance as indicated by no significance probability value. The select teachers of Sambulawan National High School in the Division of El Salvador City have highly manifested in assuring their students’ to learn effectively. This concludes that the teachers are excellent in communicating effectively with their students. On the other hand, the teachers have highly manifested in exerting earnest effort to teach the students effectively regardless of some issues and concerns on their personal qualities. Most of the students in Sambulawan National High School in the Division of El Salvador City are excellent in performing their academic tasks and other school activities based on the required learning competencies. Upon the other side, few of them performed very well. This study concludes that the academic performance of the students and the extent of teachers’ personal qualities were found not correlated. Therefore, the students could perform better in one way or the other regardless of some issues and concerns pertaining on the teachers’ personal qualities.
