CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM

Introduction

Specialized subjects are subjects that are unique or specialize to the career tract or leaning strand that
student choose. This study focused the perception of the students in Entrepreneur as a specialize
subject offered to the general academic strand (GAS) students in grade 11Candor. It also introduced the
significance of the subject and how the students perceive it as a part of their chosen career. The concept
of the study is to know the perception of the students towards specialized subject in GAS.

Entrepreneurship is one of the contextualized subjects of the senior high school curriculum. Some
examples of the things that you will learn from taking this subject include: Development of business
plan, marketing, business operations, Intellectual property rights, job opportunities from
Entrepreneurship as a carrier. According to Coulson, it is to benefit of every student and in every
community to establish an entrepreneurial culture in every school.

Entrepreneurship education benefits every student by giving an alternative career path at any time their
lives. In every graduating class, there are students who want to go into business right away. There are
some who well consider it after college or several years of employment. Some graduates aren’t
considerate it now. But will at sometimes in their lives. There are even those who have thought about it
and, with more knowledge about what it takes for entrepreneur success.

Students have the opportunity to make an informed decision about entrepreneurship as a career path
now or later in life. The foundation for that decision began in the k-12 system.

According to EE contributor, although or subject, any have inherent aptitude for a discipline or subject.
Any skills can be improved if there is a willingness to learn. We can live the world where the future is
uncertain, and it belong to creators and innovators. And that’s why it is important to learn and study
entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship education serves as an excellent foundation for the types of creative, innovative ideas
we need to succeed in the 21st century. Studying entrepreneurship benefits the students and learners
from deferent social and economic background because it teaches people to cultivate unique skills and
think outside the box. Moreover, it creates opportunity, instills confidence, ensures social justice and
stimulates the economy. Entrepreneurship education also provides budding with skills and knowledge to
come up with business ideas and develop their own ventures.

In present economic situation, having a knowledge of an academic subject is no longer sufficient for a
new graduate. Students are increasingly required to have skills and abilities which increase their
employability, such as, the retrieval and handling of information, communication and presentation;
planning and problem solving; and social development and interaction. Entrepreneurial education and
training provides individuals w/ the abilities to recognize commercial opportunities, self-esteem,
knowledge and skills to act onthem. It includes instruction in opportunity recognition, commercializing a
concept, managing resources, and initiating a business venture (Grecu et.al, 2017)
Theoretical Background

This study aimed to know the students perception on specialized subject of the Grade-12 ERUDITE at
SapaAnding National High School-Ramon Magsaysay Extension.The study refers to the
students’perception and their look out on a specific subject that have been the focus of this research.
The entrepreneurship as one of the specialized subjects, may have many variations of ideas and
perspectives that classify the importance of the subject at the end of the semester.

According to Enderun article students who choose a business tract in SHS are able to work closely with
faculty who are seasoned with experience in entrepreneurship and business. Students get the change to
have a professor in entrepreneurship as their advisor on a business plan project and gain access to a
numerous faculty of leading entrepreneurs.

Many of professors that students are like to encounter are most probably the best in their field. It would
be nearly impossible to have access to these experts had they not choosing the business tract. You
almost can’t put a price on having such professors oversee your future ventures in business.

The support you get once you enter the business tract in SHS can go way beyond than just access to a
faculty of leaders in Entrepreneurship and business. Senior high school that focus on entrepreneurship
and business have a wide range of resources that can meet the needs of their students who are most
likely interested in starting their own enterprise

These resources can include entrepreneurship clubs, new venture labs, and entrepreneurship centres.
Students are able to develop themselves as well as their business ideas further when they choose the
business tract even while they are in their school. There, students have a wide range of options, from
one-on-onecoaching to engagement and mentorship with actual businessmen and entrepreneurs.
Conceptual framework

Figure 1.1 shows the conceptual framework of this study. The figure indicating the relationship of the
respondents.

Figure 1: Schematic Diagram

Statement of the Problem

This study aimed to know the factors influencing the perception of the students in relation to specialized
subject of the Grade 11 Candor students of Sapa Anding National High School- Ramon Magsaysay
Extension.

1. What is/are specialized subject?

2. What is student’s level of awareness about specialized subject?

3. What is the students’ perception on specialized subject?

4. As part of their chosen career, what are the benefits on the subject to the students?

5. What is/are the students reaction level on the specialized subject in terms of the following
factors:

3.1 Behavior

3.2benefits

4. Is there significant relationship between the students’ perception and the specialized subject?

Null hypothesis

There is no significance relationship between the perception and the specialized subject of the grade 11
students.

Scope and delimitation

This study covered only to the Grade 11 as the students of the specialized subject and to be further
looked their perception towards the subject. This study focused to all Grade 11 candor students of Sapa
Anding National High School – Ramon Magsaysay Extension.

Significance of the study

This study served to be the foundation of a person, of student to act and behave accordingly in their
respective community a d even various researcher whose motive was to inform the students.

Most likely this would be beneficial to the group of people who indeed, the focused of this study.

Respondents/students: Students as a core concern of the study which they are the beneficiary, it will
makes them realize how the specialize subject “entrepreneurship” helps their lifestyle and give them the
information on how to start a business.

Parents: Parents is the prime guidance should motivate their children to engage in having a business. It
is essential for them to be responsible in motivating their children in order for them to start up a small
business.

Teachers: Teacher as a prime mover wheel of educational system as a second parents and model inside
the classroom must have to teach their students well so that they will learn a lot of things about having
a business.
LGU Officials: LGU officials should have a livelihood program for the students to have their capital in
staring a small business.

Future Researcher: Attaining one goal to finish this study will be helpful to the future researcher to
achieve good result containing various information and sources as we move forward.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Aptitude- a natural ability to do something suitability or fitness.

• Creative- relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of
an artistic work. A person who is creative, typically in a professional context.

• Cultivate-prepare and use (land) for crops and gardening. Try to acquire or develop (a quality,
sentiment, or skill).

• Economic- relating to economics or economy. Justified in terms of profitability.

• Economy- the wealth and resources of a country or a region, especially in terms of the
production and consumption of goods and services.

• Entrepreneur- a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater
than normal financial risks in order to do so.
• Entrepreneurial- characterized by the taking of financial risk in the hope of profit; enterprising.

• Innovative-featuring new methods; advance and original.

• Retrieval- the process of getting something back from somewhere.

• Perception- the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

• Social- relating to society or its organization. Gregarious: breeding or nesting in colonies an

informal social gathering, especially one organized by the members of a particular club or group.

• Stimulated- raise levels of physiological or activities in (The body or any biological system).

• Venture- a risky or daring journey or undertaking.

Chapter II

This chapter focuses on information and related study, used to help proponents to find some important
information that is associated as relevant to the study being proposed.

Related literature

Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to
encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings.

Variations of entrepreneurship education are offered at all levels of schooling from primary or
secondary schools through graduate university programs

Entrepreneurs, fired by their dreams and passions, have been the engine for creating new

jobs, generating revenue, advancing innovation, enhancing productivity, and improving business models
and processes.

Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of the free enterprise system around the world. In fact more than
500 million adults around the globe are engaged in some form of entrepreneurial activity each year.

Much like college courses, senior high school or SHS tracks are specific areas of study that fall into
different disciplines. These subjects are designed to give a student the advanced skills and the
competencies that are required should they choose to go to college and technical vocation in the
Philippines. Schools for entrepreneurship more specifically, can teach a student what they need in order
to be employed in a corporate setting or start their own business.

The curriculum of a senior high school in the Philippines is made up of core subjects in eight learning
areas. All students of SHS are going to have to take these subjects, as well as specialized and applied
subject tracks that will be dictated by the track and the strand that the student picks.

Students often ask themselves the question: “What do I want to do after I graduate from high school?”
SHS is supposed to help lead students towards the right career path.

Students who choose a business track in SHS are able to work closely with faculty who are seasoned
with expertise in entrepreneurship and business. Students get the chance to have a professor in
entrepreneurship as their advisor on a business plan project and gain access to a numerous faculty of
leading entrepreneurs.
Many of the professors that students are likely to encounter are most probably the best in their field. It
would be nearly impossible to have access to these experts had they not chosen the business track. You
almost can’t put a price on having such professors oversee your future ventures in business.

Off late, courses based on entrepreneurship have been launched in various colleges and schools to help
aspiring entrepreneurs. Many students spend their entire life dreaming about starting their own
venture. As a business owner, it’s always wise to have a required set of skills and knowledge. But the
real question is “can entrepreneurship be taught in schools?”. Several entrepreneurs and scholars have
voiced their opinion on this ongoing debate. We have many examples around us like Mark Zuckerberg,
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who don’t have a college degree. These examples somewhere prove that the
concept of entrepreneurship as a subject in the classroom is not required at all.

Realizing the importance of entrepreneurship and its share in the Indian economy, Narendra Goidani,
Founder, Lifeschool personality feels that it is important that schools that would highlight the skill set
required to become an entrepreneur.

The earlier one is connected to entrepreneurship, the more the individual will have the scope to learn
and master the tricks, techniques and strategies of a successful business.

While college is too short a span to learn entrepreneurship. School is the ideal time when students can
be introduced to the basic of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be an optional subject only for a
student interested on the same.

However, it’s on the parents, tutors or guardian to find out, whether a student has knack in learning
entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is a process universally connected with the founding of business ventures, acquiring or
expanding an existing business. Entrepreneurs have been considered as bearers for risks and
uncertainties in making business choices (Knight, 1921), and make innovations for new goods, new
methods of production, new markets, and new types of industrial organization (Schumpeter, 1934). Hull,
Bosley, and Udell (1980) concurred that entrepreneurs assumed risk with the intention to expand the
business. Meanwhile, Brockhaus (1980) recognized entrepreneur as a manager or owner of a business
who is not employed elsewhere. However, Cooper and Dundleberg (1987) defined entrepreneur as a
person who either own or manage a business. While McClelland (1961) described an entrepreneur as a
business manager who has the responsibility as a decision maker and takes responsibility for the
decision made. From the above definitions, it can be concluded that an entrepreneur as the
owner/manager of an MSME, in which he or she may not be a founder but not only has a responsibility
to make decision and but also takes the risk and responsibility for the decision made.
Entrepreneurship endeavors involve gathering of productive resources in an attempt to begin a business
enterprise with the expectation of providing a reasonable income to the entrepreneur or small business
operators. These resources include manpower, equipment and tools, money, time and basic raw
materials which may entail some risks in procuring it. For example, the risk of not getting basic raw
materials as needed to produce the product or damage to the equipment and tools means losses to the
entrepreneur. These resources, along with its associated risk, should be recognized and managed to
minimize losses and to increase profits. The entrepreneurial process remains the same and the roles and
nature of the entrepreneur are universal, regardless of industries. Hereditary risk exists in all the
processes starting from the ideation, conceptualization, enterprise creation, commercialization and
ending with the growth of the enterprise.

Moreover, all businesses in the world face risk regardless of its size, thus they have to identify, assess,
manage and monitor the organization’s business opportunities and risks. The current business
disappointments are usually caused by entrepreneur’s misjudgments, mismanagement of risk and
changes in corporate governance requirements. There are also increasing stakeholder expectations for
entrepreneurs to effectively manage all risks exist within an organization.

The concept of building a business begins with an idea, yet there is much more to it. To develop, to reap
and to water the business requires constant effort of a successful business idea to blossom to a
successful business requires constant effort of a mastermind referred to as the entrepreneur of the
business. From gathering the right resources required to nurture the business till well marketed, the
entrepreneurs are a spinal cord to a business stands by all thick and thins.

RELATED STUDIES
Some experts think of entrepreneurs as people who are willing to take risks that other people are not.
Others define them as people who start and build successful business.

Thinking about the first of these definitions, entrepreneurship doesn’t necessarily involve starting your
own business. Many people who don’t work for themselves are recognized as entrepreneurs within their
organizations.

Regardless of how you define an “entrepreneur”, one thing is certain: becoming a successful
entrepreneur isn’t easy. So, how does one person successfully take advantage of an opportunity, while
another, equally knowledgeable person does not? Do entrepreneurs have a different genetic makeup?
Or do they operate from a different vantage point, that somehow directs their decisions for them?

Though many researchers have studied the subject, there are no definitive answers. What do we know
is that successful entrepreneurs seem to have certain traits in common.

We’ve gathered these traits into four categories:

• Personal characteristics.

• Interpersonal skills.

• Critical and creative thinking skills.

• Practical skills.

Local small business are important community assets, and local wellbeing can be improved through
entrepreneurship. Existing research shows only partial agreement on the skill dimensions that make up
this required skillset, and a comprehensive skill framework has yet to surface. SCORE, a longstanding
and successful US commonly economic program, trains individuals in the skills necessary to start and
successfully operate small business. This article presents a qualitative, exploratory study of the skills
developed through SCORE counselling that are associated with small business success. The SCORE skill
dimensions are compared to a prominent practice-based model. The comparison reveals unique aspects
of the SCORE skill dimensions not mirrored in other studies. Finally, this study opines how the study
findings extend research regarding small business and commonly development.

A sample of 147entrepreneurs with valid responses was collected from three districts of Jharkhand,
namely, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Ranchi. The demographic characteristics of these regions have been
represented to give an insight into the region where the study has been conducted. Five dimensions of
skills, namely, leadership skills, communication skills, human relation skills, technical skills and inborn
aptitude, have been identified from previous literatures. Success has been measured as a perceived
chance of business success. The study primarily analyzes the strength of the relationship of the skills
with success

Evidence from the estimations using multinomial logits was found to support relationships between
several sociocultural factors and entrepreneurship-related performance or traits. Specifically, those
relationships include: (a) Active participation in entrepreneurs’ social networks and reported value of
creativity; (b) CSR-willingness and reported entrepreneurs’ perseverance; (c) Transforming of
sociocultural values and entrepreneurs’ decisiveness; and, (d) Lessons learned from others’ failures and
perceived chance of success. Using geographical locations as the control variate, evaluations of the
baseline-category logits models indicate their varying effects on the outcomes when combined with the
sociocultural factors that are found to be statistically significant. Empirical probabilities that give further
detail about behavioral patterns are provided; and toward the end, the paper offers some conclusions
with some striking insights and useful explanations on the Vietnamese entrepreneurship process

CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this part the researcher, discuss the methods use and the procedure apply to obtain the data needed
in this study.
RESEARCH METHOD

The method use by the researcher in this study is the descriptive survey. A descriptive research
involves description, analysis and interpretation of conditions that now exist. It often involves the
comparison and contrast and attempted to discover the cause and effect relationship that exist in the
study.

The descriptive survey estimates the extent to which different variables are located to each
other. The distinguishing characteristics are the effort to estimate the relationship or distinguished from
sample description. Descriptive research describes the nature of the situation as it exists at the time of
the study and explores the cause of the particular phenomenon.

The descriptive method was use to achieve the goal of this study. This method seeks to describe
the present existing conditions, which in this research determine the students perception on specialized
subject. In addition, it also seeks to answer question to real facts relating to existing condition.

RESEARCH LOCALE

The study conducted in Sapa Anding National High School Ramon Magsaysay Extension, Ramon
Magsaysay Zamboanga Del Sur. It was known as the first open extension school of Sapa Anding
Agricultural Vocational Technical School (SAAVTS). It is located along newly constructed highway of
Purok-3 Poblacion Ramon Magsaysay Zamboanga Del Sur which has estimated distance more or less 5
kilometers away from Sapa Anding Agricultural Vocational Technical School Main and a meters away
from Integrated Bus and Jeepney Terminal.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION AND GATHERING

Before the final distribution of the survey questionnaire-checklist, the researchers make a consent letter
that was sign by the adviser and asked permission from the campus head in the person of Mrs. Belen S.
Casas and provided letter that permitted the researchers to do the research study. After the permission
was granted , the researchers presented themselves as the recipients of the study and asked assistance
from the teachers in the conduct and administration of the survey questionnaire – checklist. The
researchers assured that the respondents, as the key participants, participated the activity and
collaboratively in the making process. Researchers made sure that the questions being raise would be
fully answer by the respondents in the study. The questionnaire was divided into three main points.

The instruments use in gathering data was survey questionnaire-checklist. A series of written
questions classified according to the problems raised in this study. The researchers gather information
from the concern respondents and information from other related topics necessary in constructing
reliable and valid questions.
RESEARCH RESPONDENTS

The respondents of this study are Grade 12 Erudite students of Sapa Anding National High
School Ramon Magsaysay Extension, which comprises 28 Male and 16 Female. The researchers took
100% of the students a sample to be the respondents. More likely, the researchers test the learning
level of the students’ perception on specialized subject