Relationship between Teaching Competence of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management (BSHRM) Faculty and Students’ Academic Performance

Abstract

Teachers’ competence has a strong influence on the academic performance of the students however; students gain in their academic performance may be attributed to some other factors. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the teaching competence of BSHRM faculty and students academic performance. The respondents were 79 students taken from 99 third year and the fourth year BSHRM students enrolled during the first semester of the School Year 2016-17. The instrument used was adopted from the questionnaire in evaluating teaching competence constructed by Murcia, et al (2015). The statistical tools used were mean and Pearson product of correlations. Generally, results indicate that the BSHRM faculty were very competent in terms of mastery/knowledge of the subject matter, use of different teaching strategies, communication skills, and technology literacy. Other findings of the study revealed that the average grade of the respondents in their major subjects was moderately satisfactory while in their general education subject was satisfactory. Finally, there is no relationship between the faculty teaching competence and students’ academic performance.