Implementation, Compliance and Effectiveness of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Scholarship Programs

This descriptive-correlation research was conducted to determine the implementation, compliance, and effectiveness of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) scholarship programs in the Province and City of Cebu, Philippines, for the year 2024. The respondents in the study were the 228 TESDA scholars selected from the 535 registered in the Province and City of Cebu. They were classified according to age, sex, educational attainment, type of scholarship availed, and location. The data were gathered using an adopted but modified questionnaire consisting of three (3) parts. Part 1 determined the profile of the respondents, including their age, sex, educational attainment, type of scholarship received, and location. Part II utilized the Compliance Questionnaire (CQ) that measures the extent of Implementation of TESDA scholarship programs. It is a 15-item scale developed by Mowday, Steers, and Porter (Mowday et al., 1979) and utilizes a 5-point Likert-type response. Part III was designed to gather data on determining the extent of compliance of TESDA Scholarship Programs, while Part IV included items that measured the level of effectiveness of TESDA Scholarship Programs. The data gathering instrument was subjected to validation and reliability testing. The descriptive statistics that were used included the frequency counts, percentage, and mean, while the inferential statistics employed the t-test for two independent samples, One-way Analysis of Variance, and Pearson’s r with a significance level set at .05 alpha. Findings showed that the respondents assessed the extent of implementation and compliance of the TESDA scholarship program to a very great extent, and its level of effectiveness was very high. Further, significant differences were noted in the assessment of the respondents on the extent of implementation, compliance, and level of effectiveness of the TESDA scholarship program when classified according to age, sex, educational attainment, type of scholarship availed, and location. Finally, significant relationships existed among the extent of implementation, compliance, and the level of effectiveness of the TESDA scholarship programs.