Perception of Fourth Year High School and College Students on Graduating as an Indication to Success in Life

Sherry Mondigo, Miggy Panco & Kiana Umali

A qualitative research on the Perception of Fourth Year High School and College Students on Graduating as an Indication to Success in Life, aiming to know whether both departments nowadays believe that graduating will lead them to success. 

This study is composed of ten high school and five college students with a total of fifteen respondents; each of them is located within Metro Manila. The researchers used interviews as an aiding instrument for the study, after accomplishing the stipulated task; the findings imply that nearly every respondent have the will to choose their own course for college and that most of the participants are financially stable while some have problems within their family or funds. Nearly every participant had a hard time defining success, taking several moments to contemplate. 

Majority considered graduation as a key to success while there were five others that said that there are other ways to attain this—gaining a degree that they worked hard for and a satisfying job that will sustain their necessities. With the data gathered, the researchers consider that each respondent see graduation a mandatory factor in life and will continue to strive and endlessly yearn for it until they attain it.

 

This research has publicized perceptions of a small group of students, sharing their viewpoints about graduation serving as a key to triumph and success. However, due to the scope and delimitation and the limited time and resources of this study, the researchers were not able to push their topic furthermore.