STATUS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMAND NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE DIVISION OF LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES.

The study sought to determine the status and indicators of teachers’ ICT competency and National Achievement Test performance of pupils; relationship between the teachers’ demographic profile and teachers’ ICT competency, schools’ ICT program and ICT infrastructure. The descriptive correlation survey was adopted and 1,012 teachers from 9 districts in the Division of Laguna were given questionnaire. The statements on competencies were based from the 4 domains of National ICT Competency Standards for Teachers which are social and ethical, technology and operation concepts, pedagogical, and professional domains. The findings revealed that competence on social and ethical, technology and operation concepts, pedagogical and professional domains obtained means were interpreted at basic level. In terms of NAT performance of 42 schools, 17 are big schools and 25 are small schools, only 4 schools obtained Moving-Towards-Mastery (MTM). The status of School’s ICT program in selected clusters in terms of Teachers’ ICT competence and Curriculum Integration with mean scores of 2.10 , and ICT Infrastructure mean of 1.64, with an overall mean of 2.02 was interpreted at Progressing level. The relationship between the teachers’ demographic profiles and teachers’ ICT competency was found significant, however no significant associations were found between schools’ ICT program and ICT infrastructure. All indicators of ICT competency skills of teacher respondents were not significant and did not affect significantly the NAT performance. The school administrators need to provide in-service trainings on ICT , improve schools’ ICT facilities to enhance teachers’ ICT competency skills and increase level of ICT integration to instruction.