Chapter 1: Philippine STEAM Proficiency

This chapter discusses the determination of the Philippine Higher Education STEAM Educators’ proficiency level in delivering STEAM disciplines. Its national measure of proficiency includes three major stages: developing the self-rating tool (Proficiency Indicators for Philippine Higher Education STEAM Educators [PIPSE]), developing the scoring framework, and determining the national proficiency of Philippine Higher Education (PHE) STEAM educators using the aforementioned developed measures. The online survey of the sampled (Tier 1: stratified random sampling for 156 Philippine Higher Education Institutions [HEIs] distributed in 17 regions, and Tier 2: complete enumeration of STEAM educators in the sampled HEIs) 1940 STEAM educators in January to December 2018 provided enough data to predict the general proficiency level of PHE STEAM educators. Analyzed data (i.e., programmed scoring framework, descriptive statistics, percentile rank, and t-test) revealed that self-rated proficiency defines their teaching and learning competence.