BOARD REVIEW PROGRAM AS PREDICTORS OF PERFORMANCE IN THE LICENSURE EXAM FOR CRIMINOLOGIST

Abstract

This study is conducted to interpret the performance of Criminology graduates who took the Licensure Examination, taking into their internal and external Board Review Programs as predictors if they can pass the exam. Under the umbrella of quantitative research design, this study is aimed at answering four research problems. This includes the performance of Criminology students in the pre-review on specific areas; their performance in the actual review on the same subject; their performance on the Licensure Examination; and the subject cluster which significantly contribute to the odds of passing the board exam. And after a thorough and deliberate process of acquiring, analyzing and interpreting data, the researchers were able to extract the results that among the subject during the pre-review, the respondents perform better in correctional administration, crime detection and investigation, criminal sociology, and criminalistics;(2) that they have performed poorly in the actual review;(3) that their performance in the board exam is better that of their actual review; and (4) that the result of the regression analysis between the pre-review results and the actual review results on same subject on same subject areas are considerably low. This leads the researchers to suggesting the reinforcement on areas where poor performance is notable.