Readiness of Fourth Year College of Education Students for Effective Preservice Teaching in Public Schools

This study determined the readiness of fourth-year students to pre-service teaching in terms of knowledge, skills values and attitude. This study employed descriptive survey research design. Furthermore, it aims to determine the level of readiness of 4th year students for pre-service teaching with respect to gender. The sampling used is convenience sampling where there were twenty males and thirty females with the total of fifty respondents of fourth-year coming from the department of college of education who were enrolled in Notre Dame of Midsayap College during the second semester of Academic Year 2022-2023. Frequency and percentage distribution, weighted mean and standard deviation, product moment correlation (Pearson-r) and t-test were used to analyze the gathered data. Findings of the study revealed that the respondents are very much ready to pre-service teaching in terms of knowledge, skills, values and attitude. However, among the variable it was revealed that the lowest mean among the four is the knowledge. Nevertheless, the highest mean was in their attitude. Male respondents are more ready to pre- service teaching than females, although the difference is not significant.