Adequacy and Practice of Professional Competence, Social Responsibility, Selfless Service, and Balanced Lifestyle in a Faith-Based University

Jolly S. Balila

doi:10.35974/isc.v11i4.3598

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Jolly S. Balila Adventist University of Philippines

https://doi.org/10.35974/isc.v11i4.3598

Keywords:

Professional Competence, Active Faith, Social Responsibility, Selfless Service, Balanced Lifestyle

Abstract

This descriptive-correlational study aims to assess how adequately a faith-based university has helped students develop the key institutional outcomes, including professional competence, active faith, social responsibility, selfless service, and balanced lifestyle (PASSB). A validated exit survey questionnaire was distributed to a total of 377 purposively sampled graduating senior college students through a Google Form. Descriptive statistics were used to describe adequacy and practice. A correlation analysis was performed between the extent to which a faith-based university has adequately helped students develop a key institutional outcome in terms of professional competence, active service, social responsibility, and balanced lifestyle and to what extent they practice these institutional outcomes. The descriptive results indicate that students rated the university’s efforts to prepare them in these areas as "adequate." Professional competence received the highest rating, while social responsibility was rated the lowest, though still considered adequate. On the practice side, students are often engaged in these institutional outcomes. Balanced lifestyles were often practiced and rated the highest, and social responsibility was rated the lowest but remained within the "often" category. The strength of the relationship is moderate between adequacy and practice, and all are statistically significant. This result means that the university plays a significant role in the extent to which the students practice PASSB. These findings highlight the effectiveness of the university’s programs in fostering key institutional outcomes while also identifying social responsibility as an area for further emphasis in both curricular and extracurricular activities to better align preparation and practice.

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Author Biography

Jolly S. Balila, Adventist University of Philippines

Dr. Jolly S. Balila serves as research consultant, statistician, professor in Research and Statistics at the Center for Graduate Studies of the Adventist University of the Philippines (AUP), Silang, Cavite. She earned her BS and MAED degrees in Mathematics from AUP and her Ph.D. in Education major in Research and Evaluation at University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City in 2013. She was one of the founding members of the partnership with APIU in Thailand, UNAI and UNKLAB in Indonesia with the goal to gather Adventist researchers to share their research outputs in an International Scholar’s Conference.

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