Predictors of Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) Performance: A Mediation Analysis

Teaching is known to be as the noblest profession and vocation because it is devoted to honing the students' cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. To become a professional teacher, an aspirant must pass the board examination to get a license to teach. This study determined predictors of success in the Licensure Examinations for Teachers. The Retrospective-predictive design employing simple mediation analysis served as the structure of the study to predict the effect of prior achievements to the LET performance. Furthermore, it aimed also to determine if the first and second-year academic achievements of the students in college mediate the effect of prior achievement to the LET performance of graduates. The results revealed that the influence of college entrance score to the LET performance of the graduates was mediated by the first and second-year academic achievement of the graduates. Hence, the effect of college entrance score to the LET performance is significant or felt because of the mediator. It is then recommended that college entrance score should be a basis for admission to the program and the general weighted average for the first two years be a basis for retention of students.