A study of the correlates of religious knowledge and religious attitudes of senior high school students of St. Paul schools: Its implications to administration of religious education

The study aimed to find out the correlation of religious knowledge and religious attitudes of the high school students among the four schools used in this study, in relation to their ordinary school activities and life. The study sought to answer the following questions: 1) What are the correlates of religious knowledge and religious attitudes of senior high school students of four selected Paulinian schools? 2) How successful are the four Paulinian schools in their religious instruction program as assessed by the PASKO religious knowledge and attitude scale? 3) What is the profile of the fourth year students according to age, sex, family characteristics, educational characteristics, religious practices and attitudes about religion as a subject in school? 4) What are the implications of the findings of the survey on the administration of religion education programs in Paulinian schools? All in all, there are specific questions sought to be answered. The specific questions and corresponding hypotheses are presented into groups or clusters according to major classification of independent variables. All the 45 hypotheses are presented in the null form. Used and administered in the study was the questionnaire The Philippine Attitude Scale and Knowledge Orientation Test. The responses of questionnaires were coded. The frequency distribution and percentage were used for classification into groupings. The general mean scores were utilized for determining the index of knowledge among the seniors of the four schools. The standard deviation was used to describe the distribution of scores from the normal distribution. The standard error of the mean was used to compute the confidence limits of the general mean scores. The range from the minimum was to show the index of dispersion of the scores. The 95% confidence interval of the lower and upper limit of the mean was used to take the average mean for each group in one classification. To identify the correlates of religious knowledge and religious attitudes, the one way analysis of variables was used. To measure the degree of relationship between religious knowledge and religious attitudes, Pearson\u27s was used. The chi square was used to test the relatively of frequency distribution. To test the relationship between ranks obtained, the Spearman\u27s rank correlation was used. The significance of r for small samples was determined by using the table for significance of r. The null hypotheses of this study are tested at the .05 and .01 levels of significance. Based on the findings, the study has presented fifteen correlates of religious knowledge and religious attitudes in high school. The findings on influence of this correlates on religious education administration may stimulate critical appraisal on approaches in religion teaching which have been taken for granted