Guiterrez, Rachel Angela A.Pascual, Karen Kate C.2025-01-312025-01-312009-11https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/4330In relation to the Education Service Contracting Scheme of the DepEd which seeks to reduce congestion in public schools, this study seeks to determine the impact of government resources on the performance of secondary public school students in the Philippines. In order to determine the effects, panel regression was used to estimate the effects of government inputs such as Student-Teacher Ratio, Student- Toilet bowl Ratio, Student-Class Ratio, Student- Seating Ratio and Student- Room Ratio on the failure and the dropout rate the Philippines. Macroeconomic indicators were also included in regression, specifically the Gross Regional Domestic Product and the Poverty Incidence per region. Panel regression was deemed appropriate since the data was divided into cross-sections (regions) over the span of five school years (2002-2003 to 2006-2007). In addition, the use of panel regression is recommended in order to capture the differences in the data per region, rather than using the national average for a simple OLS estimation. Upon combining all seven regressors in anestimation, it was found that multicollinearity and correlation produced biased and unreliable results. Upon regressing the failure rate and dropout rate against each regressor separately, it was found that the Student-Seating Ratio was significant in explaining the failure rate, accounting for 77% of the variability in the SSR. None of the regressors were significant in explaining the dropout rate. Upon employment of the Random Effects Model, it was found that both the Student-teacher Ratio and the Poverty Incidence were significant in predicting the dropout and the failure rate, although only accounting for 10% and 22% of the variability in the same, respectively. These inconsistent results suggest that there is no clear, systematic relationship between government resources and the dropout and failure rates. It was recommended that the use of test results would be a better indicator of student performance. The researchers also recommend that the ESC bring back the previous stipulation of the "overflow" certificate for students in order to realign the implementation of the program with its original objective of reducing congestion in public schools, even the results of this study prove nothing on the effects of congestion on the student performance.enFailure rateDropout ratePublic schoolsEducationSecondary public school studentsThesis