International Journal of New Technology and Research (IJNTR) ISSN:2454-4116, Volume-4, Issue-10, October 2018 Pages 71-73 71 www.ijntr.org Abstract— The quality of teacher education program can be gauged in the performance of graduates in the licensure examinations given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). In this study, the performance of the Teacher Education graduates of Bulacan Agricultural State College (BASC) in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) from 2013 to 2016, was evaluated. Results show that first time takers of the BSEd and BEEd programs perform higher than the average national passing rates with an average difference of 30.85% and 34.72%, respectively. However, the repeaters in both programs performed lower at -19.72% and -6.61%. For the first timers, BSEd takers performed slightly higher as revealed by their average passing rate of 64.97% as compared to 64.85% of the BEEd takers. For the repeaters, the BSEd average passing rate of 14.39% is lower than 23.52% of that of the BEEd. Similarly, for the overall performances, BSEd’s rating of 32.89% is somewhat lower than that of the BEEd’s rating of 42.15%. The trend is, for the same year of administration of the examinations, the result for August/September examinations were higher than that of January/March for both the two programs. The result of this research supports the importance of review in passing the LET. Index Terms—BSEd, BEEd, Education graduates, Licensure Examination for Teachers, Analysis I. INTRODUCTION A globally competitive teacher education program in the Philippines means raising it to the professional level. This was realized by the passing of Republic Act 7836, otherwise known as Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994 [1] which assigned the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) to strengthen the supervision of and regulation of the teaching profession. As specified in Article IV, Section 27, the Commission prescribed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). Thus, the quality of teacher education program can be gauged in the performance of graduates in this licensure examination. This periodic assessment is considered as an actual indication of the value of training the teacher education institutions (TEIs) have inculcated to their students. In the recent study conducted by the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), LET takers registered only a depressing 31% passing rate. The study showed that 497 out of 1,024 Edna Mae D. Cruz, Institute of Education, Arts and Sciences, Bulacan Agricultural State College, Pinaod, San Ildefonso, 3010 Bulacan Philippines Maria Krisvie Abigale F. Mendoza, Institute of Education, Arts and Sciences, Bulacan Agricultural State College, Pinaod, San Ildefonso, 3010 Bulacan Philippines Herbert M. De Jesus, Institute of Education, Arts and Sciences, Bulacan Agricultural State College, Pinaod, San Ildefonso, 3010 Bulacan Philippines TEIs who had graduates take the elementary examination under LET performed below the national passing rate. The same goes for 637 out of 1,258 TEIs for the secondary examination. This is a strong indication that teacher education institutions are of low quality because less than half actually are above or are performing above national average and more than half are performing below national average [2]. This also reveals that there is a necessity to scrutinize the performance of the teacher education institutions for most are not producing quality graduates who will teach the youth of the country [3]. Even though many schools have developed and implemented contingency plans, including BASC - Institute of Education, Arts and Sciences (IEAS), they still fall short of accomplishing the expected results. For these reasons, the researchers come together and devise this study. II. OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the performance of the Teacher Education graduates of Bulacan Agricultural State College (BASC) in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) from 2013 to 2016. Specifically, it analyzed the: 1.1 performance of the Bachelor of Secondary Education and Bachelor of Elementary Education LET takers as compared to the national passing rate of both first timers and repeaters; 1.2 performance of the BSEd as compared to the BEEd takers for both first timers and repeaters; and 1.3 trends in the performance for both group of takers. III. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study made use of the licensure examination results from the certification issued to the College by the PRC from March 2013 to September 2016. The difference between the institutional and national passing rates of January/March and August/September results were utilized in the analysis. IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS The following presents the analysis of the LET results of the BSEd and BEEd graduates of BASC. LET Results of BSEd and BEEd of the Bulacan Agricultural State College (BASC): An Analysis Edna Mae D. Cruz, Maria Krisvie Abigale F. Mendoza, Herbert M. De Jesus