World Education Connect Multidisciplinary e-Publication, Vol. VI, Issue I (January 2026), pp.184-198
ABSTRACT
This study investigates the students’ interest towards science at Sulu State College Laboratory High School (SSC-LHS) during School Year 2025-2026. The study employs. With 112 student-respondents, it employed frequency counts and percentage, weighted mean and standard deviation, t-test for independent samples and One-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s r. This study reveals the following findings: 1) Out of 100 student-respondents, great majority are female, within 15 years old & above, almost equally represented the four grade levels, and great majority of their parents have bachelor’s degree.2) Generally, students at Sulu State College Laboratory High School have high learning interest towards science. Their learning interests are enhanced by the provision of adequate learning environment for science education.3) Unlike parent’s educational attainment, variables like age, gender, and grade level significantly intervene in ways how students of Sulu State College Laboratory High School perceive the extent of students’ learning interest towards science.4) Students’ learning interest towards science such as Attitudes towards science, Science process skills, and Interest in science are highly correlated.5) This study tends to confirm Holland (2020) RIASEC-typology, a theoretical concept which describes interest orientation. It comprises six personality types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Enterprising and Conventional). Each type represents a complex cluster of attitudes, self-beliefs, values and interests. Science interests most likely occur when an individual’s personality structure represents the investigative type.
