Assessment on the Implementation of Drug Education Program Among Higher Education Institutions in Nueva Ecija

This study focused on determining the Higher Education Institution implementation of drug education program using descriptive comparative design. Fourth year criminology students were the primary respondents of the study and were chosen via quota sampling. Result showed that most of the subject HEIs included in the study was classified as private institution, operated for many years as corporation, they are categorized as small-medium school due to their recorded number of enrollees with small number of employees coming from administrative, teaching personnel and non-teaching personnel who assisted them in their academic-related needs and supported my various academic units, academic support units non-academic units in the implementation of drug education program. All of the dimension used in the assessment such as instruction, intervention program, services, learning activities, development activities, advocacy campaigns and monitoring, evaluation and research was rated strongly agreed by the respondents indicating the HEIs implemented the drug education program to a very great extent. Four profile variables of the HEIs found with significant relationship to implementation of drug education program. As to School, it was positively correlated to services indicating that school F had better implementation of drug education program as to services. Type of school was negatively correlated with the implementation of drug education program as to service, development activities and monitoring, evaluation and research indicating that private school had better implementation of drug education program in terms of service, development activities and monitoring, evaluation and research. Form of business organization was positively correlated with the implementation of HEIs drug education program as to service showing that that school run by a corporation had better implementation of HEIs drug education program as to service. Lastly, there were significant variation found in the implementation of drug education when classified into HEIs, the instruction, services, advocacy campaigns and monitoring, evaluation and research indicators are among the variables with significant difference indicating that the HEIs had different instructional delivery, teaching strategies and are or not integrated in the curriculum.