This study finds that trifocalization has had no statistically significant impact on education outcomes at conventional confidence levels. The empirical results are consistent with findings drawn from the key informant interviews.
Further along, the study discusses why a trifocalized PETS might not work as expected. Given its findings, the report lays some reform ideas that EDCOM II might want to consider and focus on to enable and incentivize the trifocalized system to work better, especially as regards coordination and other issues that key informants interviewed regard as fundamental. Thus, one of these recommendations is the establishment of an independent agency invested with oversight responsibilities and powers to hold DepEd, CHED, and TESDA and other related agencies accountable for their performance in the PETS.
