I. ABSTRACT

Since the Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (DRRR) curriculum has been introduced to the
K-12 program, this signifies a new way to properly respond and educate students about disasters
that could impose risks to Filipinos. For instance, here in the Philippines, people are exposed to
different kinds of natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and
tsunamis (Commission on Audit, 2014). This study aimed to determine the extent of integration
of DRRR curriculum and level of readiness of the grade 12 STEM and GAS students of Olivarez
College Tagaytay. The researchers used descriptive correlational research design to describe and
correlate the extent of integration of DRRR curriculum and level of readiness to disasters of a
total of 245 Grade 12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and General
Academic Strand (GAS) that were selected through stratified-sampling technique. The
researchers used a Likert-type researcher-made and adopted questionnaire from Bacarezas
(2020) in gathering the needed data, and utilized the different statistical treatments such as
frequency and percentage for the demographic profile of the respondents while the weighted
mean score in analyzing and interpreting the collected descriptive data from the questionnaire,
then correlating the two variables with Pearson coefficient and testing its significance. The
researchers found out that the selected students are ready for disasters and the DRRR curriculum
is highly integrated. The study revealed that there is no significant relationship between the
respondents’ extent of integration of the DRRR curriculum and their level of readiness to
disasters.