TROPICALES, Marishirl P.

TROPICALES, Marishirl P.

Marishirl Tropicales is an associate professor at the UST College of Education. As a faculty member of the college, she teaches professional education courses and has been assigned to various tasks: as Mathematics coordinator, Education Department coordinator, AdHoc committee member, accreditation committee member, supervising teacher, and member of the Dean’s Council.  She also served as the principal of its laboratory high school, the Education High School from 2005 to 2010. She had also been a faculty researcher of the UST Center for Educational Research and Development. 

In 2011, she was appointed as the principal of the UST Junior High School, an administrative post she holds until the present. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Management, a master’s degree in Development Education and a Bachelor of Science degree major in Mathematics from the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.

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Academic Qualifications

Research Highlights

Research Interests

Academic Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Education Major in Mathematics, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
  • Master of Arts Major in Development Education, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Education Major in Educational Management, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines

Research Highlights

  • International Publication Award given by UST for the  publication cited below

Research Interests

  • Educational leadership

Courses Handled

Major Recognitions

Professional Activities

Courses Handled

  • Educ 701 The Teaching Profession
  • Educ 7021 The Teacher and the Community, School Culture, and Organizational Leadership
  • Educ 7023 Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum
  • ELE BSMAD Basic School Management and Administration

Major Recognitions

  • Dangal ng UST Award for Best Thesis (1998)
  • Dangal ng UST Award for Best Community Service Team (2002)
  • Outstanding Faculty Member of UST College of Education (2003)
  • Gawad Guro Award of the UST College of Education (2019

Professional Activities

  • School Principal of UST Junior High School
  • Auditor, Catholic Teachers’ Guild of the Philippines
  • Resource speaker on assessment of student learning

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • Tropicales, M. and De Guzman, A. (2014). A structural equation model (SEM) of the impact of transformational, visionary, charismatic and ethical leadership styles on the development of wise leadership among Filipino private secondary school principals. Asia Pacific Education Review, DOI 10.1007/s12564-014-9346-5.
  • Tropicales, M. and Vizconde, C. (2004). A Case Profile of a Laboratory School in the Philippines: Implications to Research and Policy Making. UNITAS.