This descriptive correlation study aimed to describe the level of 21st century skills of senior high school students and its effect on the research writing abilities of senior high school teachers in Datu Balong National High School. Two (2) sets of survey questionnaire were administered to the target respondents to measure their 21st century skills and research writing abilities.  Data were treated using mean and pearson-r correlation to attain the objective of the study with likert scale to identify the level of both 21st century skills and research writing abilities.  Data revealed that the 21st century skills got a mean rating of 3.09 which means these were utilized by respondents in moderate occasions. The research writing skills also got 2.89 mean rating which also indicates that these were utilized by senior high school students moderately. The coefficient of determination got 0.7056 which means that the null hypothesis is rejected and that the level of 21st century skills has significant effect on the research writing abilities of senior high school students. School administrators may take concern about the needs of students in their learning process teachers may further explain or evaluate their past lessons for additional knowledge in the given discussion to the students teachers may taught how to gather the main ideas and important information in their presentation parents may provide the necessary things the students need to enhance their engagement in learning students may research for a comprehensive meaning of a given topic in 21st century skills and research writing reading, searching, will help to understand the difficult topic in research subject.

21st century skills

research writing abilities

senior high school students