EVALUATION OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING PROGRAMMED IN SOME SELECTED SCHOOLS. A RESEARCH PROJECT MATERIAL ON OFFICE TECHNOLOGY
ABSTRACT
This study tends to evaluate the guidance and counseling programme in some selected secondary school in Loko Development Area inspectorate. A questionnaire containing eight (8) items was administered to 200 students and 15 counselors, total of 215 respondents was used for this study. 5 research question and forty (40) assumptions were formulated and answered and tested respectively using simple percentage statistical tool. The study revealed that guidance and counseling programme has made positive impact in the life of the student with (77.3%) agree as most of the counselors organized career week treated them like mothers and fathers and for all advice and assisted them for career choice on what they will become in future through subject choice (with 54.1%) even though time for counseling is inadequate with other problem that may not be avoided, the researcher recommended that adequate measures should be made for the provision of professional and trained counselors with good enabling environment for them to work.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Guidance and counselling is a field of study that has been introduced in our school curriculum in order to produce professionally trained personnel who will render retentive and problem solving services to individuals or group in all area of life shows that its services are needed almost every where both hospitals, nursing home, rehabilitation centre, schools, banks, social welfare’ units, police stations, church and mosque e.t.c although here in Nigeria, the services of guidance and counselling is most pronounced in the schools.
The knowledge of guidance and counseling is most pronounce who practically applied to students to guide tern against problem that might arise due to wrong decision making and action and also aim at proffering solution to existing problems.
The existence of guidance “and counselling can be said to be as old as mankind, right from creation, man has never been all-knowing; he lacks knowledge in one things or the other and there fore seeks help from other people towards the solution of his problems.
Traditionally, the importance of guidance and counselling can not be over emphasized people sought for advice and help from other who are more knowledgeable, experienced or rise from solution of their problems, the traditional counselling could be those men and women who possessed supernatural power of healing, foreseeing the future and mediating between man and the god, these people served as consultant and then preferred solution to most of the problem brought before them due to the simplicity of man and his environment then.
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