SCHOOL GUIDANCE SERVICES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: PERCEPTIONS FROM SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDO STATE
Authors: Michael Oluwatobi Adewale
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17342114
Published: October 2024
Abstract
<p><em>The study investigated Teachers’ Perception of the Influence of Guidance Services on Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students in Edo State, Nigeria. Three research questions, three objectives and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested. The population of the study was 5,267 with a sample size of 193. The instrument titled; questionnaire on teachers’ perception of the influence of guidance services on academic achievement of senior secondary school students was used for this study to collect the data. The instrument was validated by the researcher’s supervisor for face, content and construct validity. The instrument was further pilot tested using test re-test on 20 senior secondary school teachers using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient, a reliability index of 0.75 was obtained. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis based on the research questions and null hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics. The findings from the study revealed that guidance services have a great impact on senior secondary school students’ academic achievement as it helps give students emotional balance while facing their studies, give proper direction in their academic and it also helps place them to benefit from vocational and educational opportunities. It concluded that guidance services help students make realistic choices and decisions about their educational plan and it also helps to build a better teacher-student relationship. The study recommended that government should as a matter of urgency establish guidance and counselling centres in all public secondary schools in Edo State; government and school management should organize seminars and conferences for teachers in the state on the importance of guidance and counselling programme irrespective of location; where government does not introduce Guidance Counsellors, Individual school should make arrangement to hire Guidance Counsellors </em></p>
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