GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVICES AND CAREER CHOICE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVICES AND CAREER CHOICE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Appendices
CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Statement of the Problem
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.4 Significance of the Study
1.5 Research Questions
1.6 Research Hypotheses
1.7 Delimitations of the Study
1.8 Limitation of the Study
1.9 Definition of Terms
CHAPTER TWO – REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Concept of Guidance Dimensions
2.2 Concept of Career Choice
2.3 Educational Guidance dimension and Career
choice
2.4 Vocational Guidance dimension and Career
choice
2.5 Personal-Social Guidance and Career choice
2.6 Summary of Literature Review
CHAPTER THREE – RESEARCH METHODS
3.1 Area of the Study
3.2 Research Design
3.3 Population of the Study
3.4 Sample and Sampling Techniques
3.5 Instrument for Data Collection
3.6 Validation of the Instrument
3.7 Administration of the Instrument
3.8 Method of Data Analysis
CHAPTER FOUR – DATA ANALYSIS AND
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
4.1 Data Analysis
4.2 Discussion of Findings
CHAPTER FIVE – SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
5.4 Suggestion for Further Study
References
Appendix
Abstract
This study examined the influence of Guidance and Counseling services on career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area. The survey research design was adopted in the study. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. Generally, the population of the study consisted three thousand six hundred and one students (3601) senior secondary two (SS2) students. Specifically, the sample size was 200 senior secondary two (SS2) students adopted using simple random sampling technique from four (4) public secondary schools.
The instrument used for gathering of the needed data for the study was a questionnaire entitled Guidance Dimension and Career Choice Questionnaire (GDCCQ). Thereafter, data collected were analyzed using the chi-square statistics. The result was tested at 0.05 levels of significance.
Therefore, the result of the study revealed that: there is a significant influence of educational guidance, vocational guidance and social-personal guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Career plays a very fundamental and significant role in the life of the individual not only because they determine the pattern of income but also because they affect the individual personality and concepts in life. Career therefore is a choose pursuit, life work or success in one’s profession occupied by a person throughout his/her lifetime.
Obviously, it is of utmost importance to every individual as he or she prepares for the future. Career choice is something very hard to decide, especially as his life will depend on it.
Furthermore, Harry (2013) indicated that, career is the totality of experience through which one learns about and prepares to engage in work as part of his way of living. Indeed, career is an enjoying process that occurs over the life span and includes homes, schools and community. Therefore, every human being needs to do one job or the other to help contribute his quota to the development of the country.
Similarly, Ipaye (2010) asserted that there is need to discuss with one’s peer school counsellors, parents and teachers on the need to choose a life span work as “career convention” or “career conference”.
However, career convention according to him is an instrument of career information. Thus, this occurs for a number of reasons, which includes: to stimulate career thinking and widen occupational horizon. To focus attention on particular jobs in order to help an individual crystallizes his preference. Also, to create a situation in which parents can on one hand meet employers. Thereby, discuss the opportunities they offer and on the other hand meet the career teachers or career officers with whom they can exchange views. The guidance and counselling services and career choice of senior secondary school students.
The effect of guidance on choice of career is both negative and positive this is due to: security factors; no usual hazards to health. In addition, assured steady income; certainty of continued employment. Also, career or occupational satisfaction; prestige; and social rewards.
In addition, an investigation on parental influence on career choice has revealed that parents who interact with their children at home in a variety of ways shows interest. In what they do or say tend to encourage their children towards better results on certain subjects in school. On the other hand, children whose parents show little or no attitude or attention to their studies at home. Do not motivate and encourage better academic performance.
Career choice has become one of the most difficult decisions in the life of students. Thus, career choice is capable of determining and individual’s social status, income and character, his lifestyle and so on.
Therefore, there is need to counsel students to become vital because students’ years are marked by the development of the feeling of independence, self-reliance and self-esteem vocational assistance and occupational information from parents.
The benefits accompanying parental influence on career choice of their children cannot be over-emphasized, this is because it enables students’ combines’ subject that will lead then to fulfill their career potentialities such as personality traits, interest, aptitude and their abilities.
Moreover, career choice has influence the decisions in the life of students. The career choice of the students make the students to see social studies as an art, social science or commercial subject which is mainly for the students who are going to the field of social sciences and it is capable of determining and individual’s students’ participation in class, character and the lifestyle.
Guidance can positively influence the attainment of one’s career. Prelovsky (2012) says that career guidance and counseling is designed to help individuals attain their career. Professional orientations and career guidance represent organized systems of social and professional work on providing continuing help to the individual for the entire duration of his career development, in free choice of direction and orientation, in education and professional activity with the goal of achieving a professional identity, in line with personal traits and the labour market demand for specific occupations.
Kolo (2002) opines that career counseling deals with problems related to the world of work. Problems in these areas could arise from difficulty in making a decision. As to what job to go into, adjusting to the work demands after employment in vocational counseling.
Career guidance makes it possible for an individual to see and explore his or her unlimited endowed options. Indeed, it is an undeniable fact that the major service areas of guidance are, educational guidance. Which assists students in their choices of career, vocational guidance. Thus, which assists the individual to choose and prepare for an occupation. That is compatible with his interests and aptitudes, and personal and social guidance which assists the individual to behave appropriately in relation to other members of the society (Eremie, 2018).
According to Orewere, (2012), for guidance to be effective, there must be a series of programmed activities to help students’ develop a positive attitude towards it. This enables students with information and guidance with regards to personal, academic and career option.
Hence, guidance and counseling play a vital role in the career choice of the students. It is pertinent to investigate whether the provision of these services could influence the choice of career among secondary school students. This then formed the background to the present study which aimed at investigating the Guidance dimensions and career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVICES AND CAREER CHOICE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Indeed, a number of factors influence the setting of career goals and aspirations by students such factors include interest, aptitude, and reward level of responsibility, social needs and status ego satisfaction. However, parents who had prestigious careers in mind discouraged the offering of non-prestigious careers by their children. This is done without regard to the fact that an individual is endowed with certain potential, aptitudes and interest for career choice.
Furthermore, parents sometimes force their children too much by getting them fulfill some lost grounds where the parents failed to achieve their aims and ambitions or make their offering contribution to certain societal needs and goals.
In addition, owning to the complex nature of Nigerian society. The counseling programme provided by parents at home to their children has assumed a wider role in the educational development of their children. Specifically, the present-day students’ selection of subjects is based on the process of helping individuals understand themselves. Thus, which will lead to the better understanding of other aspects of their live.
Furthermore, since parental influence on career choice of their children influence the children selection of subjects in the senior secondary education. This therefore, motivated the researcher to carryout investigation on the Guidance dimension services and career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the guidance and counselling services and career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
Specifically, the study intends to:
(i) Assess the influence of educational guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area;
(ii) Examine the influence of vocational guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students Nsit Ubium Local Government Area; and
(iii) Determine the influence of social-personal guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The outcome of this research will help educating and concomitantly serving as a guide to both parent and schools on the effect of guidance on the academic performance of students.
To the students: The result of the study will also help the students. Thus, to create a good and cordial relationship with their teacher counselor. Also, it will bring self-concept to the students that will help them understand himself/herself. As well as regulate their behavior, interest toward their future career.
To school administrators: It also be of help to school administrators in assessing their contribution to guidance and counselling programme in schools as its influence career choice of senior secondary school students.
To other researchers: This research will also serve as a resource base to other researchers interested in carrying out further research in this field subsequently, if applied will go to an extent to provide new explanation to the topic. The findings will also enable the researcher made recommendations for further research on the issue of career prospects.
To Parents: In brief, it will enable the research give recommendations to the parents about their children’s response to the advice five to them.
To Government: It will enable the researcher make concrete recommendations to the government about the choice of career among students especially now that the rate of unemployment is high.
1.5 Research Questions
- To what extent does educational guidance influence career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area?
- To what extent does vocational guidance career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area?
- To what extent does social-personal guidance influence career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area?
1.6 Research Hypotheses
- There is no significant influence of educational guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
- There is no significant influence of vocational guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
- There is no significant influence of social-personal guidance on career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
1.7 Delimitation of the Study
This research work focuses on the influence of guidance dimensions (educational, vocational and social-personal guidance) on academic career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
1.8 Limitation of the Study
The researcher encountered some difficulties in obtaining information for the study such as time-frame and shortage of finance.
1.9 Definition of Terms
Guidance Dimensions: In brief, this refers to certain areas in which guidance program can be instituted in school. Specifically, this includes educational, vocational and social-personal guidance dimension.
Educational guidance dimension: In brief, this is an assistance given to students individually and through group techniques to help them function more effectively in their school progress.
Vocational guidance dimension: In brief, it is the process of helping the individual student to ascertain, accept, understand and apply. The relevant facts about the occupational world. Which are ascertained through incidental and planned explanatory activities.
Social-personal guidance dimension: This is assistance given to students to help them solves problems related to psychological situations. Atmosphere and etiquette of life in the family, and social. So that individuals strengthen protection and develop individuals in their own problems.
Career Choice: This is the selection of a vocation, usually on the basis of such factors as parental guidance, vocational guidance, identification with admired figures, trial or part-time jobs, training opportunities, personal interests, and ability tests.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
The chapter is concerned with the review of related literature by other researchers.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODS
This chapter is concerned with the methodologies used in carrying out the research work.
3.1 Area of the Study
This research study was carried out in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area. Nsit Ibom Local Government Area is located within central Akwa Ibom State and share boundaries with Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, Etinan Local Government Area, Uyo Local Government Area and Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.
Obviously, the people of Nsit Ibom Local Government Area are of the Ibibio ethnic extraction. The Local Government Area higher institution College of Education Afaha Nsit, this institution is a teacher training institution; they train students to become professional teachers.
Nsit Ibom Local Government Area has eight (8) public secondary schools. Geographically, Nsit Ibom has a land mass of 109.4sq.km. The guidance and counselling services and career choice of senior secondary school students.
The forest region produces timber for firewood and woodwork. Economically; Nsit Ibom people are predominantly traders and peasant farmers, while some are civil servants. The area has a total population of 108.611 according to the national population census (NPC, 2006).
3.2 Research Design
The survey research design was adopted in the study. This design was appropriate since the researcher had no control over the variables under study. Hence the researcher intervenes to check its effect on academic career choice of senior secondary school students in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
3.3 Population of the Study
The population of the study consisted of all the students in all the senior secondary schools in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area. The target population for the student in all the senior secondary two (SS2) students offering Biology in all the eight public secondary schools in the study area. The total population is three thousand six hundred and one students (3601).
3.4 Sample and Sampling Techniques
The researcher adopted simple random sampling technique in carrying the study. From each of the four (4) selected schools, fifty (50) senior secondary school two (SS2) students were selected. Therefore, this amounted to a total of two hundred (200) students. From the four public secondary schools representing the sample of the study.
3.5 Instrument for Data Collection
3.6 Validation of the Instrument
3.7 Administration of the Instrument
The researcher explains each of the items in the questionnaire. The questionnaire was return to the researcher after and accurate completion of the questions.
3.8 Method of Data Analysis
The method use in analyzing the data collected was chi-square statistics.
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