A Comparative Study Of Guidance And Counseling Services Effect On Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance In Ikenne Local Government Area
Abstract
The study examined relative study of guidance and comforting services effect on secondary academy scholars ’ academic performance in ikenne original government area, using Ikenne Community Secondary academy and Isanbi Comprehensive High School, Mainflower Secondary academy, Ilishan High School, Ilishan Remo as th study. More specifically, the study examined the impact of guidance and comforting on scholars ’ academic performance.
The study espoused the check exploration design and the intentional slice fashion to elect( 4) named public secondary academy within the two named communities( Ikenne and Ilishan) in Ikenne Local Government of Ogun State to give a sample size of 120 scholars. A well- developed, validated and dependable questionnaire was administered to the repliers to probe their opinions on how guidance and comforting services and programs affects their academic performance. The data generated from the check was subordinated to descriptive statistics and the squared fashion was employed to test the three suppositions that were formulated.
The results showed that guidance and comforting services are significantly available on the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance in ikenne original government area. likewise, the results unveiled that guidance and comforting programs has significantly impacted the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance. Also, the results revealed that guidance and comforting programs has significantly impacted the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance grounded on the actors ’ age and gender.
The study concludes that guidance and comforting services has significant effect on secondary academy scholars ’ academic performance in Ikenne Local Government Area.
The study suggested that; Appointing full time counselors in each academy should address control assaults and teething problems of scholars; Guidance programmes should be seriously bedded in the class of secondary seminaries to enable pupil understand the length assaults can go on there fellow scholars; Regional or a civil study should be accepted to give a much broader view of the subject understudy.
Chapter One
Preface
Background to the study
Since Nigeria Republic has established their independence after the colonization, numerous good developments took place, both in the structure and functioning of society, of which, educational system is no exception. In Nigeria, the system of education seems to suffer a noway – ending reform. “ As the reformation progresses, ” It isn’t surprising that not only children and parents but also educational authorities are getting confused and don’t know how to manage with the need of making choices in an decreasingly complex system of education. One of important need of Nigeria education is to take note of the academic performance of our scholars ’ in other to have a standard and well- performing of the society.
Academic performance which is the extent in which a pupil, schoolteacher or institution has achieved their short or long- term educational pretensions is reflected through Accretive GPA and completion of educational degrees similar as High School and Bachelor’s degrees. It can also be refers to a child’s success and performance in academy and can be measured by grade point pars, as a cluster of achievement tests or, using specific tests for reading or computation chops, similar as reading speed, ignorance and appreciation, and the capability to break logical/ computation problems( Joseph, Karol, Peter and Marek, 2016).
Throughout the nations similar as Nigeria, great concern is being expressed about how inadequately children are performing on tests in mathematics, reading and wisdom. The future of every nation depends on a citizenship who knows how to share in the popular process educated and trained for the job request. Hence the need for academic procedure that’s well seasoned with competent Guidance and Counseling services as early as possible at every step of academic exercise. Studies have it that private Secondary seminaries ’ education fiscal commitment doesn’t ameliorate scholars ’ performance on achievement tests per se. Really, what matters is tutoring quality, and not vacuity of academy outfit and structure. Hence, the need for seasoned preceptors to acquaint tone with the factual factors of academic performance which encompass
The current Academic Performance in Africa according to a report by Olu Adenipekun( 2017), Head of National Office of the West African Examination Council, WAEC, blazoned the réclame news of a seven percent enhancement in the number of campaigners that passed the examination with five credits. Last time, that’s 2016,52.9 percent of the campaigners recorded the feat. The number jumped to59.22 percent this time( 2017), out of the campaigners that sat for the examination. He said that 923,486 of the campaigners that sat for the examination attained a minimum of credits in five subjects and over, including English Language and Mathematics. Giving a farther breakdown of the results, the WAEC master said that campaigners, representing69.94 per cent, attained credits and above in six subjects.
The question one may ask encompass what factor could have responsible for similar percentile increase? Could this be associated with the impacts of guidance and comforting which governments tend to be floating in utmost secondary academy? If similar be the case, comforting becomes essential requirements for better academic performance. These questions, thus, call for the assessment of the purpose and the vacuity of G&C services that could have responsible or contribute to this nanosecond change in the present Nigerians ’ WAEC result. Hence, the need to consider the purpose of G&C and its ’ visible impacts on scholars ’ academic performance.
Purpose of Guidance and Counseling
furnishing the demanded information & backing
Helping in individual to make wise choices
Ameliorate the understanding of tone
grease the adaptation
Helps in conforming to the changes or new terrain
Making tone- sufficient & independent Effective use of capabilities & gift
Promote the optimal particular & professional development
Balanced physical, cerebral, emotional, social & spiritual growth
Helps in overall development & to live productive life
lately, Guidance and Counseling has actually recorded ample achievements similar as, helping in the academic growth & development, vocational & professional maturity, Easing individualities in the right education & profession, offering help to handle educational & professional situations, helping in the proper application of mortal coffers and in conforming to the changing conception of education. Also, in preparing to acclimatize in changing professional situations & arising challenges and in making proper career choice with minimize indiscipline.
As suggested by the experimenter findings, high- quality comforting services can have long- term goods on a child’s well- being with academic performance inclusive, and can help a pupil from turning to violence and medicine or alcohol abuse actions. High- quality academy comforting services can as well ameliorate a pupil’s academic achievement. Being Studies on the goods of academy comforting have shown positive goods on pupil’s grades, reducing classroom dislocations, and enhancing preceptors ’ capacities to manage classroom geste effectively. also, High- quality academy comforting services can help to address scholars ’ internal health requirements. ”(U.S. Department of Education, 2002)
Hence, School guidance programs aren’t just essential but pivotal requirements to be made available so as to help scholars overcome multitudinous challenges they witness at home and at academy. This would latterly enable them to yield positive result in their academic achievement or performances. Guidance is a rudimentary component that plays a pivotal part in academy system and insists on upholding the social and moral values of scholars, suppress, control and deflect geste . thus, this study is to assessthe impact of Guidance and Counseling on academic performance of public Secondary seminaries pupil in Ilishan Remo Area of Ogun State, Nigeria.
Statement of Problem
The challenge of education moment is to offer academy gests that give scholars with openings to develop the understandings, chops, and stations necessary to come lifelong learners, able of relating and working problems and dealing with change. scholars need to be suitable to communicate easily, adeptly, and confidently from a broad knowledge base in order to make thoughtful and responsible opinions. Achieving these educational pretensions will give scholars with the means to make connections between what they learn and how they live( Public School Programs 2000 – 2001).
In response to these challenges, how can the government shift guidance and comforting from a position- concentrated model that delivers services to specific populations to a comprehensive model that delivers services to all scholars in the academy?
Academic performance of public secondary academy is declining overtime, especially in our contemporary where it seems as if that the government don’t watch about the performance of the scholars in public secondary seminaries. still, utmost of time professional counselor tends not to be made available in public secondary academy, in order to promote the academic performance of the scholars. This situation frequently has a negative reflection on scholars; character, social particular and moral values in public secondary academy. Grounded on the nature of guidance and comforting services, it’s visible that academic performance which of great important to public development could be greatly enhance; hence this study is out. According to Proverbs 1114, which say where there’s no counsel purposes are destroy, but in the multitude of counselors there issafety.
Grounded on this bible citation how can comforting services make a great effect in public secondary academy compare to private secondary academy, in order to enhance the safety knowledge, acquire by scholars. nonetheless, they feel to be a minimum vacuity of comforting services in places Ilishan city of Ogun State. Hence, there’s need for one to compare the present part of comforting services on academic performance of public secondary academy and private secondary academy scholars, failure to do these may amount to incapability to quantify the important of comforting services in education. This may ultimately affect in serious lack of educational poor academic achievement among public secondary academy pupil, compare to private secondary academy scholars.
The Purpose of the study
This study sought to examine the influence of guidance and comforting on the academic performance in public secondary seminaries scholars ’ in Ikenne original government area.
Objects Of The Study
The main objects of this study are to assess the part of Guidance and comforting while the specific objects are to
Describe the available guidance and comforting services and the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance in Ikenne original government area.
ii. Examine how guidance and comforting programs is impacting the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance
iii. Determine how guidance and comforting programs is impacting the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance grounded on the actors ’ age and gender.
exploration Question
What are the available guidance and comforting services and the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance in Ikenne original government area?
How can guidance and comforting programs impact the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance?
How can guidance and comforting programs impact the public secondary seminaries scholars ’ academic performance grounded on the actors ’ age and gender.
Exploration Hypotheses
H01 There’s no significant relationship between studentss ’ academic performance and guidance and comforting services in the public secondary seminaries in Ikenne original government.
H02 There’s no significant relationship between the guidance and comforting programs and the scholars ’ academic performance in the public secondary seminaries in Ikenne original government.
H03 There’s no significant relationship between the guidance and comforting service and the scholars ’ academic performance in the public secondary seminaries in Ikenne original government grounded on age and gender.
Significance of the Study
The study will be of great important as it relates to youthful people in public secondary seminaries in Ikenne original government area. Without mistrustfulness this is the anticipated unborn leader of great Nation( Nigeria) and any nation that fails to plan or have concern for the academic performance of the youth, has planned to failed; with a great fall. The study will further be of great benefit to numerous similar as experimenter and other academic stock holder; it’ll add new knowledge to being academic knowledge in exploration field also academic stockhold similar as administration and parent will get to know the substance of guidance and comforting as relate to academic performance of scholars. Eventually, current public secondary will get to realize the important of academic performance in present future.
Compass Of The Study
This study is limited to the public secondary academy scholars in Ikenne original government area, Ogun State Nigeria. Designed to assess the influence of guidance and comforting on academic performance of public secondary seminaries in Ikenne original government area.
Operation Description Of Terms
Guidance relate to rudimentary component that plays a pivotal part in academy system and insists on upholding the social and moral values of scholars. It’s intended to suppress, control and deflect geste .
Comforting Comforting relate to the service offered to the existent who’s witnessing a problem and needs professional help to overcome it.
Academic performance Academic performance can be pertaining to the extent to which a pupil, schoolteacher or institution has achieved their short or long- term educational pretensions. Accretive GPA and completion of educational degrees similar as High School and Bachelor’s degrees represent academic achievement.
Impact refers to measure of palpable effect and impalpable effect of thing influence upon.
Service refers to act of help or backing offer to an existent.
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