Needs For Guidance And Counselling Services In Primary Schools As Perceived By Primary School Teachers
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS]

CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This study investigated the need for guidance and Counselling services in primary schools as perceived by primary school teachers in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State. The researcher identified five categories of the needs for guidance and Counselling services in primary schools. These categories of need were stated in the instrument which was a questionnaire used for the study, after the administration and collection of the question, the data obtained were analyzed using the t-test and analysis of variances (ANOVA) statistical methods.

Discussion
    Table 5 to 8 revealed the testing of hypothesis, hypothesis one stated that “there is no significant difference between the perception of male and female primary school teacher on the need for guidance and Counselling services in primary school.” The result obtained indicated that there was no significant difference between the perception of male and female respondents because the calculated t-value is less than the critical t-value. It can therefore be conceded that both male and female respondents agreed with the above mentioned needs for guidance and Counselling services in primary schools. But from the descriptive analysis, more male teachers responded than female teachers. This could be due to the fact that male teachers are usually more active in school work especially in the maintenance of good school tone than female teachers who mostly maintain non challant attitudes except when compelled.
    Hypothesis two stated that “there is no significant difference among the primary school teacher in their perception of the need for guidance and Counselling services in primary schools based on their educational qualification.
    The hypothesis was tested using t-test statistical method. The result revealed no significant difference among the expressed perception of the respondents. This could be as a result of the growth in the level of awareness of guidance and Counselling by the Nigeria government within the past decade and which has led to the offering of courses, at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels of our tertiary institutions in guidance and Counselling. And since most of the primary many school teachers had attained either of NCE, bachelor degree or masters degree, they may have been equally aware of the need for guidance and Counselling services in our educational institutions.
    Hypothesis three stated that there is no significant difference between the perception of Christian and Muslim primary school teachers on the needs for guidance and Counselling services in primary schools the hypothesis accepted. The hypothesis was tested using one way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings as revealed on table 7 indicates that there was no significant different between the perception of Christian and Muslim respondents, because the calculated F-value was less than critical F-value. It can thus be concluded that both Christian and Muslim teachers agreed with the needs remunerated for guidance and Counselling services in primary schools. However, the analysis indicated for guidance and Counselling services of Christian teacher have a higher mean score. The reason for this could be that most of the Christian teachers view the guidance services to be complementary to research work while the Muslim teachers feel they can combine guidance with teaching work and so view the counselors (who may be employed) as unnecessary rivals.
    Hypothesis four stated that “there is no significant difference among the primary schools based on their year teaching experiences”. This hypothesis was tested using analysis of variance (ANOVA) method of statistics, the result revealed that there was no significant difference among the expressed perception of the respondents with varying teaching experiences is accepted. This mean that all the teachers regardless of their length of service agreed with the stated needs for guidance and Counselling in primary schools. This could be the to the realization that trained counselors had since the distant past been posted to secondary schools while the primary schools have been neglected to date. The need to provide primary school children with specialized assistance in terms of guidance has been neglected despite the fact that it is these young ones that will grow to be the future leaders. There is a strong feeling in all the primary school teachers that whatever is good for the goose is also good for the gender.