Influence Of Guidance And Counselling In Career Choice Of Secondary School Students
[EKITI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE]

CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Introduction
    This chapter concerned the procedures adopted in carrying out the study. It contains all what has been done and how it was done. It is presented in terms of Research Design, Sample and Sampling Technique, Instrumentation, Validation of the Instrument, Reliability of the Instrument, Procedure for Data Collection and Data Analysis Techniques
Research Design
    The research design that was adopted for this study is descriptive survey method. The descriptive survey is the research method that enables a researcher to obtain the representative sample of target population as to make inferences about the entire population. Oniye (1997) described the descriptive survey method as the research design that examine the effort of the researcher on the collection of information from a representative sample upon which inferences are drawn about the opinion of the target population.
    In view of this assertion, the descriptive survey approach is considered appropriate for this study since the researcher is interested in collecting information form a representative sample of secondary school students across the 10 secondary schools in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State on various factors affecting career choices among the secondary school students. Also, information will be collected from the school counselors on the influence of Guidance and Counselling on Career Choices among the students.
Sample and Sampling Techniques
    The target population for this study comprised all secondary school students in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. The desired target population consisted secondary school students in both junior and senior secondary school category. The defined target population consisted of the senior secondary school two (SS 2) and the junior secondary school three (JSS 3). This choice is guided by the assumption that majority of JSS 3 students having spent three years in school, their responses will be sufficiently reliable. While the SS 2 students have completely adjusted to the transition from the junior secondary school level to2 the senior secondary school level. So, their responses would be sufficiently reliable for a research of this nature. Five secondary schools will be randomly selected out of the ten secondary schools in the Local Government Area. The stratified random sampling will be used to select students from each of the five schools considered. A total of 100 students will be used for the study.
Instrumentation
    Instrumentation/instrument, according to Hassan (1995), is the process of selecting tools which an investigator finds appropriate for the research. The main instrument for this study therefore is the questionnaire titled “The Influence of Guidance and Counselling on Career Choices Questionnaire (IGCCCQ) in Ekiti Local Government Area. It will have two sections A and B. Section A consists of the demographic information designed to reveal personal data of the respondents such as age, type of school, religion, sex, class level etc. Section B consists of questions designed to find out the various factors affecting career choices among the secondary school students and also the influence of guidance and counselling in career development among the secondary school students in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. The section B has a four point Likert type scale format of:
(a)    Strongly Agree (SA)
(b)    Agree (A)
(c)    Disagree (D)
(d)    Strongly Disagree (SD)
Psychometric Property of the Instrument
Validity
    Hassan (1995) describes validity as indication of the extent to which a measuring instrument measures what it is supposed to measure. Corrections made based on their observations and suggestions were adhere to and the final draft was adjudged valid by the experts.