• The Impact Of Guidance Service On The Secondary School Students
    [A CASE STUDY OF OKITIPUPA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE]

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    • 1.2    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
              Some students choose subject hazardously and indiscriminately, simply because they feel they are good in themselves, without taking their desired professions into considerations, thus, at the end of their examination they have chosen the wrong choice of subject combinations. There are some also who do not know the requirement or the type of subject one could pass before being admitted for specific course such as medicine, pharmacy, law and others.
      1.3    PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
              The purpose of this study is to find out the impact of guidance services in secondary school students. It is also to examine the position of guidance and counselling services in Nigeria education system especially the 6-3-3-4 system of education in order to suggest solutions to the problem based on the findings of the research.
      1.4    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
              Since students in secondary school are mainly adolescent, they are conscious of the fact that they are approaching adult status, yet they are unsure of themselves as a result of this, they need guidance services in order to facilitate the adolescents academic success, to help them in the better understanding of their strengths and limitations to identify reality goals.
      1.5    RESEARCH QUESTIONS
              The following research questions were raised in other to assist investigation.
      1.   Do you have guidance counsellor in your schools?
      2.   Did most of your school teachers have a  guide habit to the students?
      3.   Do guidance counselling help to influence the students morally?
      4.   Do students disregard the guidance counsellor in your school?
      1.6    SCOPE OF THE STUDY
              In the research of this study, the researcher intends to cover five selected senior secondary school students in a case study of Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State with respondents made up of teenagers of senior secondary school age.
      1.8    DEFINITION OF TERMS
      Impact: Here, impact is strong impression or effect, of guidance and counseling on students career choice.
      Career: In this contest, career simply means the sequence of occupations, vocation, job and aspiration that one goes through, throughout ones working life.  
      Guidance: Guidance is derived from the word guide. It is the assistance rendered to an individual in making him or her understand himself and what is capable of doing.
      Counselling: This is concerned with creating opportunity and suitable environment for the persona, social, education and vocational development. It deals with the effective side of the individual based attitudes about the value and worth of human being.
      Value: value deals with the quality of being useful or important. It also belief about what is right or wrong and what is important for human in life.
      Techniques: Techniques has to do with the act of improving a lot over a particular skill, especially one in which you have to learn special skills. Techniques help the students by developing morally and intellectually.
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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The purpose of this study was to find the impact of guidance services on secondary school students; a case study of Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. The research study was also aimed at ascertaining whether the career guidance services are not adequate in the selected secondary schools. In carrying out the study, a questionnaire designed by the researcher was used to collect information from one hundred (100) respondents comprising of students on the selected schools. The data coll ... Continue reading---