INFLUENCE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES ON STUDENTS CAREER CHOICE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study examined the influence of guidance and counselling services on student career choice. The main purpose of the study is to ascertain the influence of guidance and counselling services on career choice of students. Three (3) research questions and two (2) hypotheses guided the study; it was a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all the fourteen (14) government schools in Onitsha North Local Government Area of Anambra State with the total number of 14, 469 students and 757 teachers. A simple random sampling technique was used to sample five respondents using 10% of the population. Instrument for data collection was a stratified questionnaire. The questionnaire was validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability co-efficient of the instrument. The methods of data analysis used for the study were mean and standard deviation while data were presented using table. It was found that the perception of students on the services of guidance counsellors is that the guidance counsellors should be more functional in the school they are posted to as to achieve those objectives.