USE OF COUNSELLING STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
This study investigated the use of counselling strategies for enhancing academic performance among secondary schools students in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted with sample size of one hundred and fifty (150) respondents (twenty (20) teachers and one hundred and thirty (130) students) randomly selected from five (5) senior secondary school students in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. One validated instrument was used for data collection and the data collected were analyzed using frequency count, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Four research questions were answered. The findings of the study revealed that Counselling strategies such as one-on-one counselling technique, life-skills therapy, peer tutoring technique, mentoring technique, collaborative learning technique among others are used for enhancing academic performance among secondary schools students in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. Likewise, the study shows that counselling strategies have positive impact on the academic performance among secondary schools students in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The study further revealed that counselling strategies have positive impact in developing students’ interests towards Career development in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. Finally, this study also revealed that lack of specific time allocation for counselling; inadequate resources and facilities; heavy workload on the counsellors; lack of school counsellors; and students’ unwillingness to share their problem with the counsellors are all challenges facing guidance and counselling programme in secondary schools. The study therefore recommended that Teachers and Counsellors should enhance the guidance and counselling programme in their schools to improve the academic performance of the students. In like manner, the government should add more support to the guidance and counselling programme in the schools through the provision of funds for all the services in the programme. Finally, Guidance and counselling programme should be strengthened in order to improve the academic performance of secondary schools students in Ondo state public schools
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