Guidance and Counseling as Predictor of Effective Teaching, Learning and Career Success among Senior Secondary School Students in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated guidance and counseling as predictor of effective teaching, learning and career success among senior secondary school students in Rivers State, Nigeria. Three research questions with its corresponding hypotheses were generated to guide the study. This study adopted correlational research design, involving (350) senior secondary school students in SS3. A simple random sampling technique was used to get a sample size of 187 SS3 students using Taro Yemen formula. A research questionnaire was used to collect the data. The instrument was subjected to a reliability test using Cronbach Alpha method and reliability coefficients of 0.85, 0.77, 0.82 and 0.78 were obtained, showing that the instrument was reliable. Simple regression was adopted and used in answering the research questions. The hypotheses were tested with ANOVA associated with simple regression at 0.05 level of significance using, Special Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The study concludes guidance and counseling indeed predicts significantly effective teaching and learning as well as career success among secondary school students. Recommendations were made such as; school authorities should be enlightened more on the counselors’ roles, there is also need to define the counselors’ roles in the school system and counselors’ role should be separated from teaching. This will help to erase the misconceptions about the role and task of school counselors often misinterpreted as administrative assistants.