The Effect of a Guidance Programme on Students' School Adjustment in Selected Lagos State Secondary Schools
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1986
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Omotosho, O.F
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University of Lagos
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The experimental and one central group were selected in each of two schools namely: King's and Queen's Colleges, Lagos. Each of the six groups consisted of 36 subjects. Each group was divided into A and B with 18 students each, for effective group counselling. There were 108 girls and 108 boys selected by random methods from the entire freshmen from each school. The investigator following the design by Withall (1967) gave a learner centered and problem-centered orientation treatment to the experimental groups Is, (ETGs) experimental group Is were given group counselling, using eclectic approach for a period of three months. The experimental group IIs (ETGIIs) were leaderless and unstructured. They were left to their own devices. They also met at the same time as the subject in the experimental groups. The control groups (CG) did not have any group experience at all.
A pretest-posttest design was used. The instruments used were:
1) The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) developed by Shostrom (1964) to measure values and behaviours perceived as important in the self-actualizing person. It consists of two major scales. The Time and Support Ratios, and 10 minor scales.
2) The anxiety scale of the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist - Today Form (MAACL) developed by Zuckerman and Libin, (1965) which measure situation - Specific anxiety. School records were used to obtain information on school adjustment specifically, absences, grade averages conduct grades and numbers of extra-curricular activities. Subjects in the treatment groups and the first control groups were given a subjective questionnaire which enabled them anonymously to evaluate the group experience and the investigator. The result of the pretest and post test of the two measuring instruments were statistically analyzed using analysis of variance and covariance techniques.
Statistically, significant differences were found on levels of anxiety between the experimental and the control groups. Both males and females in the experimental groups benefitted from treatment sessions. However, peer interaction favoured females more than
males. Females in control group 1 experienced reduced anxiety considerably more than males than both males and females in control group II.
Statistically, significant differences were found on the first major scale of the PCI, the Time Ratio between the experimental and control groups for males. No statistically significant differences were found on the second major scale of the PCI, the support ratio, between the experimental and control groups for males and females. Statistically significant differences were found between the treatment and the control groups on four and three of the ten subscales for male and females respectively. The overall result on the POI, in terms of change cannot be said to be significant, although both male and females registered some significant changes in some of the scales
No statistically significant differences were found in terms of school adjustment between the experimental and control groups for males and females.
Both male and females subjects in the experimental treatment groups I and II rated the group experience favourably.
The following recommendations were made:
1) The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) needs further investigation.
2) Various method of groups counselling maybe useful as treatment methods.
3) an eclectic approach to counselling is advocated.
4) Counselling Orientation programmes should be made available in all schools.
5) The role of age, intelligence and social factors on personal growth, self-actualization and reduction in anxiety should be further investigated
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Guidance Programme , School
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Omotosho, O.F (1986) The Effect of a Guidance Programme on Students' School Adjustment in Selected Lagos State Secondary Schools. University of Lagos School of Postgraduate Studies Phd Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts. 336pp.