EFFECTIVENESS OF REINFORCEMENT COUNSELLING TECHNIQUE IN REDUCING TRUANCY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE
EFFECTIVENESS OF REINFORCEMENT COUNSELLING TECHNIQUE IN REDUCING TRUANCY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE
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2015-08
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LAWAL, Mamman
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The study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of reinforcement counseling technique in
reducing truancy among Secondary School students in Kankia Zonal Education Quality
Assurance of Katsina state. The idea is to use a counseling technique that will help in addressing
the thorny problem of truancy among secondary school students in the Zonal Education Quality
Assurance of the state. To achieve this objective, three (3) objectives, three (3) research
questions and three (3) corresponding hypotheses were developed in the course of the study. A
quasi experimental design involving pre-test, post-test was used in the study. Purposive sampling
technique was used in selecting a sample size of thirty-two (32) respondents out of the total
number of three hundred and twenty-two (322) male and female truants drawn from the
population of 2633 students from four (4) co-educational secondary schools. Data collected in
the study was analyzed using mean distribution and t- test statistics. The three (3) research
questions and three (3) hypotheses which sought to find out the effect of reinforcement
counseling technique in the rate of reducing truancy problem among secondary school students
(respondents) exposed to reinforcement counseling technique based on gender and location
were answered and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study include; that, there
is significant effect of reinforcement counseling technique in the rate of truancy reduction on the
experimental group exposed to the treatment. The level of truancy of the experimental group was
greatly reduced after treatment of the reinforcement counseling technique compared with the
control group (t= .7007, p =.024), that there is a significant effect of reinforcement counseling
technique in the rate of truancy reduction on the male and female experimental group
(respondents) exposed to reinforcement counseling technique. The rate of truancy of male and
female respondents was greatly reduced after the treatment regardless of difference in gender
(t= 767, p= .456), there is also a significant effect of reinforcement counseling technique in the
rate of truancy reduction on the urban and rural respondents exposed to reinforcement
counseling technique. The rate of truancy of both urban and rural respondents was also greatly
reduced after treatment regardless of difference in location (t= 475, p= .642). Based on the
findings of the study, it was recommended that counselors, teachers and school principals should
be trained on reinforcement counseling techniques in re-addressing truant behavior among
secondary school students among others are made.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF EDUCATION (GUIDANCE
AND COUCNELLING) DEGREE IN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELLING FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
Keywords
EFFECTIVENESS,, REINFORCEMENT COUNSELLING TECHNIQUE,, REDUCING TRUANCY,, SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, KATSINA STATE,