EFFECTIVENESS OF HANDOUTS AS BIBLIOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE IN ENHANCING CAREER AWARENESS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN BAUCHI METROPOLIS

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2011-06
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ADAMU, YARO, HADIZA
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ABSTRACT This study examined the effectiveness of bibliotherapeutic techniques, in enhancing career awareness among secondary school students in Bauchi metropolis. Career Awareness Rating Scale (CARS), was administered to two hundred and fifty (250) students sampled from the entire senior secondary school students (SSS II) of both private and public schools in Bauchi Metropolis. They were randomly distributed into groups (Experimental and control groups), after they had responded to the instrument developed to obtain their pretest scores, therefore, 125 students were in the experimental group while 125 were in the control group. The subjects in the experimental group were exposed to handouts as bibliotherapeutic technique, while, the control group were not “t” test and standard deviation were employed in data analysis and the result showed that handouts as bibliotherapeutic technique can enhance secondary school students’ career awareness. It further revealed that gender difference will not affect the treatment package based an the findings, the study recommend that the use of handouts as a bibliotherpeutic technique in the curriculum of secondary school programme and should be handled by counsellors.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
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EFFECTIVENESS,, HANDOUTS,, BIBLIOTHERAPEUTIC,, TECHNIQUE,, ENHANCING,, CAREER,, AWARENESS,, AMONG,, SECONDARY,, SCHOOL,, STUDENTS,, BAUCHI,, METROPOLIS.
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