APPRAISAL OF PRACTISING COUNSELLORS' PERSONALITY, AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDANCE PROGRAMME IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY SECONDARY SCHOOLS
APPRAISAL OF PRACTISING COUNSELLORS' PERSONALITY, AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDANCE PROGRAMME IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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1997
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OCHOLI, EKUNDAYO FEHINTOLA
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Abstract
The major objective of this study was to assess the personality traits,
vocational interest and training levels of the practising counsellors and the
effectiveness of guidance programme in the Federal Capital Territory Secondary
Schools. Five research questions were asked and five hypotheses were also
formulated. The population of this study was made up of practising counsellors,
teachers and students. In specific, 45 counsellors, 331 teachers and 728 students
were sampled.
The instrument for data collection were a modified version of Holland's Self-
Directed Search (SDS), Bakare's Vocational Interest Inventory (VII) and Guidance
Programme Appraisal Scale (GPAS) constructed by the researcher. All these
instruments have psychometric properties of validity and reliability established for
them. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), chi-square and Product Moment Correlation
were the statistical techniques used to analyse the data.
The findings of the study revealed that practising counsellors in Federal
Capital Territory belong to the social group, hence Holland typological theory is
applicable to the practising counsellors vocational interest pattern and personality
types. The study further revealed that Bakare's vocational interest inventory which
is an indigenous inventory can also be used to identify the counsellors' vocational
interest area.
From the findings of the study, it can be concluded that: as a group,
counsellors in the Federal Capital Territory belong to the social personality type,
bearing relevance to Holland typological theory. Sex was not an intervening variable
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in the vocational choice of practising counsellors in Federal Capital Territory.
Teachers and students perceived their counsellors and counselling programmes as
being effective.
Based on the findings and conclusions, it was recommended that employers
of labor should endeavor to employ candidates who exhibit congruency between
their personality type and the career requirement they want to undertake.
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THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION
(GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
1997
Keywords
APPRAISAL, PRACTISING, COUNSELLORS', PERSONALITY, EFFECTIVENESS, GUIDANCE, PROGRAMME, FEDERAL, CAPITAL, TERRITORY, SECONDARY, SCHOOLS