EFFECTS OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN MANAGING STUDENTS DISCIPLINE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FAKO DIVISION, SOUTHWEST REGION OF CAMEROON

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this work was to investigate the effectiveness of guidance and counselling services in managing students behavior in government secondary schools in the Kumba III municipality. The general research objective which was to investigate the effectiveness of guidance and counselling in managing students’ behaviour gave rise to three specific research objectives; to establish the extent to which team work among counselors influence successful management of students’ behaviour, to establish the usage of guidance and counseling services in managing students’ behaviour and to find out the influence of the counselee level of participation in the effectiveness of guidance and counseling in managing students’ behaviour. From the objectives, three research questions were formulated; what is the influence of team work among counselors influence successful management of students’ behaviour, what is the usage of  guidance and counseling services in managing students’ behaviour and what is the influence of the counselee level of participation in the effectiveness of guidance and counseling  in managing students’ behaviour. The study employed a cross-sectional research design and the simple random sampling technique was used to the respondents. Three government schools with resident counselors in Meme Division were uses in the study with sample size of 200 participants and six counselors. A student questionnaire and an interview guide for counselors were designed by the researcher as instruments for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were uses to analyze data. Table, pie, column and bar charts were used to analyze data, while hypothesis were tested through chi-square using the Statistical Passage for Social Science (SPSS) Version 20.0. The findings of the study revealed that team work among counselors influence has a significant effects on the successful management of students’ discipline, the effectiveness of guidance and counseling has a significant effects in managing students’ discipline and that counselee level of participation in  the  in guidance and counselling has a significant effects in managing students’ discipline in government secondary schools in Kumba Ill municipality. As a recommendation, school counselors should be efficient in providing their service and encourage students to make effective use of guidance and counseling in order to maintain behaviour in schools. Some suggestions were made for future studies.

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