ABSTRACT The research was aimed at determining the factors that motive the occupational preference of Regional Maritime University Students. The purpose of doing this was to use the information generated to proffer counselling information for counsellors, parents and other stake holders. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 305 undergraduate students as sample for the study using a Cross-sectional Survey Design. A standardized test; ‘Motivation for Occupational Preference Scale�...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the guidance programme as organized in the NVTI centres in the Central Region of Ghana. A descriptive survey research design was adopted to carry out this study. Through the use of the purposive and the simple random sampling procedures, 44 coordinators/teachers and 194 students were selected from the NVTI centres to participate in the study. A set of questionnaires were used to gather the requisite information from the respondents in order to answer the research ...
ABSTRACT This study assessed family and marriage counselling services in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study employed the descriptive research design. Through the simple random sampling procedure, 40 churches were selected for the study. A counsellor, with the longest number of years in counselling was selected from each church. The data for the study were gathered with the use of questionnaires and analysed through the computation of descriptive stati...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the guidance needs of Senior High School students in the Wassa Amenfi West and Wassa Amenfi East Districts of the Western Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was adopted.. Samples were drawn from the three public Senior High Schools in the two districts. Respondents were made up of 250 students and 25 teachers. Data for the study were obtained through questionnaire. The data collected were organized into tables. Frequencies and perc...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find out whether Kwabre District Senior High School students make rational choices of academic programmes in school. The population of the study was all students in the six Senior High Schools in Kwabre District. However, the Form 3 students were purposively sampled for the study. Stratified random sampling technique with proportional allocation was used to sample 331 Form 3 students from the various programmes in each school for the study. A self-made questionnai...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to interview ministers of the gospel to ascertain their counselling needs as well as the coping mechanisms implemented to mediate the stressors in their personal and professional lives. There is limited academic research provided through the lens of seasoned clergy which reveals their counselling needs related to sustaining ministry. The design for this study was a descriptive analytical survey. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed in ...
ABSTRACT The study was to find out the nurture experiences that influence JHS Students career aspirations, where students seek career information, the levels of students’ knowledge on career alternatives and measures students adopt to achieve their career aspirations in Berekum Municipality. The study covered a sample of 303 respondents randomly selected from students of five Junior High Schools in Berekum Municipality. Descriptive survey method was used for the research design. Questionnai...
ABSTRACT The study examined the determination of student’s leaning behaviour of selected Public Senior High School in Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region of Ghana. A descriptive survey research design was adopted using sample of 320 students randomly selected from eight Senior High School in Cape Coat. A questionnaire was use to gather the date. The Cronbachs alpha coefficient for the reliability of the of the instrument was 0.823. Means, standard deviation and independent t-test we...
ABSTRACT This study employed the descriptive survey to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of HIV counsellors in HIV counselling and testing in the Central Region of Ghana. In all, 140 HIV counsellors from the Central Region were sampled through the use of the purposive sampling procedure. The convenient sampling procedure was adopted to carry out the observation sections. Questionnaires and observation guide were used to collect the necessary data for the study. Descriptive statisti...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to ascertain the attitude university students have towards online counselling in the College of Humanities, University of Ghana. The study employed the descriptive survey design. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 500 respondents from a population of 17,815 students from the College of Humanities, University of Ghana. The study made use of primary data through the use of an adapted Online Counselling Attitude Scales for data col...
ABSTRACT This study was an attempt to identify the determinants of academic underachievement among University of Cape Coast students. Five hundred sixty five under performing respondents were purposively sampled out of 3,459 students from the 2002- 2003 year group for the study. A research questionnaire was designed and used to obtain the data for the study. The internal consistency method was used to establish a reliability coefficient of 0.82 for the questionnaire. Frequencies, percentages,...
ABSTRACT This research sought to ascertain the impact of sexual harassment on the academic and social life of female students in the Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Akuapem North Municipality. Making informed decision when confronted with acts of sexual harassment is a great hurdle to the female senior high student. A descriptive survey design was used to investigate phenomenon. The populations of the study were 104 female students in 4 Senior High Schools in the Akuapem North District. Purp...
ABSTRACT Competition, misunderstanding and mistrust are likely to occur when people meet as a group which could ultimately result in conflict or indiscipline. Since the school is a miniature of a society, conflict and indiscipline are likely to occur too. In this regard, the researcher sought to examine the extent to which the authorities manage to curb the level of indiscipline in New-Abirem Junior High School in the Birem North District. The population for the study comprised guidance co-or...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine factors that affected implementation of Guidance and Counselling services in three of the Colleges in Ghana. This was necessitated since it appeared that Colleges were not effectively fulfilling their mandate in guiding and counselling students in the colleges in decision making. The study adopted an Action Research design with a sample size of 250 students selected from three colleges of education in the Eastern Region of Ghana using a simple ...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to find out adolescents knowledge and use of contraceptives in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis. Three hundred adolescent male and female students were randomly selected from three senior high schools in the Metropolis to constitute the sample for the study. The instrument that was used to collect data was a questionnaire. Frequency distribution and percentages were used to summarise the data. The findings from the study indicated that adolescents have m...