FACTORS AFFECTING CHOICE OF CAREER AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ESAN NORTH EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
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FACTORS
AFFECTING CHOICE OF CAREER AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ESAN NORTH EAST
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE.
ABSTRACT
This study is aimed at identifying the factors affecting career choice among
senior secondary schools students in Esan North East Local Government Area of
Edo State. The instrument used for collection of data or information in this
research is mainly the questionnaires. The questionnaires were distributed to
one hundred and sixty respondents selected.
To test the validity of the stated research questions from their respondents it
was discovered that many of the option career choice education should be
introduced in senior secondary schools in Esan North East local government
area. Some findings were also made in this research, which will be of great
benefit to the students in the need to establish guidance and counselling
facilities centres in senior secondary schools.
In conclusion, the presence of guidance and counselling facilities centres in
secondary schools will help to solve career choice problems facing the
students.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
SCOPE AND DELIMITATION
DEFINITION OF TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
CONCEPT OF CAREER CHOICE
THEORIES OF CAREER CHOICE
FACTORS AFFECTING CHOICE OF CAREER
SUMMARY
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
POPULATION
INSTRUMENTATION FOR DATA COLLECTION
VALIDITY OF INSTRUMENT
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION AND FINDINGS
DISCUSSION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER FIVE
RECOMMENDATION
CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATIONS
REFERENCES
QUESTIONNAIRE
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND
OF STUDY
Career selection is one of the
main important choice in students plans. This choice of decision will have
impact on them throughout their lives. The essence of who the students are,
will revolve around what the students wants to do with his or her greatest
blessings. Everyone is always eager to have honest occupation. The way the
students perceive their environment for example, students who have hired on an
island may choose a career dealing with water or they may choose to leave the
island behind and never to have any thing to do with water again.
Parents’ educational and
occupational background may affect students choice of career because some
students may contemplate on whether to continue with their parents occupation
or not. What the students see in the television also may affect their career
choice some careers demand that you have the personality to match the qualities
of the occupation. For these reasons the necessity of a guidance counsellor on
schools cannot be over emphasized. A career guidance counsellor is needed to
unreliable and dangerous source in search of career information such as culture
peer groups which can lead to their graduating into armed robbery and other
criminal business unintentionally. This study will be carried out in Esan North
East Local Government Area of Edo State will be useful to the guidance
counsellors in assisting senior students in their career also help the ministry
of education in curriculum planning to widen the students career choice
opportunities through curriculum content of educational system.
Tuche (2002) is right in
suggesting that the students should think of their career in senior secondary schools
in so doing they need career guidance. Ipaye (1983) refers to the need for one
to discuss with one peers, school counsellors, parents and teachers on the need
to choose a life span work as “career convention or career conferences”.
However, career convention according to him is an instrument of career
information. This occur for a number of reasons, which include the following:
a.
To
stimulate career thinking and widen occupational horizon.
b.
To focus
attention on particular jobs in other to help an individual crystallize his
preference and
c.
To create
a situation in which parents can on one hand meet the employers and discuss the
opportunities they offer and on other hand meet the career teachers or career
officers with whom they can exchange views.
The factors that may influence
choice of career includes:
i.
Socio
economic factors
ii.
Personal
or family factors
iii.
Cultural
factors which include schools, peer group and age groups.
STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEM
1.
What are
the possible causes or factors affecting the choice of career among secondary
school students in Esan North East local government area of Edo State?
2.
How
significant has this contribution been over the years?
3.
To what
extent has private sectors investment actually affected the choice of career
among secondary school students.
4.
What is
actually the contribution of both private and public secondary schools on the
choice of career of secondary school students?
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
1.
Is there
any need for learning career choice in senior secondary school?
2.
If there
is reasons for reading career choice in schools, is it of benefit to the
students?
3.
How does
career choice affect the academic performance of students?
4.
Does
student’s choice of career influence by their peer group?
5.
What are
the factors responsible for a student’s wrong choice of career?
PURPOSE
OF THE STUDY
The main purpose of the study is an attempt to examine the factors affecting
the choice of career among secondary school students in Esan North East local
government area of Edo State. It will also examine what extent the factors
affecting the choice of career will aid the students positive or at times
negatively.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
The importance of this research work is to find to what extent the factors
affecting choice will influence the students choice of career and the
attendance performance of students on the subject’s that would lead them
successfully towards this occupation as a life time endeavour.
a.
It will
enable the researcher give recommendations to the students on their choice of
career.
b.
It will
enable the researcher make necessary recommendations to the parents about their
children mildness to advice given to them on their choice of career.
c.
It will
enable the researcher make recommendations to school administrations.
d.
It will
enable the researcher make concrete recommendations to the government about the
choice of career among secondary schools students especially now that the rate
of unemployment is high.
e.
The
findings will enable the researcher to make recommendations to further
researchers on the issue of career prospects.
SCOPE
OF THE STUDY
The research work limit itself to factors affecting the choice of career among
secondary schools students in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo
State.
This research will cover five
randomly selected secondary schools in Esan North East Local Government Area of
Edo State. Four of which are public and one is private. The schools randomly
selected include the followings.
1.
Igba Grammar
school
2.
Egbele
secondary school
3.
Efandion
grammar school
4.
Ubiagia
secondary school
5.
Ukong
mixed secondary school
6.
Aladies
of lus
7.
Ewaito
secondary school
8.
Okpugie
grammar school
DEFINITION
OF TERMS
CAREER - A
chosen pursuit or course of business activity or enterprise, especially one's
professional life or employment that offers advancement and honour.
EFFECT – To
produce a change in somebody or something.
INFLUENCE- The
power that somebody or something has a mark somebody or something behind a
particular way of the influence a parents on choice of career of their
children.
PROSPECT: The
chances of being successful good job/employment/career prospect.
SCHOOL: The
school is a place where children need to be educated. The process of learning
in a school; the time during your life when you go to school.
EXAMINATION – A
formal written spoken or practical test, especially at school or colleges to
see how much you know about a subject or what you can do to take an exam
(forma) to sit for an exam to pass so fat an exam.
SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: These
students general are in the average age range of 15-18 years and they are in
SSS 1-SSS 3 classes.
GOVERNMENT: The
group of people who govern a country or a state.
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