THE EFFECT OF CAREER CHOICE ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
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THE EFFECT OF CAREER CHOICE ON THE
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
OF EDO STATE
ABSTRACT
This study is aimed at identifying
the factors affecting career choice among senior secondary schools students in
Egor 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 Egor 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 choice of career. The
oxford advanced learners dictionary, 6th edition of current English
defines choice as the right to choose or the possibility of choosing and also
defines career as a job or profession especially one with opportunities for
promotion. According to Johnson (1976) defined career as ones lifework in order
words, career is ones profession which includes a number of occupation,
vocations or jobs one person engage in during his or her working life. Career
is the course of events that constitute a life, the sequence of occupations and
other life roles which combine express ones commitment to work in his or her
total pattern of self development.
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 Egor 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.
According to National Policy on
Education, a school is incomplete without a counsellor’s office. If you are
teaching biology and the child does not understand it, there must be problems
that need to be sported out. It could be psychological problems that are
affecting the child’s concentration. Until you solve that problem, the child
may not make any progress. Both the public and private schools need progress.
Even tertiary institutions need counsellors. Everybody needs counselling.
The factors that may influence
choice of career include;
i.
Socio economic factors
ii.
Personal or family factors
iii.
Cultural factors which include schools, peer group and age groups.
STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEM
Parental
influence in making right career choices when you talk about career or career
information, parent can contribute, but the final decision is taken by the
chooser. Upsurge in deviant behaviour among pupils the blame goes to us, the
mothers of these children our mothers labored to bring the children up. Both
the present generation of mothers have allowed their homes to fall. If homes
are in ruins and you engage a counsellor in the school to talk to these
children, the impact would not make much difference. On the other hand,
children from stable homes are more disposed to gain from the school
counsellor. I believe a counsellor can feel the vacuum created by the
negligence of some parents to cater for their children, but the result is often
exceptionally wonderful roles.
PURPOSE OF
THE STUDY
The main purpose of the study is an attempt to examine the effect the choice of
career among secondary school students in Egor 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.
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
1.
Is there any need for learning career choice in senior secondary school?
2.
Are students choice of career influenced by their peer group?
3.
Is there reasons for reading career choice in schools, is it of benefit to the
students?
4.
Does career choice affect the academic performance of students?
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.
SCOPE
OF THE STUDY
The research work limits itself to effect the choice of career among secondary
schools students in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
This research will cover five
randomly selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
Four of which are public and one is private. The schools randomly selected
include the followings.
1.
Iyoba Girls College
2.
Uselu Secondary School
3.
Uwagboe Secondary School
4.
Technical College
5.
Adolor College
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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