Access to Academic Advising and Counselling of Pupils in Public Primary Schools in South East, Nigeria

This study investigated the extent to which pupils have access to academic advising and counselling in South East public primary schools in Nigeria.The subjects for the study comprise 1768 counsellors drawn from all the Public Primary Schools in the five states that constituted the South East, Nigeria.The instrument was validated by two experts in Guidance and Counselling one from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and another one from Ebonyi State University, Abakiliki all in Nigeria.A test-retest method of reliability was used and a reliablity co-efficient of 0.83 was obtained.Mean scores and z-test statistics were used in data analysis.The result included that there is no significant impact of academic advising and counselling services from two out of five States studied.Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that Government should provide counseling centers in all the Public Primary Schools to avail the Pupils of academic advising and counselling for better academic performance amongst others

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