Effectiveness of Teacher Counsellors’ Delivery of Guidance and Counselling Services towards Enhancing Discipline among Students in Olokurto Division, Narok County, Kenya
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Date
2015
Authors
Kamundia, I. Robert
Kinga, Thomas N.
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Publisher
IISTE
Abstract
While education is expected to change the behaviour of learners positively by moulding them into self respecting
and self- reliant individuals, discipline related issues have been at the fore of educational debates as students
encounter challenges associated with adolescence. Cases of truancy, drug abuse, immorality, destruction of
property and loss of life, are however, indicators of the existence of a conflict between educational aims and
discipline among secondary school students. This is despite the provision of guidance and counselling services in
schools, hence the need to examine the effectiveness of guidance and counselling in enhancing discipline among
secondary school students. The objective of study was to examine the effectiveness of examine the effectiveness
of teacher counsellors’ service delivery of guidance and counselling services towards enhancing discipline
among secondary school students in Olokurto Division, Narok County, Kenya. Descriptive survey design was
employed in the study and a questionnaire was used obtain data from respondents. Person centred theory
advanced by Carl Rogers guided the study. The study population comprised 861 students, 12 teacher counsellors
and 6 deputy principals drawn from the six public secondary schools in the division. Stratified and simple
random sampling techniques were employed to sample 129 students for the study. Schools, deputy principals and
teacher counsellors in the division were purposively sampled. Using test-retest method, the instruments yielded a
reliability coefficient of r = 0.76, thus accepted for the study. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software
version 20.0 and presented in tables, charts, graphs, means, frequencies and percentages. The study established
that teacher counsellors could not effectively deliver guidance and counselling services due to their low levels of
training, heavy workload, lack of resources and facilities. The study recommends training of guidance and
counselling teachers, reduction of teaching load for teacher counsellors and strengthening of school guidance and
counselling departments through provision of resources and facilities. The findings and recommendations of this
study, if implemented will be useful to policy makers in the Ministry of Education, heads of secondary schools,
counselling personnel and students through improved services from more informed teacher counsellors.
Description
A Research Article in the Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
Keywords
Effectiveness, Teacher Counsellor, Discipline, Narok County.
Citation
Robert, K. I., & Kinga, T. N. Effectiveness of Teacher Counsellors’ Delivery of Guidance and Counselling Services towards Enhancing Discipline among Students in Olokurto Division, Narok County, Kenya.