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INFLUENCE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF STUDENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. A CASE STUDY OF CRESTED HIGH SCHOOL IN KALUNGU DISTRICT (Issue 8)

The purpose of the study was to examine the role of guidance and counseling in
enhancing student discipline in secondary schools in Kalungu district. The study
was guided by Alfred Adler (1998) theory of personality, and humanistic theory of
Albert Bandura (1995) social learning model. The study adopted a descriptive
survey research design. Out of those a purposive sampling was used to select
teachers, students and headteachers. Simple random sampling and stratified
Random sampling was used to select 24 teachers and 262 students. The instruments
used to collect data for the study were questionnaires and interview schedule. The
study reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. The data was analyzed using
descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean scores, summary
tables, and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) program version 16.
Findings indicated that teachers employ dynamic interactions of a group of
student’s approach. Further, computer facilities were inadequate in guidance and
counseling. From the findings, guidance and counseling has improved discipline
and academic performance. There is enough proofing that lack of guidance and
counseling to students leads to indiscipline in schools. However, there is lack of
legal and policy framework, lack of trained teacher counselor and too much
workload for teachers hence making it difficult for guidance and counseling to
succeed in promoting student discipline. There is need to embrace dialogue in
resolution of conflict. This can be enhanced through building a strong relationship
between the students, counselors, teachers and administrators to an extent that
they are free to speak out issueless the affect both parties.

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