Evaluation of Students’ Perception of School Counseling and Their Attitudes toward its Programs

The instrument for data collection was Students’ Perception and Attitude Questionnaire (SPAQ) which was adopted and modified from the original one used by Uba [10]. The questionnaire made up of sixty-six items on the whole comprised three sections. Section A comprising six question was designed to elicit personal details or demographic data and sought intimation on age, sex, class, school location and parents occupational and educational attainment (use to determine Socio-economic status). Section B which dealt with perception, consists of thirty Likert type items (15 positive and 15 negative) focusing on several aspects of educational, personal-social and career guidance and counseling services. The last section, C made of thirty items (15 positive and 15 negative) concerned students attitudes towards some facets of school counseling programmes.

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