Comprehensive Guidance and Counselling Programmes and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students in Edo State, Nigeria

This study assessed comprehensive guidance and counselling programmes and academic achievement of secondary school students in Edo State, Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. This was a correlation study based on survey research design. A sample of two thousand, two hundred secondary school students in Edo State, Nigeria were selected for the study. A validated instrument titled “Comprehensive Guidance and Counselling Programmes and Students’ Academic Achievement Questionnaire (CGCPSAAQ)†was used for collection of data for the study. The instrument was administered on the participants by the researcher and five research assistants specifically trained for the purpose. Data collected were analyzed using t-test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC). The analyses yielded the following results: that there was significant relationship between comprehensive guidance and counselling programmes and academic achievement of students in secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria and the significant relationship between comprehensive guidance programmes and achievement outcomes of secondary school students in Edo State, Nigeria was gender, school location and school type based. Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations among others were made: government should put in place comprehensive guidance and counselling programmes in all secondary schools and qualified guidance counsellors who are the drivers of counselling programmes should be employed in all secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria.