Vocational Guidance and Counseling: Focus of Extent of its Need in Secondary Schools in Imo State of Nigeria.

Abstract:

This study aimed at examining the extent of the need for Vocational guidance in Secondary schools in Imo State. The study adopted a descriptive survey. The population for the study was made up of 105 students randomly selected from 98 public secondary schools across the three education zones in Imo State. Five research questions guided the study. A questionnaire named (ENVGSS) extent of Need for Vocational Guidance in secondary school was used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three experts from the Department of Measurement and Evaluation, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, and the instrument yielded .82,.95, .85, .93, and .92, which means that the instrument measured what it supposed to measure. It was recommended that students should be provided with adequate Vocational guidance to enable them to acquire enough occupational information so as to enable them to make correct occupational choices and decisions. It was concluded that vocational guidance should be provided adequately to secondary school students in the Imo state of Nigeria.