Principals’ and Students’ Attitude Towards Provision of Guidance and Counselling Servises and Maintenance of Dicsipline in Secondary Schools of Nyamira District-Kenya

PRINCIPALS’ AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS PROVISION OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVISES AND MAINTENANCE OF DICSIPLINE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF NYAMIRA DISTRICT-KENYA
BY: DR. OURU JOHN NYAEGAH

ABSTRACT
The overall running, control, tone maintenance, the general development of school education and all-round standards in secondary schools is the ultimate responsibility of the principals. They are particularly charged with the responsibility of fostering the right atmosphere for child growth and development (Calestine, 2002). Principals must constantly be in touch with all school activities, whether academic or co-curricular although they may delegate some of their many responsibilities to other members of staff (Republic of Kenya, 1979). In essence, the principal is held responsible in case of the failure of any activity or services in the school (Mbithi, 1974).

It is within this set up that this paper endevoured to investigate principals’ and students’ attitudes towards provision of guidance and counselling services and maintenance of discipline in schools of Nyamira District. The study also sought to determine the importance of guidance and counselling in the running of schools and establish whether principals were trained to guide and counsel students. The study used questionnaires for principals and students as research instruments which were issued to eighty (80) principals and four hundred and four (404) students drawn from sixty (60) public and twenty (20) private secondary schools. The questionnaires were each divided into three parts. The first part sought demographic information of the respondents and schools. The second part contained attitude items while the third part contained open-ended questions. Besides that, the study used interview schedules for principals and also observation schedule.

The study was Ex-Post Facto in design. Two-tailed T-test and One Way analyses of Variance (ANOVA) were used for data analysis. The T-test was used to

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