Students' Perception of Guidance and Counselling Services as Correlate of Educational Adjustment, Vocational Choice and Socio-personal Behaviours in Demonstration Secondary School Zaria, Kaduna State

The purpose of this research is to assess Students’ Perception of Guidance and Counselling Services as Correlate of Educational Adjustment, Vocational Choice and Socio-personal Behaviours in Demonstration Secondary School Zaria, Kaduna State. This research used a cross-sectional descriptive design. Stratified random sampling technique was employed in the collection of data. The total number of senior secondary school students used was 743 out of which 77were used a sample of the study Ten percent of the total student population from each selected class was used in the study. Student’s Perception Questionnaire (Researcher Designed) was used to collect data and Kruskal Wallis Test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used and analyzed the relationship among the variables. Although there was no statistically significant relationship between perception and students’ educational adjustment, there was however a weak linear statistically significant relationship between students’ perception of school guidance and counselling services and their vocation/career choice, and socio-personal behaviour. The study concludes that emphasis appears to be more towards the students’ vocational adjustment followed by their personal social adjustment, and least of all, their educational adjustment. The study further recommends that balanced school guidance and counselling service should be used to equally focus on all three aspects of school guidance and counseling.