The Impact of Guidance and Counselling Services on Occupational Aspirations of Adolescents of Secondary Schools
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Counselling, Guidance, ServicesAbstract
The present study has been conducted to find out the impact of ‘Guidance & Counselling services’ and ‘Occupational Aspirations’ of adolescents of secondary schools of Delhi. A self-made Occupational Aspirations questionnaire and a module for Guidance and Counseling services were used to find the impact. Reliability and validity of both the tools were calculated by the investigator. The result showed positive impact of Counselling and Guidance services on the Occupational Aspirations of the secondary school adolescents. For the sample for the study, the investigator selected 9 Class of a secondary school of Directorate of Education, Delhi. Investigator selected two sections of
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9 Class. Each section has 45 students (both boys and girls). One section was selected as the ‘experimental group’
and another was selected as a ‘control group’. Thus, 90 students were selected for the study. The procedure and treatment included conducting of seventeen sessions with an average of five sessions of 40–45 minutes per week.
Results and Discussions – Experiments that apply the same kind of treatment can apply a test or measurement in two places: before the treatment, which is a Pre-test and after the treatment, which is a Post-test.
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