Dissemination of Career Information Using E-counselling among Secondary School Students in Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria

Abstract

To carry out the study on dissemination of career information through e- counselling a descriptive survey research study was used in Educational Zone of Enugu State Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study.  A total of 25 guidance counsellors and 34,244 students from 60 public secondary schools were also used with a sample size of 367 respondents. The composition of the population was 25 guidance counsellors and 342 students while all the counsellors were used because of the manageable size. To get the sample size, simple random sampling techniques was used to get 1% of the students’ population which gave a total of 342.The instrument used was Dissemination of Career Information Using E-Counselling Questionnaire (DCIUECQ)which was face validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education. It was trial tested using 30 students of Anambra State Secondary School and its internal consistency was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha co-efficient statistical method. The result gave overall Alpha- co-efficient value of 0.75. To answer the research questions posed, Mean and standard deviation were used while t-test statistics was also used to test the two null hypotheses.  The major findings revealed that the extent to which e-counselling facilities (computer system, cellular phone, CD-ROM, internet connection, web browser, flash drive, virus scanner, back up, among others are available for career information dissemination is low. it was found that the extent of students' awareness level of e-counselling opportunities for career information dissemination is low. The findings showed that provision of Word Wide Web, Internet facilities and headsets, installation of world web camera as well as sufficient personal computers connected to the school network among others are the strategies for enhancing utilization of e-counselling in career information dissemination among the secondary school students. There is no significant difference between the mean scores of student and counsellors on availability of e-counselling facilities for dissemination of career information, awareness level of e-counselling opportunities for career information dissemination. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made