While education is expected to change the behaviour of learners positively by moulding them into self-respecting and self-reliant individuals, discipline related issues have been at the fore of educational debates as students encounter challenges associated with adolescence. Cases of truancy, drug abuse, immorality, destruction of property and loss of life, are however, indicators of the existence of a conflict between educational aims and discipline among secondary school students. This is despite the provision of guidance and counselling services in schools, hence the need to examine the effectiveness of guidance and counselling in enhancing discipline among secondary school students. The objective of study was to establish the effectiveness of guidance and counselling types employed towards enhancing discipline among secondary school students in Olokurto Division, Narok County, Kenya. Descriptive survey design was employed in the study and questionnaire used obtain data from respondents. Person centred theory advanced by Carl Rogers guided the study. The study population comprised 861 students, 12 teacher counsellors and 6 deputy principals drawn from the six public secondary schools in the division. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were employed to sample 129 students for the study. Schools, deputy principals and teacher counsellors in the division were purposively sampled. Using test-retest method, the instruments yielded a reliability schools coefficient of r = 0.76, thus accepted for the study. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software version 20.0 and presented in tables, charts, graphs, means, frequencies and percentages. The study established that schools employed individual, peer and group types to counsel students but effectiveness had not been attained due to lack of counselling knowledge, skills and techniques due to the low training levels of teacher counsellors. Findings and recommendations of this study, if implemented will be useful to policy makers in the Ministry of Education Science and Technology, heads of secondary schools, counselling personnel and students through improved application of guidance and counselling types.

The purpose of the study was to examine the role of guidance and counseling in enhancing student discipline in secondary schools in Koibatek district. The study was guided by Alfred Adler (1998) theory of personality, and humanistic theory of Albert Bandura (1995) social learning model. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Population of study was 2624students in 23 schools, 23 principals, 23 school counselors and 227 teachers. Out of those a purposive sampling was used to select 8 schools, 8 principals and 8 school counselors. Simple random sampling and stratified Random sampling was used to select 24 teachers and 262 students. The instruments used to collect data for the study were questionnaires and interview schedule. The study reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean scores, summary tables, and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) program version 16. Finding...

Abstract The paper focused on the perception of secondary school teachers on the role of counselling in curbing indiscipline among secondary school students in Sokoto metropolix, it discusses the concepts of indiscipline, forms of indiscipline and roles of counsellors in curbing indiscipline among students, three (3) research questions were raised and answered the study employed a descriptive survey design, with teachers in Sokoto state as population, two hundred (200) respondents were selected as the sample with (150) public secondary school teacher (25) private secondary school teachers and (25) federal government secondary schools teachers. A researcher design questionnaire was used in collecting data which consist of four (4) part, with four point likert scale of strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree as the score value, mean and percentages was used as statistics for data analysis with 2.50 as the standard means, the study revealed that there are counsellors and counselling services in most of the secondary schools in Sokoto metropolis, it also revealed that counsellors plays a significant role in curbing the menace of indiscipline in schools and secondary school teachers are of the belief that counsellors should be assigned as class and house master in schools, responsible for students discipline as well as chair the examination monitoring committees, some recommendations were made to include school authority should see the role of counsellors and counselling services as helping partners by reducing the over loaded work assigned to him in school.

There have been efforts aimed at solving student behaviour problems in secondary schools in Kenya. However, this has realized very little achievement. The current study investigated the effectiveness of guidance and counseling in the management of student behaviour in secondary schools in Kenya. The study was informed by assertive discipline model. Mixed method approach with concurrent triangulation design was used for the study. The population of the study was composed of 431 teachers 40 heads of guidance and counseling and 40 Deputy Principals. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select teachers, deputy principals and heads of guidance and counseling. Krejcie and Morgan sample size determination table was used in the study to determine a sample size of 28 deputy principals, 28 heads of guidance and counseling and 196 teachers. Data was collected using questionnaires, interview schedules and document analysis guides. Reliability was ascertained through split half metho...

The purpose of the study was to assess counseling services on management of students discipline in secondary schools in Keren Sub-Zone, Anseba Region, Eritrea. The research was anchored on Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura. The study used convergent parallel mixed method research design. Questionnaires and interview guide were used to collect data. A sample of 306 students, 20 teachers, 5 head masters, 5 teacher counselors were used for this study. Systematic sampling, simple random and purposive sampling were used to select schools and the participants. The validity and reliability of the instruments was guaranteed by piloting and Cronbach Alpha technique. Data gathered through questionnaires was processed using descriptive statistical techniques involving frequencies, percentages and means. Results were then presented using tables, pie charts and bar graphs. Data gathered through interview guides was analyzed and presented using quotes, themes and narrative descriptions. The findings of the study show that counseling was minimally used to manage student discipline in secondary schools in Keren subzone. Majority of students, 57.6% and teachers, 75% reported that their schools did not have counselling service.

Guidance and counseling programs have been implemented in Kenyan secondary schools to help students improve their personal, social, and academic skills. The success of these programs, however, has been questioned due to a paucity of studies attempting to clarify this idea, a problem that this study discussed. The aim of this study was to look at the current state and challenges of guidance and counseling. The study's aim was to ascertain the types of services available for implementing guidance and counseling programs, as well as the most common cases of indiscipline among secondary school students. Noise making, theft, property damage, and truancy were found to be the most common forms of indiscipline in schools, according to the report. According to the findings, the schools under investigation have a long way to go in terms of maintaining disciplinary management by supervision and counseling. According to the report, schools can first invite parents, churches, other supporter...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of peer counselling on students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Dagoretti Constituency, Nairobi County. The study was guided by the subsequent objectives: to find out about the influence of peer counselling on students discipline; to investigate students’ attitude towards peer counselling as a tool of discipline; to inquire about the adequacy of time allocated for peer counselling, and; to examine the role of school the administration in supporting peer counselling in public secondary schools in Dagoretti Constituency. The study used a descriptive survey design to collect data and adopted a mixed approach. The study enlisted 216 respondents comprising of 201 students, 12 teachers and 3 school counsellors who were randomly selected. Questionnaires and interview guide were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data and Statistical Programme for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to get descriptive statistics. The study concluded that peer counselling exists in schools though with little emphasis. The factors that contributed to the little emphasis was that, the time for peer counselling was used for extra classes. The study also noted that it is the role of the school administration, in collaboration with school counsellor(s), to ensure students profit from peer counselling as it was shown that it helps them in breaking the classroom routine. It was evident that peer counsellors were not trained in the schools under the study, therefore the schools should plan for the regular training of peer counsellors. The study recommends that the government, through the Ministry of Education (MoE), should put more weight to peer counselling, under the umbrella of school counselling, becomes effectively implemented, while for curriculum developers it is recommendable that, a program for training and empowering professional peer counsellors to be put in place. Teachers are to take a close look at guiding students when counselling their peers. This is to enable the teachers to identify the difficulties peer counsellors might face when counselling fellow students whereas students are to be prudent and seek advice from school counsellors, on issues that might seem complex for them to handle at their level, to avoid misguiding their fellow students. Lastly, the school administration should include peer counselling on the time-table to avoid conflicts of activities.