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THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR IN SECONDARY

SCHOOLS IN ETSAKO CENTRAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

OF EDO STATE

BY

UMOGBAI REGINA UKPENENE

 CERTIFICATION

I certify that this study was carried out under my supervision.

Awolus, O.S
________________
Project Supervisor Signature and
Date.
 DEDICATION
This work is dedicated to my dearest husband and children, Dan’s

Umogbal family, my mother Juliana Vincent Oshogwemue, my Niece

Ewale and my beloved brother Mr. Raphy Vin’s Oshogwemue.

 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

A good number of people have been most helpful to me during the

course of the research work that I must appreciate.

I therefore express my most sincere gratitude to Mrs. S. Olukayode

Awolusi my project supervisor who found out time to read the scripts,

made corrections and offered very useful suggestions in producing this

work.

I also wish to thank my beloved husband and children, Mr. Dan

Umogbani, Miss. Daniella, Miss Joy and Agatha for their moral and

financial assistance while pursuing this course.

I also wish to thank the co-ordinators and all my lecturers.

I thank my mentor retired Mrs. J.A. Onwunuma for her wonderful

words of encouragement and help.

Finally, I am indebted to my beloved brother, Mr. Raphy Vin’s

Oshogwemue for his moral and financial support led to the successful of

this course.

I wish to thank the Almighty God who gave me life and hope.
 Regina Ukpenene Umagbai

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the role of the school counselor in secondary

schools in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State.
questionnaire was used to elicited response. The researcher found out that
to able the high rate of cultism, truancy, prostitution, teenage deliguancy
and school counselor should be appointed to than the schools.
INTRODUCTION
Counseling involve something more than a situation to an immediate

problem. Tyler (1969), sees counseling in maintaining a personal stability

in view of repeated changes and repeated challenges. Warnath (1965), see

counseling as a conscious effort in an attempt to assist the counseliee in

recognizing the process he is going through, in the learning so that he will

be better able to carry on the process himself in making future decisions.

This is why called it “personalized learning.

Every profession attempts to evolve a unique personality that typifies

the practices in that field. The same could be said of counseling. In the

practice of counseling, it is important to know the person who symbolizes

and epitomizes what transpires in professional counseling relationship.

This is particularly warranted as “counseling” is an everyday word that is

commonly regarded as a non-specialized activity almost all professions. He

fact that counseling is a word coined by professional practitioners of a

specialized skill, means that everyone feels free to use it in any way he

wishes. This single phenomenon has been the basis of the difficult inherent

in the understanding and acceptance of the counselor as a specialized

professional different from the general connotation of the word.

 This notwithstanding, there has evolved in recent times, certain

professional practitioners whose roles and functions are uniquely regarded

as counseling and whose operating personality is designated. “the

counselor” it this person different in any specific respect from the general

populace? The counselor is identified as a unique and professional

individual. The major source of information about the person of the

counselor are the ideas and opinions of the theorist and practitioners, as

well as the various studies which tend to imply that the person known as

the counselor does mere certain characteristics which differentiate him

from the general populace. These characteristics can be divided into three

namely; personal qualities, characteristics of effectiveness, characteristics

by which counselor differ from others.

Williamson (1962), asserted that the counselor philosophy of human

development should show through his behaviour that his efforts at relating

effectively with the student must ensure from his own acceptance of

himself, as the carrying on of his own “independent intellectual life” both

in his own technical field and in the broad literature of human culture.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

 Most human problems arise from life situations and significantly

affect the development of individuals. From the psychological point of

view, problems of adjustment are explained to be the result of the nature of

the psychosexual development of the individual. A successful achievement

of the tasks contributes to the individuals happiness and also to his success

in dealing with later tasks while failure could cause in unhappiness and

result in social disapproval as well as difficulty in the performance of later

tasks. Therefore early counseling will be able to check individual

frustration in life and bring happiness in later years.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

The purpose of this study is to find out the role of the counselor in

secondary schools Etsako West Local Government area of Edo State.

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

- There is in significant difference between cutis and acid delinquency

- There is no significance difference between cultism and financial in

schools

- There is no significant difference between human trafficking and

prostitution reduction through counseling.

 - There is no significant difference between teenage pregnancy and

examination malpractices.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study gives insight to the role of counselor in Etsako west Local

Government area of Edo State. The will base of issues of dropout, cultism,

juvenile delinquency and teenage pregnancy.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study covers the role of counselors in secondary school in

Etsako West Local Government area of Edo state.

LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

There are some limiting factors which influence the researchers

efforts towards developing this project work. The most prevailing being

security challenges which does not allow the researcher to travel to other

local government area of Edo state.

Another factor is finance, this is one of the reason why the study did

not cover wider scope of Nigeria.

 Finally, there is no enough time because there are other pressing

works such as preparation for the final examination.

OPERATION DEFINITION OF TERMS

Role function

School: A place where children go to be educated

Counselor: Somebody who helps another individual to find solution to

his/her problem.

Delinquenc: Criminal behaviour in young people.

 CHAPTER TWO

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Education is the bedrock of development of any nation but

unfortunately, education in Nigeria is generally faced with myriads of

problems. These according to Odia and Omofonmovan (2007), include;

poor funding poor educational infrastructures, poor operatories, inadequate

classroom, desk, chalk board, teaching projectors, computers labraries, and

poor quality of learning environment.

Counseling is seen as a helping relationship between a counselor and

the client. In many different ways, the counselor’s function is to provide

conditions which facilitate change in client behaviour. The value of and

approach of the counselor as well as the choices of the client serve to

define the goals of relationship and impose limitation on it. Regardless of

the theoretical bias of the counselor, most counseling theories stress the

importance of understanding and listening in relationship.

The National Vocational Guidance Association (1949) gave the

counselor characteristics as interest in people, patience, sensitivity to others

attitudes, reactions and emotional stability, objectivity and personal

nativity.

Gesinde, S. A. (1996), defined guidance to as “to direct on a course,

to give instruction to and to manage”. It implies the showing of the way by

someone who is very familiar with the course of the way.

Tylor, (1969), in Gesiude, S.A (1996), defined counseling to

maintain a personal stability in view of repeated changes and repeated

challenges. Warmth (1965) sees counseling as a conscious way the

counselor attempts to assist the counselee in recognizing the process he is

going through in the learning so as that he will be better able to carry in the

process himself in making future decisions.

Every profession attempts to evolve a unique personality that typifies

the practice of in that field. The same could be said of counseling. In

practice, it is important to know the person who symbolizes and epitomizes

what transpires in professional counseling relationship.

Hassan I. (1996), in Gesinde, S.A. (1996), said the fact that

counseling is a word that is a part of our common language, not a term

specifically wined by professional practitioners feels free to use it in any

way he wishes.

THE COUNSELOR AS A PERSON

If counseling becomes identified as a distinct and unique

professional occupation, then if is likely that the counselor will also be

identified as a unique and professional individual. According to Hassan, T

(1995), the major source of information about the person of the counselor

are the ideas and opinions of the theorists and practitioners as well as the

various studies which tend to imply that the person known as the counselor

does have certain characteristics which differentiate him from the general

populace.

There characteristics can be divided into three; namely; personal

qualities, characteristics of effectiveness and characteristics by which

counselor differ from others.

Williamson (1962) indicated that the counselors philosophy of

human development should show through his behaviour, that this efforts at

relating effectively with student mint ensure from his own acceptance of
himself as he is and his behaviour should be such as to be identified as the

carrying on of his own independent intellectual life.

Hamson and Panlson (1950), if a counselor must be effective, he or

she must process the following characteristics; understanding, sympathetic

attitude, friendliness, sense of humour, stability, patience, objectivity,

neatness calmness, broadmindedness, and social intelligence.

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING PREVENTIVE APPROACHES

TO JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Institualization is the most severe form of treatment for juvenile

offenders. The child is incarcerated in a serve facility and desired freedom

to come and go in the community. The institution is responsible for the

child’s counseling, education, recreation, room and broad and the daily

activities.

Other strategies for minimizing delinquency among youth include;

parent adolescent-counselor interaction. Dobson and Dobson, (1985),

described a series of structured workshops for adolescent designed to

provide information about the adolescent and he world as work. Such

workshops were aimed at bringing parents and their adolescent children

together for education or therapy.

Peer Cluster programme: peer group as a powerful institution and if

properly organized by the counselor could serve as a useful peer

intervention programme. According to Adegoke (1998), peer intervention

programme can be as simple as the “Just Say No” campaign. It can just be

“Say No” to drug abuse, illicit affairs, imligamism, cultism and other

socially acceptable behaviour exhibited by youths and other adolescents.

Recreational intervention programe in adolescence, many personal

behaviours contribute inadequate or irregular participation in sports and

exercise. Sports as an element of physical and maintain development can

be organized as part of youth and adolescent programmes to promote

responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good health.

Youth exchange decision- making forum; Hemming (1960),

explained that a youth forum can be organized by the counselor inviting

youths from other schools for the purpose of assisting them to develop

rational thinking skills and critical faculties in order to make informed

decisions.
 Information based programmes; Hurrelmann, (1990) described

adolescent as a period of experimentation , exploration and risk –taking.

However, for the fact that risk-taking behaviours are common to youth

culture does not excuse those behaviours nor does not reduce the danger

that those behaviours present.

Human trafficking is the recruitment or transfer of persons, by force,

abduction for exploitation. It is a human rights abuse. It treats human

beings as commodities that can be bought, sold, damaged or destroyed.

They are used for prostitution, domestics services, beginning and work in

factories or plantations. They are often sexually abused, raped, beaten

tortured, exposed to hazardous working conditions.

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING AND SUSTAINING HUMAN

TRAFFICKING

In united Nations policy implementation efforts against human

trafficking and prostitution (2004) enumerated the following factors that

sustain and encourage human trafficking, poverty, weak and social

economic structures, lack of employments, lack of education and human

rights awareness by the victims and an established culture of violence

including gender-based violence and armed conflict.

EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN SCHOOLS

The problem of examination malpractices is not new to academic

institutions. During general Buharis military regime in Nigeria (1985 -

1985), examination malpractice reached such alarming proportion that he

had to institute a decree to jail anyone found cheating for others without the

option of fire.

CAUSES OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE

 The fear of failure and disappointment. Human beings lots failure,

but the psychological impact in students seems more. Many of them

are dependent on someone’s sponsorship. That someone could be a

parent with message, income, organization, a friend or a good

“Samaritan: a sister or husband etc. under normal circumstances, the

students are the average types, they may opt to cheat, simply to

impress any of these people as the case may be. In them, the

consequences of cheating is not the issue, what matters is that their

sponsors are happy. If they succeeded once, they would go on from

there until they get caught or even get away with it.

 Loss of academic confidence. Many students fail or cheat not

because they could study and pass, but because they forget what they
 have come to do and allow themselves to be carried away by such

activities as politicking for students unionism, religious fanaticism

and other distractive activities. They report to class at their own

convenience and usually when examinations are approaching. Those

among them that are still sure of their capacities would sweat and

pass. But some others, seeing the volume of work to catch up with

would simply get scared and opt for cheating. Sand Sambo (2009),

opined that a poorly planned and organized syllabus can also be a

cause of examination malpractice. Topics should sequentially be

arranged in a systematic way, for example, if a topic that is supposed

to be taught in the third week of a subject matter, some aims and

objectives maybe lost, leaving students conformed and unsure of

themselves.

 Relating to people with classified examination information: it is

observed that even some distinction – conscious students do cheat.

They may not bring offensive materials to the class, but they form

the bulk of those who look for loopholes to get advance information,

then prepare themselves well ahead of time and coming just an hour

out of the three hour examination time allowed. By virtue of their

 brilliance, they can relate to anyone and get out the necessary

information needed.

Counseling strategies for minimizing examination malpractices is

schools. Among the principal attributes advanced by guidance and

counseling experts is that “it is continuous educational process for helping

the individual to recognized his capacities, worth and maintain his dignity”

its aim is not to be coercive, compelled, punished, or intimidated, but to

explain why things happens in this case, and find ways to stop them in this

by restoring academic self-confidence in the students. Once their

confidence is restored, discipline will follow.

THE DROP OUT SYNDROME

Many children enter schools with the aim of obtaining school

certificates that would take them to higher institution or at least earn a

living. But early marriage, grade failures, inability to get along with

teachers, dislike of social relationships in the school, and a belief that

school course work related to individual need are some of the factors that

make school children a dropout. Attempts to made in this book to define

the term “dropout” has invariably home to mean many things and therefore

the term is defined differently by researchers and writers in the field.

Austin (1975_ said, the main definitional problem is the temporariness of

any classification of a students as a “dropout because any former student

can, in theory, go back to school at sometime in the future and complete the

course. Having studied higher college and university students Astin

developed the following terms dropout, stop out and persisters.

Guidance and counseling strategies in minimizing dropouts in

schools.

The need for guidance and counseling in Nigeria schools, colleges

and universities cannot be overemphasized, many writers have stressed the

need for guidance services in our schools. Guidance services in their

totality are meant to serve the students in particular, the administrators,

teachers, the parents and the community at large. Furthermore the advent of

western education has brought about many repaid changes in the Nigerian

society loading to various social economic, political and psychological

problems. Adugbe; 1975. Denga; 1982, Bello, 1976 confirmed that

students have a high degree of unrealistic aspirations without actually

knowing the implications of their higher aspirations. This shows that the

students cannot make realistic plans and decisions without the assistance of

experts. It is therefore important that a systematic guidance programme

becomes an integral part of the school curriculum. In the study of Nigerian

adolescent’s academic and occupational aspiration, Abiri (1977) found out

that the pupils were largely unrealistic in their academic and occupational

aspirations. Hence some of them dropped out from the schools because

they were not able to complete their studies.

Guidance both as a concept and as a service focuses upon the youth

and their future. Therefore, it is the study of the guidance personal to make

sure that the students teachers, and parents understand the various phases of

the individuals development and their impact upon growth, adjustment, and

decision-making process. Deenga, (1983) their ability levels and also that

there was a significant difference between the student’s aptitudes, abilities

and career choices. These could be supported by Akintade (1977) who

found out that the students in his studies had high professional and

vocational aspirations but with little or no relationship with their choice of

subjects.

TEENAGE PREGNANCY

Teenage pregnancy refers to pregnancies which occur when the girl

is below the age of eighteen (18) years in most cases, they are unwanted

and out of wedlock.

 Teenage pregnancies occur as a result of inadequate information

about reproductive health and interception and the risk of pregnancy. It can

also occur within the context of early marriage.

Teenage pregnancy has been found to make negative long-lasting

health, social and economic consequences on the life of the adolescent.

Teenage mothers face the risk of increased health problem both for

themselves and the babies. Problems to the babies include pre-maturity,

stillbirth and low birth weights. Early child bearing may result in Vesico-

vagina fistula (VVF) and recto-vaginal fistula (RVF). This is a hole caused

by weekering of the wall between the bladder/rectum and the vagina,

leading to uncontrolled leakage of urine or faces.

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO TEENAGE

Pregnancy are as follows;

 Declaiming age of menarche

 Early sexual debut

 Early Marriage

 Pressure to have children

 Sexual coercion and rape

  Socio-economic factors e.g economic hardship

 Lack of access to reproductive health information and services

 Sexual experimentation

 Unprotected sexual intercourse

 Sexual exploitation of girls by older man for financial gains

 Sexual exploitation of girls by male relatives/acquaintances

 Risky behaviour e.g substance use and alcohol abuse.

IMPLICATIONS FOR GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

Guidance and counseling in schools is justifiable if only on account

of the over sexed children with whom children of normal and under

developed sexual appetites have to mix. Other children can only be

protected against the influence of the over sexual youths by wholesome sex

information. The over sexual youths are often the ones who start circles,

groups and cliques of sex talk or even sexual activity among their

classmates.

Guidance have should be strong inspiring and realistic. Threats of

venereal disease or illegitimate pregnancies serve no useful purpose. The

most constructive approach that maybe employed in skillful and

clearheaded guidance is to help these youths to see the difference between

the physical expressive of beautiful, mutually respectful elevating, deep

and sincere union and mere cheap promiscuous and degenerating

gratification of physical tension.

One approach to the sex guidance of the oversexed youth maybe to

paint a picture of a most pathetic and degenerate person who has played

around with the physical aspect of sex for so long that he has worked

himself into a state where orgasm becomes painful and unrealizable and

where physical and psychological preoccupation with sex has made a

nervous wreck of him.

The schools are;

 Fugar mixed secondary school, fugar

 Ogbona mixed secondary schoosl, Ogbona

 Experi corammar school, Ekperi

 St. John Boys Model School, Fugar

 Central college, Ogochi

 CHAPTER THREE

This chapter presents procedure and methods employed in collection

of data in their study; this chapter also focuses in the following.

a. Research design

b. Population of the study

c. Sample and sampling techniques

d. Research instruments

e. Validity of the instrument

f. Reliability of the instrument

g. Method of data collection

h. Method of data analysis

RESEARCH DESIGN

The research design for this study is descriptive survey. It is chosen

because it helps in describing, analysis and interpreting the condition that

exist in the study. It also provides acceptable data interpretation and

generalization process.

This study investigate the role of the school counselor in secondary

schools in Etsako Central Local Government areas of Edo State.

POPULATION

The target population is one hundred students from five selected

senior secondary schools in Etsako Central Local Government the schools

are

SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES

In this study, the researcher used purposive simple random sampling

techniques for data collection. Since the researcher cannot cover the entire

population of the study area. One hundred students was selected from five

schools in senior secondary schools. Twenty students from each school.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS

The main research instrument used for this study is the self

structured questionnaires on the role of school counselor in secondary

schools. The questionnaire was set to elicit. Response from the students

about their age, class and their view about the functions of the school

counselors.

VALIDITY OF THE INSTRUMENT

 The self-structured questionnaires was given to the supervisor and

other lecturers for face and content validity. The comments, criticisms and

observations of researcher’s supervisor assisted in preparing the final draft

of the instrument used for the study.

RELIABILITY OF THE STUDY

The questionnaire were given to the scholars in senior secondary

schools. The questionnaires were collected the same day they were given to

ensure reliability.

The schools are

- Fugar Mixed Secondary School, Fugar

- Ogbona Mixed Secondary School, Ogbona

- Ekperi Grammar School, Ekperi

- St. John Boys Model School, Fugar

- Central College, Ogochi

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

The researcher administered the questionnaires to the respondents.

Some teachers were used as research assistants so as to have a high rate of

response and for the questionnaire to be well answered. The response were

drawn from five selected secondary schools.

METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS

The data collected in respect of the various research items were

subjected to statistical analysis to test the six null hypothesis postulated.

T. Test statistical analysis was employed at 0.05 level of significance

to test the research hypothesis in finding possible difference in the

influence of the minimizing trafficking teenage pregnancy, drop out and

high rate of examination malpractices.

 CHAPTER FOUR

This chapter presents the results of the data generated and analyzed.

The findings are discussed in line with the stated hypothesis.

TABLE 1: DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECTS USED

S/N NAME OF NO O MALE NO OF TOTAL NO OF

SCHOOL MALE STUDENTS

1. 14 11 25

2. 11 14 25

3. 12 13 25

4. 13 12 25

5. 50 50 100

The twenty (20) items were scored on a five point basis of 5,4,3,2,1

5 - Strongly Agreed

4 - Agreed

3 - Undecided

2 - Disagreed
1 - Strongly Disagree

Respondents are supposed to circle any number from 1- 5, the way it

affects them with all sincerity.

HYPOTHESIS 1

TABLE 2

The first hypothesis stated that, there is no significant difference between

students that were counseled and those one that were not counseled in

minimizing delinquency.

VARIABLE N X S.D D.F T T P

OBSERVED CRITICAL

Counseled 37 14.03 5.84

students

58 2.93 2.00 0.05

Uncounselled 63 12.22 4.14

students

Source: Field Work, 2022

From the above table, the result shows that there is no significant

difference in the truancy rate displaced by the students who recorded

counseled and those one who did not. The hypothesis is therefore rejected

at 0.05 level of significance.

The second hypothesis which states that, there is no significant

difference between cultism and truancy in schools. This hypothesis was

tested with t-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance.

TABLE 3

VARIABLE N X S.D D.F T T P

OBSERVED CRITICAL

Culstim 50 15.7 5.97 56

2.05 2.00 0.05

Truancy 50 13.62 3.74

Source: Field Work, 2022

The result of this study indicated that there is significant difference

between cultism and truancy of students in schools therefore the hypothesis

is rejected at 0.05 level of significant.

The third hypothesis which states that, there is no significant

difference between human trafficking and prostitution reduction through

counseling among students was tested at 0.05 level of signifance.

TABLE 4

VARIABLE N X S.D D.F T T P

OBSERVED CRITICAL

Human 60 18.3 6.55

trafficking

58 2.89 2.00 0.05

Prostitution 40 15.5 3.82

Source: Field Work, 2022

The hypothesis above is rejected at 0.05 level of significance. The

result shows that, there is difference between human trafficking and

prostitution of students that were exposed to counseling. The null

hypothesis is therefore rejected.

The fourth hypothesis stated that, there is no significant difference

between teenage pregnancy and examination malpractices was tested at

0.05 level of significant.

TABLE 5

VARIABLE N X S.D D.F T T P

OBSERVED CRITICAL

Teenage 37 13.45 3.27

pregnancy

58 2.05 2.00 0.05

Exam 63 14.49 6.22

malpractice

Source: Field Work, 2022

The result from the above shows that, this hypothesis was rejected at

0.05 level of significance. It shows that, there is significant different

between teenage pregnancy and examination malpractices.

 CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

This study on the role of school counselor in secondary schools in

Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State has revealed a lot of

problems associated with child delinquency, cultism, truancy, trafficking,

teenage pregnancy and examination malpractices among students.

Counseling intervention is needed in order prevent and check the

rate of cultism, truancy, child delinquency, child trafficking, prostitution,

teenage pregnancy and examination malpractices among the students.

CONCLUSION

This study on the role of the school counselor in secondary schools

in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State shows that there is

high rate of cultism, child delinquency, human trafficking, prostitution,

teenage pregnancy and examination malpractices.

Government should make law in to check the high rate of cultism,

truancy, human trafficking, prostitution and examination malpractice

among students.
 Government should employ counselor for all the schools in the state

in order to give counsel to students in those areas and some other which

was not study under this investigation.

Parents should ensure good upbringing of their children and wards.

Parents are advised to give birth to the number of children they can take

care considering their economic stand.

On the part of the teachers, teachers should be up and doing during

the focus that the students are in the school to ensure that the students

comply with the school rules and regulations.

Students should face their studies and mind the type of friendship

they keep in the school. They should obey school rules and regulations.

The society at large should join hand in condemning cultism,

delinquency, human trafficking, prostitution, teenage pregnancy and

examination malpractices among the students.

RECOMMENDATION

This study, the role of counselor in Etsako Central Local

Government of Edo State, Nigeria took cognizance on one Local

GOvernmnet of the state.

 The researcher could not use many Local Government Areas or

States in Nigeria due to finance and time factor.

It is therefore recommended that, more Local Government Areas and

States could be studied by other researchers in Nigeria. Also more

population of the students could be used.

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 APPENDIX

UNIVERISTY OF IBADAN CONSULTANCY SERVICES IN

CONJUNCTION WITH PIONEER INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT AND VOCATIONAL STUDIES, AUCHI STUDY
CENTRE

Dear Respondent,

This questionnaire is designed to obtain instruction on the role of the

School Counselor in Secondary Schools in Etsako Central Local
Government Area of Edo State.

Your response will be kept confidential as a result you are not

required to write your name on the questionnaire.

Yours faithfully,
 SECTION A

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

SEX: MALE [ ] FEMALE [ ]

AGE: _____________________

CLASS: ___________________

SCHOOL: __________________

SECTION B

NOTE THAT 5 = STRONGLY AGREED

4 = AGREED

3 = NEUTRAL

2 = DISAGREED

1 = STRONGLY DISAGREED

Tick any number from 1 – 5 the way it affect you.

S/N 5 4 3 2 1

1. Sometimes i disobeyed school rules and regulations

2. I admire some members of cultist around me

3. School rules and regulation are met for junior

students

4. Cultism activities do not affect me

5. I always like to go to school early

6. I always present in the school assembly everyday

7. The rate of human trafficking is high these days

8. Human trafficking is evil

9. My relative has been affected by human trafficking

10. Prostitution is new in our environment

11. People engaging in prostitution are very wealthy

12. Human trafficking reduces the image of a country

13. Prostitution increase sickness among girls

14. Government should make law against prostitution

15. Government should make law against human

trafficking

16. Teenage pregnancy is common these days

17. Examination malpractices is an educational

epidemics
18. Teenage pregnancy reduces the changes of the

female students to education

19. Examination malpractices have negative effects on

the economy

20. Stake holder sin education should stop examination

malpratices