Assessment of the Rationality of Senior High School students’ Choices of Academic Programmes in Kwabre East District of Ghana
Assessment of the Rationality of Senior High School students’ Choices of Academic Programmes in Kwabre East District of Ghana
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2014
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Owusu-Osei, Benedict
Oteng Akyina, Kwadwo
Oduro-Okyireh, George
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Journal of Education and Practice
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The study sought to find out whether Senior High School students in Kwabre East District make rational choices
of academic programmes in school. The population of the study was all students in the six Senior High Schools
in Kwabre East District. However, the Form 3 students were purposively sampled for the study. Stratified
random sampling technique with proportional allocation was used to sample 331 Form 3 students from the
various programmes in each school for the study. A self-made questionnaire was used to gather data from the
331 respondents. A total of 320 copies of the questionnaire were obtained from the respondents. Statistical
Product for Service Solutions was used to analyze the data. Frequencies and percentages were analyzed to
answer all the research questions.It was found out that generally Senior High School students in Kwabre East
District make rational choices of their programmes of study. This is because most of them assessed their
strengths and weaknesses and sought information on their programmes before choosing them. Again, most of
them chose their programmes based on their abilities or interests. However, few of them sought counselling from
qualified counsellors before choosing their programmes. It was recommended that school counsellors should
reinforce students’ rational programme choice behaviour by intensifying counselling in schools so that students
will continue to make rational choices of programmes in school.
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Oduro-Okyireh, K. O. A. G., & Osei-Owusu, B. (2014). Assessment of the Rationality of Senior High School students’ Choices of Academic Programmes in Kwabre East District of Ghana. Assessment, 5(28), 230-242.