THE PERFORMANCE OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN YABA LAGOS

The function of vocational guidance services in primary schools in Yaba Local Government Area depends on its application. Guidance is the process whereby an individual is helped to understand himself. The problem in guidance services is that of the complexity of guidance services, equipment and lack of adequate knowledge in the handling of testing instruments in one hand and none availability of these instruments for most students in the other hand. Teacher education programme can remedy any negative effect. The design for this study is a survey design while the population for the study was 47 subject teachers. The teachers were randomly selected to make the required respondents. The research instrument was subjected to face validity by experienced educationist. To ensure the reliability of the instrument a pre-test of the items was carried out. The research questions cover the counselors, students and services. Questionnaire items were tested to collect the data for analysis. One of the major findings is that guidance programme can cause major changes in the pupils if properly implemented. One of the recommendations is that counselors should be provided with up-to-date information on career guidance services.