The influence of counselling on academic performance of undergraduate students

Abstract

For undergraduate students, education plays an important role in their development of skills such as cognitive skills and abilities. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of the counseling experiences of undergraduates on their academic performance. The t-test and ANOVA statistics were used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 alpha level of significance. The data collected with the help of the research questionnaire was analyzed with the help of the Statistical Package. This study will make use of data collection in the form of questionnaire administration to determine how counseling has influenced the students’ academic performance. The result of the study showed that 181 participants out of the 262 said that they had experienced counseling before, 159 of them mentioned that their academic performance improved after counseling. The outcome of the study also showed that most of the participants only go for counseling yearly.

Keywords

• Counselling
• Education
• Guidance
• Undergraduate students
• Academic performance