The Efficacy of Group Counselling on the Study Habit Patterns of Adult Sandwich Students in a Nigerian University

Abstract

This study investigated the efficacy of group counselling on the study habit patterns of adult students on Sandwich/Part-time programme in the Faculty of Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. A simple pre-test and post-test experimental research design was used on a sample of 60 adult students who were randomly selected from a group of identified 99 students with deficient study habit patterns. The study Skill and Study Habits Inventory (SSHI) developed by Adedipe (1998) was used for pre-test and post-test of both the experimental and control groups. The experimental group was exposed to training on the five sub-sections of the SSHI while the control group received placebo training within the same period of the experiment. The data collected were subjected to analysis using mean, Standard Deviation and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results indicated that the experimental group showed significant improvement in their study skills patterns as opposed to the control group. That is, group counselling is effective in bringing about an improved study habit among adult students. Based on this result, it was recommended that study skills should be taught in schools by school counsellors.



Nigerian Journal of Clinical and Counselling Psychology Vol.8(1) 2002: 15-24