A study on the guidance needs of secondary school students of Delhi
International Journal of Development Research
A study on the guidance needs of secondary school students of Delhi
Received 08th September, 2017; Received in revised form 22nd October, 2017; Accepted 25th November, 2017; Published online 30th December, 2017
Anviti Rawat. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim of this study is to determine the guidance needs of the secondary school students of Delhi according to their own perspective. The researcher used the self-made questionnaire titled as “Discover Yourself” and applied that on randomly selected school students at secondary level. The percentage analysis was done on the basis of the frequency of the response of the students. The findings of the study were:1)The problems related to educational guidance: stress before exams and parent-teacher pressure for good marks.2) The problems related to social guidance: Peer rivalry in class, isolation in class and majority of the students do not like to interact with the opposite gender.3) The problems related to psychological guidance: Stress due to peer pressure, few students faced bullying in the class.4) 64% of the students feel the need of educational guidance, 56% need psychological guidance and 48% of the students feel the need of social guidance.
