Guidance in the elementary school : a survey of guidance-related functions performed and preferred by classroom teachers in selected Newfoundland schools

• Main Author: Akman, Noel
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1972
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/7165/; https://research.library.mun.ca/7165/1/Akman_Noel.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/7165/3/Akman_Noel.pdf

Modern primary-elementary educational programs place a major emphasis on the integration of classroom instruction with the delivery of guidance services. In this developmental approach, the classroom teacher is expected not only to concentrate on her pupils' academic performance but also to foster the necessary conditions for their optimal social and emotional development. -- The major objectives of the study were to survey and compare the nature and frequency of the guidance-related functions actually performed by primary-elementary classroom teachers with those which they would ideally like to perform and to examine the implications of the findings as these relate to local conditions and needs. -- The study took place in St. John's Roman Catholic School Board. The total sample consisted of 151 teachers attached to 18 primary-elementary schools of the Board selected by the simple random sample method. -- The research instrument consisted of a "General and Personal Information Sheet" and of an opinionnaire in two parts, identical in content and each comprising 74 statements describing guidance-related activities in the areas of orientation services, vocational information and planning services, record services, group testing services, pupil appraisal services, counseling and adjustment services, referral services and services to parents. The respondents were asked to indicate on a five point continuum the frequency with which they actually performed these activities (Part A), and the frequency with which they would ideally perform them (Part B). -- In each of the eight areas, the actual and ideal ratings for each item were examined and compared in terms of their respective frequency distributions, the mean scores and the standard deviations. The differences between the mean scores for each item were analysed with the differences of means test, using dependent samples with separate variance estimates, and the strength of the relationships was analysed with the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. The ...