CHAPER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Man in search of comfort
ability struggle to meet up with good career and for this to be achieved, it
has to be started as early as possible. Form time man is born, he is been
studied to know what likely he will be able to do as he grows up. This has to
do with his natural behavior and mental exercise display. This continues in
family parents and other relaxation acting as counselling unit until the child
goes in to school. In school the teacher takes over the counselling, it is a continuous exercise until one finds his
feet, then he can continues from there and equally be in a position to guide
and counsel others.
According to Harthony (1990) stated that
communication system carries a mixture of voice, data and image signals that
are used effectively as intelligent rods in communication system acting as
switches, multiplexes, demultiplexens protocol converters. Olorunsola and Ekong
(2006) emphasized that the importance of computers in the exchange of
electronic mail (e-mail) with other users, transfer of public
domain software from another computer into another
disk so that anybody can run the programme on the computer and hold conference
with a number of other users. This is one of the major applications of
computers in communication. The
introduction of office automation and information technology has assisted to
strengthen information and service delivery. According to Bhuiyan (2011) major
computerization and infrastructure development in the public sector in
Bangladesh has been taking place to replace internal manual work processes by
ICT-based automation. Similarly, the impact of computer education on the
efficiency of civil services Nigeria cannot be over-emphasized. The civil
servants need to be educated in ICT, so that the use of typewriters, filling of
information on papers in cabinets, keeping of documents and letters in files
are modernized through automotion.
The
stages where much work is carried out on counselling is in secondary schools
.This is a stage when a child is grown to be able to understand maturely and
when the child’s attitude is fully studied in line with academic performance .
In all secondary school across the
country , there exist a guidance and counsellor office where people
knowledgeable in the area of psychology
are employed in order to help advise the
younger ones in school which
way forward to their future career . There people through class
visitation, Observing students during recreation and calling on them at
intervals for questioning, came to know the students betters and be able to guide and counsel them in their
future career probably in university or in any
other area of endeavor.
The job of counselling in
secondary school is not an easy job to be taking into consideration the number
students involved with respect to the number of staff involved. It is always
very difficult to handle all the students and to remember everything about the
students. This Counseling exercise needs
a sophisticated system for the
operation of counselling alliterates some of the problem associated with
exercise.
Personal behaviour and
area of interest, they keep very close marks with the students to make sure
that no stone is left unturned. This aspect of ones life is taken very
seriously in schools because that is mainly the reason people go to school for
the academics tests and examination only. The battle of career choice is handed
over to individual when he/she attain a stage of being able to duct for himself
what he/she really wants and how best possible to get such height. The person
can steer the wheels directly to his destination or deviate in the other way
due to carelessness or youthful exuberance; but the end justifies the means.
Also, sometime due to laxity and incapability on the side of the career
guidance and counsellor in schools, most of the students are led astray. This
is mainly due to human approach towards the implementation the exercise which
can be based at anytime. In his own recommendation, Hook advised the
computerization of the career guidance department for effectives and reliable
react on the department activities
Holyfield (1997) argues
that a good career in life, makes a lot of meaningful process in life. He made
this assertion that what without comfort and where is comfort without a good
career; In his own views, it takes a long and rough way to arrive and clinch a
good career but when one finally gets to it, life comes to be what
nature made it be, life
remains unstable like a wondering man in the career is achieved through
carefulness and hard work, desire of sentiments and other side effects which
can thwart the smooth direction of ones futures. Holly field (1997) made it clear and that life is associated
with a good career and that
such a career is what can give
full meaning of life a priceless gift of nature.
Statistics shows that people who find good
career are enjoying high standard of living and while the people who find good
career are enjoying, the unlucky ones cry
of frustration and negatives social factors that limits life.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The number of
students involved in schools counselling
are very enormous and few staff in
counselling can not handle the job effectively.
It is always very easy to
forget information about students and to reach all the students, contributes
and problems.
Another major problem of
the counselling is information storage. The made of storage of information
observed from the students in different forms is not reliable and this makes
the counselling to apply guess work in trying to direct students in their
future career work.
This is a very big delay
in taking decision on students concerning their future career. This is also
because referencing to students information for decision making take s a very
long time.
1.2 AIM S /OBJECTIVES
The primary aim of this
projects work is to provide lasting solution to the problem affecting
counselling exercise in secondary schools.
The following objectives
below are the study
-To make the criteria and
process involved in the exercise of counselling very easy and flexible
- To
carefully take care of the burden, the staff faces in trying to do the work of
counselling manually.
-To provide adequate
enabling environment for counselling on student to give them better career
perspective
-To maintain adequate
observed information on students for future reference and quick decision
taking.
1.3 PURPOSE OF STUDY
The purpose of this
project work is to probe into the developing a counselling software for schools
with a view of creating awareness of the use computer in counselling with due
consideration of this new technology advancement.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE
OF STUDY
This study is of numerous
important to the guidance and counsellor department and the society in general.
It will help the counsellor to always direct the students in their best career
area with happiness because it will be result oriented.
It will help to eliminate
the word frustration among the people which is very common in the society.
1.5 SCOPE/ DELIMITATION OF THE
STUDY
The study covers the design and implementation
of computerized career choice counselling system in secondary schools.
1.6 CONSTRAINTS
/ LIMITATION
On the course of this
project work, time and finance posed a major obstacle to the researcher. This
is because the study conceded with the examination period and semester was too
short
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
COUNSELLING: To give advise to another
SOCIETY : this is an
organized group of people living together and having things together
AUTHOMATIC : Work in faster rate without much human direction
PROMPT: To motivate an action
RECREATION : Time that are
not invested in working , time used for relaxing
ALLEVIATE : To reduce or
less something
SOPHISTICATED : Showing great experience
SYSTEM: A group of thing or parts working together to
achieve a purpose
PSYCHOLOGY: The study of
mind and it’s function
DATA: this is a raw and unprocessed facts used in
deciding or discussing something
RECORD: to write down event so that it can be remember
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COMPUTER : This is an electronic device that accept raw
facts as data and processes it to give useful information.
INFORMATION: this is a fact that has been processed.