Assessment of Early Counseling Technique on Future Education among Public Primary School Pupils in North-Central, Nigeria

This paper examined assessment of Early Counselling Technique on Future Education among Public Primary School Pupils in, North-Central Nigeria. It raised two research questions, two and corresponding null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance to guide the study. Survey Research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of entire public primary school’s pupils during the 2022/2023 academic session in North-Central Nigeria. The sample of the study comprised of 30 pupils who were selected using purposive sampling technique, 5 schools from each State in north central. Questionnaire titled Early Counselling for Future Education (ECFE) was used to collect information from the respondents. The instrument was weighted on four (4) point scale of SD, A, DA SDA. The instrument was validated by 3 experts in the fields of Psychology, and measurement and evaluation from Federal College of Education, Zaria. Simple percentage was used to answer the research questions and t-test was used to analyze the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that there is statistically significant relationship between early counselling and future Education in North-Central, Nigeria. It is also revealed that there is statistically significant relationship between follow up counselling service and future education. It was concluded that early counselling has significant impact on future education and follow-up service has positive influence on future education in North-Central, Nigeria. It was recommended that early counselling for future Education should be encouraged. And also, follow-up service in counselling should be supported by government to revive future Education in north-central, Nigeria. Keywords: Early Counselling Techniques, Future Education and Public-School Pupils.