Abstract

This study examined the Effect of Group Counselling on Students’ note taking and concentration in Junior Secondary Schools in Nasarawa South, Nasarawa State. Quasi experimental, pre-test, post-test design was adopted for the study, which involved Junior Secondary School students. 50 students comprising of 25 JSS 3 students were assigned to experimental groups and 25 JSS 3 students assigned to the control group as well, using random sampling technique. A standardized 18-item open ended questions with 8 sections developed by Bakare (1977) was adopted and 4 sections extracted to measure study habits of concentration and note-taking in junior secondary schools in Nasarawa South, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The results from the hypotheses show a significant effect between group counselling and study habits (i.e concentration and note taking) among students. Those students who were well counselled on their concentration and note-taking skills performed excellently well in their academics. The study recommended that the Government should include Study habits as a topic in the social studies curriculum of the primary and junior secondary schools in the country. And every primary and secondary school in Nigeria should have a functional Guidance and Counselling Department, to guide the pupils and students in their cognitive, affective and psycho-motive domains; the pupils and students all all-around development to enable them fit in properly in the society thereafter.