A study of the results in terms of academic behaviors, of a special program in guidance

Abstract

The study was concerned with the problem of finding out whether a specific counseling treatment condition embodied in a Special Program in guidance would induce significantly greater achievement behavior among a section of senior high school students.

The Special Program followed in this study aimed to improve: (1) the students’ motivation to achieve; (2) their study habits and attitudes; (3) their grades in Physics, History, Trigonometry, Literature, and English Composition, and (4) their school attendance.

The students under study were the middle section of the 1975-1976 senior class of Central Philippine University High School. The instrument used to measure motivation of the subjects for study was the Motivation Scale adapted by Elma Herradura from Jack Frymier.

The instrument to measure the subjects’ study habits and attitudes was the standardized inventory, the Study Habits and Attitudes Inventory by William F. Brown and Wayne Holtzman.