Academic Values Clarification as a Group Counseling Technique with Low Academic Need Achievement Level Students

In: Academic leadership

Abstract

Need achievement motivation is a hypothetical construct designed to explain inter – individual and intra– individual differences in the orientation, intensity and consistency of achievement behaviour. Schooladministrators, teachers, counseling psychologists and other school workers are particularly interestedin the patterns of academic achievement behaviours of their students. Counselling as an importantservice programme in the school setting has to complement the efforts of other school staff inpromoting good academic behaviours among students. Achievement motivation being regarded asunderlying personality characteristic (Dimmock,2004; Ijaduola,2000) which involves a learnedpredisposition to attain success in competition with an internationalized standard of excellence andnoted by Olatoye (2004)as a critical variable that have important implications for individuals approach,persistence, selection and performance on cognitive tasks, should be of tremendous interest tocounseling psychologists. Research oriented practicum effort s directed towards the establishment ofsolid methodological base for stimulating; developing and strengthening academic achievementmotivation among students are indeed urgently required to give a boost to counseling effectiveness inour educational system.