Item 16 which stated that guidance and counselling influences career choice of secondary school students by offering opportunities to students in the area of choice is ranked 19th. This is not supported by the findings of Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara and Pastorelli (2001) who found out that the positive correlation between offering opportunities to students in the area of choice and career development.
Damboyi (2002) stated that, it is better for a researcher to discuss, his/her findings on the basis of each hypothesis. Thus, this section presents the results of each null hypothesis tested. The t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Statistics were adopted to analyse the hypotheses.
Hypothesis one stated that there is no significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basis of sex. The result indicated that the null hypothesis was rejected. This implies that there is a significance difference the expression of secondary school students the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basis of gender. This is in line with the findings of Nielson, on Hellens, Greenhi and Pringle (1999; Nielsen et.al, 1998) who found the relationship between gender and career choices among the secondary school students.
Hypothesis two stated that there is no significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basis of religion. The result indicated that the null hypothesis was accepted. This implies that there is a significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basis of religion. This agrees with the finding of Nielsen et.al (1998) who found a correlation between religion practices and career development.
Hypothesis three stated that there is no significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basis of class level. The result indicated that the null hypothesis was accepted. This implies that there is no significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basis of class level. This agrees with the finding of Okobiah and Okordudu (2004) who found no correlation between class level of students and career choices.
Hypothesis four stated that there is no significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choices on the basics of age. The result indicated that the null hypothesis was accepted. This implies that there is no significant difference in the expression of secondary school students on the influence of guidance and counselling on career choice on the basis of age. This is in line with the finding of Francis (2010) who found no relationship between students’ age and career choices.