EDUCATION EVALUATION & COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY

The study investigated the Differential Effectiveness of Cognitive Restructuring
Therapy (CRT), Social Skills Training (SST) and Assertiveness Training (AT) Counselling
Techniques in Handling Shyness using Students in Public Junior Secondary Schools in Egor
Local Government Area of Edo State. The study determined the general level of shyness as
well as among male and female students in junior secondary schools in Egor Local Government
Area of Edo State. The study also determined if sex influenced the efficacies of the three
counselling therapies in the handling of shyness among students in junior secondary schools in
Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. To address the problem of the study, nine research
questions were raised and seven of them were formulated into seven corresponding hypotheses
and tested at 0.05 level of significance.
The target population of the study consisted of thirty thousand, five hundred and
seventy-four (30,574) students enrolled in the 2022/2023 academic session in the Public Mixed
Junior Secondary Schools Two (JSS2) in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The
sample size comprised of two hundred (200) junior secondary school students which were
selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. Quasi experimental research design which
involved non-equivalent pre-test-post-test design was adopted for the study which consisted of
three experimental groups. The instrument used for pre-test and post-test was the questionnaire
titled; Shyness Inventory (SI). The validity of the instrument was ascertained by three experts
the researcher’s two supervisors and one test expert in the Department of Educational
Evaluation and Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Benin-City.
The instrument was administered on thirty students outside the sample of the study to
determine the reliability of the instrument. Cronbach Alpha statistics was used to obtain a
reliability coefficient of 0.85. The Shyness Inventory (SI) was used to identify the shy students

who took part in the study. The treatment intervention lasted for a period of six weeks of two
sessions weekly lasting for forty-five (45) minutes per session. The data collected were
analysed using descriptive statistics of frequencies, means and standard deviation and
inferential statistics of paired sample t-test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA).
The findings of the study showed that the level of shyness among students in Junior
Secondary Schools in Edo State was high. That SST was most effective followed by AT and
CRT was least effective in handling shyness among students in junior secondary schools in
Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Also, there was no significant interaction effect of
treatment by sex of the participants. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others
that, counsellors and counselling psychologists should, therefore, utilize the three counselling
therapies in handling shyness among secondary school students.

This study is conducted to investigate the factors associated with the teaching and learning of Computer Science in Senior Secondary School in Oredo local government of Edo state. Based on the research, questionnaire was designed was designed for the study. One hundred copies of the questionnaire were administered on the analysis of the data, the following findings were discovered. The study revealed that there are some problems facing the teaching and learning of computer science such as inadequate professionally trained computer teachers, inadequate funding, negative attitudes of teachers towards students, etc. Also to the extent to which lack of infrastructural facilities and teaching aids affect the effective teaching and learning of computer science in senior secondary school was discussed in the cause of the study. Also it was discovered that inadequate of computer system could lead to lack of practical which happen to lack of effective teaching and learning of computer science in Senior Secondary School.