Academic Adjustment Problems and Helpfulness of Supervision, Guidance and Counseling Services among Undergraduate Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to find the academic adjustment problems faced by undergraduate students; to determine the helpfulness of guidance and counseling services with students‟ academic adjustment problems; and to interview lecturers on how they do provide supervision and guidance to help undergraduate students who challenged academic adjustment problems. This study was done at Rajamagala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Tani Province, Thailand by using Mooney Problem Checklist, College Form and applying the Guidance and Counseling Services. For this study sample was 240 randomly selected undergraduate students from eight difference faculties and for qualitative study of procedures for supervision, guidance and counseling six lecturers (3 males and 3 females) were interviewed. This study observed that as per Mooney (1950)'s Problem Check List majority of students had experience one or the other type of problem on this ten item scale. Maximum problem was found ' Not know how to study effectively' in 92.5%, 219 (91.25%) students easily distracted from their schools‟ work, 206 (85.83%) students were not planning their schools‟ work ahead, 197 (82.08%) students were having a poor background for some subjects, 190 (79.17%) students were inadequate high school training, 167 (69.58%) students were forgetting things they have earned in school,166 (69.17%) students were getting low grades, 163 (67.92%) students were not spending enough time in study, 156 (65.00%) students were not getting studied done on time and153 (63.75%) of them were unable to concentrate well. 92.92% students agreed with the helpfulness of guidance and counseling services. On further analysis on Chi-square test significantly (p<0.001) higher proportion of students were agreed on helpfulness of counselling and guidance on ever scale studied. Six lecturers in this study claimed that they provided the responsibilities for the roles of supervision and supporting students with guidance and counseling services when they faced academic adjustment problems.
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Introduction
Academic adjustment is included to life satisfaction, academic performance and psychosocial emotional balance among students. Academic adjustment related to another terms of adjustment such as home/family adjustment, health adjustment, social adjustment, and emotional adjustment. Undergraduate students adjusted their academic problems by adapting the experiment with new found freedom and responsibilities. 1
Academic adjustment problems were found among students who were being away from home, family and friends for the first time and feeling homesickness.
Conclusion
Present study concludes that 92.5% of students have one and other adjustment problem and 92.92% students agreed with the helpfulness of guidance and counseling services. In addition, the findings of interviews’ results found that lecturers provided supervision and guidance and counseling services to undergraduate students who faced academic adjustment problems.
There are practical recommendations are given to the four main sectors who are involved with undergraduate students as follows:-
Government should set up guidance and counseling cell to help students on academic adjustment problems (Topu &Aranep, 2014)11 .
University should decide to promote counseling and guidance services to students. for academic adjustment and coping abilities into all courses of the study. All people in educational faculty must have and provide services of guidance and counseling to support academic adjustment of students (Godelek & Kayar, 2012) 12 .
Counselors/Lecturers should be needed to promote interpersonal awareness of counseling students, helped students in navigating challenging achievement-oriented and these tasks may be an important in the academic adjustment problems (Klibert, et al, 2014)13 .
Parents might be used to improve the efficiency of parent training in guidance and counseling services to promote parent's awareness about the need of their child and to support their academic adjustment (Sohrabi, Mohamadadi, and Aghdam, 2013) 10