Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to examine the role of guidance and counseling in enhancing student discipline in
secondary schools in Koibatek district. The study was guided by Alfred Adler (1998) theory of personality, and
humanistic theory of Albert Bandura (1995) social learning model. The study adopted a descriptive survey
research design. Population of study was 2624students in 23 schools, 23 principals, 23 school counselors and
227 teachers. Out of those a purposive sampling was used to select 8 schools, 8 principals and 8 school
counselors. Simple random sampling and stratified Random sampling was used to select 24 teachers and 262
students. The instruments used to collect data for the study were questionnaires and interview schedule. The
study reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as
frequencies, percentages, mean scores, summary tables, and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS)
program version 16. Findings indicated that teachers employ dynamic interactions of a group of students
approach. Further, computer facilities were inadequate in guidance and counseling. From the findings, guidance
and counseling has improved discipline and academic performance. There is enough proofing that lack of
guidance and counseling to students leads to indiscipline in schools. However, there is lack of legal and policy
framework, lack of trained teacher counselor and too much workload for teachers hence making it difficult for
guidance and counseling to succeed in promoting student discipline. There is need to embrace dialogue in
resolution of conflict. This can be enhanced through building a strong relationship between the students,
counselors, teachers and administrators to an extent that they are free to speak out issueless the affect both
parties.
