Importance of Guidance and Counselling in the School Educational System: An Overview

Over time the term counseling has been used and studied from different approaches and defined in different ways according to the researches and the field of study. As a huge concept it covers three main areas: personal, educational and vocational area, that’s for we have different definitions about counseling. In educational level for long time it have been confusion about the role and importance of school counseling, where for some researches it was defined and studied as part of school Guidance program and addressed to other school staff, minimizing the role of counselor. In other hand other approaches tend to use and understand the schoolcounseling as synonymous for Guidance meanwhile others viewed as profession that is part of psychological and psychotherapeutic nature. Now day’s the counseling as profession is more emphases and school counseling takes its place in all educational level. Today school counseling is a need and necessary in every level of education taking in consideration the role and importance that has on educational process and school program overall. Keywords: Counseling, School Counseling, School Counselor, Role of School Counselor

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1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019) di Atlantis Press

Quality education is one that integrates several fields of activity in synergy namely administrative, instructional and guidance and counseling. This research aimed to transform the knowledge into the education system integrally. The type of research used is field research with a quantitative approach. In this research, there were two variables, namely Guidance and Counseling as independent variables, and student achievement as a dependent variable. The researcher conducted a study in MTs Negeri I Bojonegoro and the researchers selected grade 7 students as population, and assigned 10% of them as samples. Techniques in sampling in the form of random sampling. The source of this research data obtained by the method of observation, interview, questionnaire and documentation. The results of this research showed that counseling and guidance services affect the process of improving student achievement. This is based on the questionnaire score data that has been calculated with the product moment formula that results in a correlation index value (r xy) of 0.681. This result proved larger than the value at the significance level of 5% of 0.361 and 1% of 0.463. The results of this study indicate that there is influence between Counseling Guidance on the process of improving student achievement in MTs Negeri I Bojonegoro.

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