Abstract
The current study aimed to identify educational counselors' self-efficacy and professional competence in Ajloun Governorate of Jordan. It also investigated the extent to which such self-efficacy and professional competence may differ according to three variables: educational counselors' gender, the school stage and the number of experience years. To achieve this, all 88 educational counselors working at public schools in Ajloun Governorate were investigated. The measure of self-efficacy made of 31 paragraphs and the measure of professional competence made of 27 paragraphs were applied to them. The statistical analysis of mean and standard deviations, the 3-WAY-ANOVA analysis, and simple regression showed that the degree of self-efficacy of educational counselors was medium. The response mean of the total score was 3.59, whereas the degree of professional competence of educational counselors was high. The response mean of the total score was 3.76. Additionally, the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences, related to the degree of educational counselors' self-efficacy and professional competence, due to the educational counselors' gender or the school stage. The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences, related to the degree of educational counselors' self-efficacy and professional competence, due to the educational counselors' experience years for the benefit of those having (10-19) experience years. As well, the results of this study showed that there was a statistically positive impact between the degree of self-efficacy and that of professional competence of the educational counselors.
Highlights
Jordan is located in South-West Asia, and the Middle of the Levant is located in the southern part of the Levant, and the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, with a population of (10,538,923)
The current study found that the degree of self-efficacy of educational counselors was 'moderate', and that the degree of professional competence of educational counselors was 'high'
The results found that there were no statistically significant differences in the degree of self-efficacy and professional competence of the counselors according to the gender and study stage variables
Summary
Jordan is located in South-West Asia, and the Middle of the Levant is located in the southern part of the Levant, and the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, with a population of (10,538,923). Education in Jordan is one of the finest education systems in the world and plays a pivotal role in the life and culture of Jordanian society, with 2,400,000 students in schools. As a result of this steady increase in the number of students, the Ministry of Education has recruited mentors in schools, and the number of female mentors at the beginning of the first semester of the 2019/2018 academic year has reached (2021) male and female counselors as follows: 854 male educational counselors in male schools and 1,167 female educational counselors in female schools to help develop the personality of the student from all aspects of psychological, social, behavioral, professional and cognitive, to be an active citizen who contributes to the building of his society [25]. The psychological counsellor plays an important role in achieving the general educational goals of building students’ personality and developing their social, emotional, cognitive and moral development [2]. He/she should be self-sufficient and effective and have highly professional competence that enables him/her to perform his/her work successfully [5]
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