"Jag ville ha vägledning" : En kvantitativ studie av uppsökande vägledning på Naturvetenskapsprogrammet.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of our research is to study how guidance counseling initiated by the students themselves differs between girls and boys in high school. We want to study if there are any differences between girls and boys regarding guidance initiated by the students themselves. We conducted a quantitative survey consisting of a questionnaire survey with 125 respondents. The respondents are second year students at the Science program. The result of the survey shows that there are hardly any differences between girls and boys regarding guidance initiated by the students themselves. The result also reveals that the respondents are feeling satisfied with the educational and vocational guidance and that the respondents prefer to contact a guidance counselor in form of personal meetings instead of e-mail contact, for example. We came to the conclusion that the respondents are keen about their schooling due to that course related questions ended up in the top among the reasons to visit a guidance counselor in both sexes. Our survey also shows that a majority of both girls and boys visited a guidance counselor several times during their high school years. Our hope is that guidance initiated by the students themselves becomes more noticed and that more research will be conducted in this area.