Students’ Readiness to Implement Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Services: a Preface for Improvement

Abstract

Comprehensive guidance and counseling services (CGCS) was a complete framework in implementation of
guidance and counseling in school which was able to facilitate the students in facing the requirement of Asian
Economy Community (AEC). The readiness of the college students to implement CGCS need to be
measured, as the preliminary research to see whether the students of FKIP UNS already had the knowledge
and skills to implement CGCS. This thing is important, because all this time college students who near to
graduate still using the guidance and counseling curriculum focused on clinical, so that it was required ‘need
assessment’ to arrange fine tuning workshop in order to be able to implement CGCS. The result of
identification of the college students’ readiness perception profile to arrange and implement CGCS program
that systematic was 83%. The perception of college students’ readiness to arrange the program focused on the
students’ development was 92%. The perception of college students’ readiness to actively carry out the
collaboration and consultation with all the school staffs was 62%. The perception of college students’
readiness to create school environment which support the development of students was 68%. From those data
we can see, for the arrangement activity of systematic guidance and counseling program and focused on the
students’ development, the college students already had high level of readiness. That was considered as high
score, because in the lesson of candidates of guidance and counseling education in the FKIP UNS study
program already facilitated with subjects about preparation program. However the perception of readiness to
implement collaboration and consultation with all the school staffs and the readiness to create school
environment which support the students’ development still low.