PROGRAMS

1. Admission Program

This program facilitates the entrance of new students in the university. It includes scheduling of test, admission test administration, determining cut-off scores, classifying the students by program, referral to the deans of program, and conducting orientation Program for New Freshmen & Transferees

2. Peer Facilitating Program

Peer Facilitating Program gives opportunity to students who are carefully selected and trained to provide assistance to their peer to improve the latter’s social functioning, assist them in their concerns and in coping with their problems. Student Peer Facilitators serve as the arms of the Guidance & Testing Center in reaching out to students in need of guidance & counseling.

3. Job Placement Program

This program aims to equip the graduating students with knowledge and skills necessary for their job hunting and to prepare them for future career and employment.

4. Gender Awareness and Women’s Affairs (GAWA) Program

This program is designed to advocate the worth, potential and rights of every person. It aims to promote gender sensitivity and more equitable male-female relations in the university and to raise the community’s awareness on women and gender issues and laws.

5. Marketing Program

This program involves providing career information to the Senior high school students of NDU feeder schools and assisting them in their career planning and decision-making. General information, course offerings & other programs, services, facilities, and activities at NDU are also given. This is done in collaboration with the other sectors in the University.

6. Personality Development Program

This includes Session on Social Graces for First Year Students, Career Enhancement and Stress Management Session for SHS students

7. Referral Program Referral Program

This is a collaborative efforts of the GTC and the academic sector where students who need assistance in their developmental tasks and in their personal, educational/career and social adjustments are referred for counseling or consultation with the professional counselors.

8. Enrichment Program for SHS Teachers and Parent

SERVICES

1. Counseling Service

It involves assisting the students and other clients toward better understanding of themselves and their environment and encourages them to assume responsibility for making decisions, which will lead to satisfactory adjustment and acceptable resolution of problem being considered.

Counseling enables students to:

• Increase knowledge of self and accept himself, his strengths and weaknesses.
• Understand the world, in which he lives and develop the ability to understand the changing world.
• Develop skills in solving immediate problems, reduce tension resulting from frustrations, anxieties and the likes and improve the skills and knowledge required to solve their problems.
• Increase self-direction in making decisions and plans.
• Enhance personal development and psychological growth towards maturity.

2. Individual Inventory

This is designed to gather data about students to enable the counselors, teachers and administrators to understand the student better.

It includes pertinent data accumulated from birth, which can give appropriate picture of the individual. Such information includes individual’s home and family background, school history, mental ability or academic aptitude, achievement aptitudes, personality profile and plans in the future.

It serves as the key to counseling activity upon which the personal assistance is based. Additional information is integrated into the inventory periodically to aid in understanding the student.

3. Testing Service

This service assesses/ appraises the individual’s characteristics and behavior. This is made available not only to the NDU stakeholders but also to external clients.

Specifically, this service has the following objectives:

• To supplement other data obtained in other guidance techniques.
• To determine the instructional needs of individual involving their strengths and weaknesses.
• To provide faculty members with information about student’s ability in order to relate achievement to student’s potentialities and activities.
• To discover emotional disturbance in students that may be blocking adequate expression and actualization of their intellectual potentialities.
• To help students set their educational goal.
• To help students plan their vocational course.
• To help outside agencies, both government and private in screening/selecting job applicants and in classifying and assessing and promoting job personnel.
• To help student researchers, both undergraduate and post graduate in supplementing their data that they need in their theses, dissertations, and other research work.

Psychological Tests are classified as General Mental Ability Tests, Interest Inventories, Aptitude, Achievement, & Personality Tests.