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1.0 INTRODUCTION
control the students, and make them adhere to the various rules and regulations
of the school. This study aims at making an elaborate work on how discipline
consider the kind of discipline being practiced in schools to check the excesses
of students in order to prevent them from going out of the track and achieving
good success in their academic pursuit. Schools in their various fields have
maintenance of order in schools. Its aim is to control the student’s action and
behavior. An obedient student is in compliance with the school rules and code of
conducts.
outside the school may have great effect on the student and may contribute to
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Dobson (1984;7) as cited by Oni (2010) also stated that, “ Without being
Based on the two assertion mentioned above, it is very clear that there is
every need to guide the students into the right paths because, that is one of the
standard, discipline and achievement of our secondary schools “in his book
titled “Education In Perspective” the (author) who expressed great concern over
the falling standard of education and moral values in our secondary school. Oni
they feel is the best approach that will favour both the student and the school.
Students form attitude in different ways, most of them hate teachers that always
punish them. Adolescent are quite different from little children who easily forget
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things. There have been cases where the students will want to revenge by
with respect to discipline, and it will be good if these approaches are exploited
used on them.
performance.
This study is very significant because a lot of times school authorities and
parents get into serious conflict due to these subjects. Parents go as far as
removing their wards from certain schools because they feel the teachers are too
hard on them. They desire a place where the performance of their children will
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Parents feel very sad each time their wards come home with broken head,
injuries on their body. This study seeks to find out better approach to handling
parents, students and the teachers. Some scholars have introduced certain
The scope of this study was limited to the impact of strict disciplinary
private schools i.e Namu secondary school, Ruby Springfield College and
training.
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CHAPTER TWO
2.1 INTRODUCTION
Many educators and students are greatly concerned about disorders and
number of schools exist, there have been a lot of cases of unfair treatment of
greatly to the bad behavior of their wards, the school should not throw caution
should perceive them as parents figure to some extent. This will help them to
School rules may be explicitly stated by educators simply inferred from the
educator’s actions.
changing times. However, it is hard for one single person to presume he can
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broader opinion, one of such scholars is Oni, (2010). He stated these based on
“The decadence that befell academics as a whole and the secondary schools in particulars, ranging
from those in power to every member of the society, all should seek collective development and
general improved living conditions. Educational goals are achievable if accorded the required
The above assertion shows that the scholars believe in the commitment of
all the various stakeholders. This clearly shows that in instilling discipline the
learner, parent, teacher, school authority all have a very strong role to play. If
The scholar also submitted that, every member of the society have a role
to play. The government cannot be ruled out because they need to create an
can be linked to increased exam mal-practices in the state. People hardly read
The researcher has noticed that, poor reading culture and wrong attitude
towards education can be linked to some of this disorder. People spend most of
can predict what the punishment will be, they prepared their mind in advance to
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School discipline should be designed to meet the changes in the lifestyle
of adolescent. The school should not make it too static as that will make the
and share clear rules, prone daily opportunities for success, and administer in-
problems, and proposes different strategies for dealing with each. Students are
same time finding ways to get their needs met. Named after psychiatrist “Alfred
attitudes, and locus of control but effect on behavior are inconclusive. Cotton,
(2009).
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However, not only were the statistics on suspensions and vandalism also
between youth and adult where there is mutuality is teaching, learning and
people, where they are typified by youth voice and in democratic schools.
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6. Be a valued asset to the school and the community. (Zeldin, s. etal 2001).
result of lack of trust between the teacher and the student and also the parent.
Where the student is disregarded by the teacher or the parent there will hardly
This is like creating an avenue where the student and the teacher will
reach an agreement e.g the student will be advised to read hard without any fear
students have all these bad attitude and behavior for several reasons. Some are
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CHAPTER THREE
3.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter gives a full description of the research method and design,
the instruments used for data collection and method of data analysis. The data
used are primary and secondary data. Primary data are materials collected as
firsthand information (fresh data from origin), while secondary date contain
documents that may include books, journals, periodicals etc. Adefila, (2008).
Survey research design was used in this research work, because it is one of
Maiduguri; twenty each per school and an interview schedule with the
Maiduguri. But in order to make the work practicable, the researcher narrowed
Springfield College. Twenty teachers each and the principals of the above
schools were involved in the research; the principals of these schools were
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interviewed. The researcher made this decision due to constrain of time,
sample being drawn from that part of the population selected because it is
is relatively high and the respondents could easily express their opinion base on
various schools and giving the teachers the questionnaires to respond to. In the
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case of the interview the researcher met the principals in person. The interview
was a structured interview. The questions are same to the three principals in
The researcher used the tabular percentage analysis to analysis the data,
explore relationship”.
“Tables are almost any form of quantitative analysis. It can be used for
frequencies (Percentages).
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CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 INTRODUCTION
Out of the sixty questionnaires that were administered, fifty six of them were
chapter.
At the end of this chapter the researcher presented an interpretation of the data
that was gotten. The data analysis and interpretation were based on the research
performance
ADMINISTERED
Table 1.
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Gender Responses Percentages
Male 21 38%
Female 35 62%
Total 56 100%
The table above indicated that 38% of the respondents are males while 62% of
Table 2.
The table above shows that 21% of the respondent falls under the age bracket of
20-25. 52% fall under the age group of 26-35, and 27% of them falls under the
Table 3.
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The above table indicated that 37% of the respondent are married, while 63% of
the respondent are single. However none of the respondents is either divorced or
SECTION B.
Table 4.
The table above shows that 49% of the respondents apply strict discipline while
51% of them indicated that they do not apply strict disciplinary measures on
their students.
The majority of the respondents stated that their reasons is to make the students
The responses shows that the main discipline given is strict and a few claimed
students, majority of the respondents did not agreed with the idea of applying
Table 5.
The above table shows that 22% of the respondent have received query for
applying strict discipline while 78% have never received such query.
Table 6.
The table above shows that 26% of the respondents use flogging to discipline
their students while 58% of the respondent use none flogging punishment to
discipline their students and then 15% of the respondents indicated that they use
Table 7
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Responses Frequency Percentages
Strict 7 13%
Mild 10 18%
Moderate 39 69%
Total 56 100%
The table above shows that 13% of the respondents apply strict discipline, 18%
of them apply mild discipline and 69% of the respondents apply moderate
measures.
Table 8
The above table indicated that 11% of the respondent students are excited about
discipline, 78% of the respondents indicated that their students are scared of
been discipline and the 11% of the respondents indicated that their students
Table 9
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The above table indicated that 38% of the respondents indicated that strict
59% of the respondent disagree with the others, they indicated that strict
performance of students and 3% percent did not take any reasonable stand. They
Table 10
The above table shows that 89% of the respondents indicates that discipline
affect the lifestyle of students, 11% of the respondents disagreed that discipline
does not affect the lifestyle of student. This shows that discipline affect the
lifestyle of students.
4.3 DISCUSSION
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reaction to discipline and finally the impact school discipline has had on their
performance.
They claimed that they don’t give preferential treatment in their discipline
approach. They also added that, their discipline is corrective in nature. When
asked how they treat very stubborn students they claimed that they take them
to school counselors who can find the possible reason for their behaviours.
However, on the issue of student attitude towards discipline they all said
their student don’t like strict discipline. And also they don’t encourage very
the school officials all said the outcome has been positive.
The tabular analysis and qualitative data analyzed clearly shows that
students don’t like strict disciplinary measures and it does not really
be too quick to apply strict discipline on their students’ base on the outcome
of this study. The fact still remains that, discipline improves the lifestyle of
students.
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CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY
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This study is on the impact of strict disciplinary measure on students’
performance.
The researcher made use of the survey research method to carry out the
consider both moral disciplines, where the teacher may not inflict any physical
pain. Examples of such discipline are denial; the child will be refused certain
privileges.
submitted that the discipline instilled in them has greatly enhanced their
academic performance.
and their responses shows that discipline has not really had much positive effect
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agreeing with the earlier outcome that students don’t like to be discipline and
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the researcher after analyzing the data concludes that strict
discipline and moderate discipline are very different. And moderate discipline
will make students to be focused, but strict discipline does not really make any
performance, thus, student should be given the benefit of the doubt. Teachers
should advise erring students and not rely on using the cane on them in order to
RECOMMENDATION
been made;
REFERNCES
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Adefila, J.O. ( 2008), research methodology in behavioral sciences. Loud book
publisers, Ibadan.
www.wikipedia.com on 24-9-2014.
www.uzspace.uzulu.ac.za
Ibadan, Nigeria.
Zeldin, S. et al. ( 2001), “ bringing youg people to the table: effect on adults and
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