Year: 2019 | Month: June | Volume 9 | Issue 1
Study of Effect of Punishment on Students’ Academic Achievement in Schools
Abstract:
Punishment is one of the hazardous aspects in educational course of a student that is persevering to vacate the roots of personality development and academic career of the subject students. This study aimed to establish the relationship between teachers’ punishment and its effects on student’s academic achievements. The study was carried out in Itarsi in Madhya Pradesh, India. The study employed survey research design. Questionnaire was the main instrument for data collection. Two schools were randomly selected in which one was government and another was non government school in Itarsi city, 80 students (40-40 each) in which 20-20 were boys and girls were the sample of the study. The major findings of the study revealed that Students between the ages of 10 but below 13 dominated the study with disagree that punishments were administered to them at the right cause, also 60% of the student disagree with the statement that disciplinary committee was maintained to handle students in school. The correlation result showed that at 0.05 level of significance administration of punishment is negatively related to academic achievement implying that as punishment increases there is a decline in the achievement of students. The study came up with the following conclusions based on the findings that punishments were poorly administered to students; this creates room for chaos in schools characterized with school property destruction, and thus affecting students’ general academic achievement. There are proposed some recommendations in the study to deal with the wide spread and increasing levels of indiscipline among children. These include counselling and guidance in schools, strengthening school rules and regulations. As to address the effects of indiscipline in schools, a strong parent-teacher relationship need to be established and to achieve its objectives teachers should be the role models of discipline if this struggle
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