Abstract
This study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of rewards and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary school students in Obio-Akpo local government in Rivers State. The study was specifically set to establish the influence of rewards on students’ respect for school rules on the effectiveness of reward and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary students in Obio-Akpo Local Government Area, to establish the influence of punishment on correcting deviant behaviour among secondary school students on the effectiveness of reward and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary students in Obio-Akpo Local Government Area, to determine the influence of rewards on class attendance and academic performance of secondary school students on the effectiveness of reward and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary students in Obio-Akpo Local Government Area and to determine the influence of punishment on class attendance and academic performance of secondary school students on the effectiveness of reward and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary students in Obio-Akpo Local Government Area.
The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of students some students of selected secondary schools in Obio-Akpo local government in Rivers State. In determining the sample size, the researcher conveniently selected 229 respondents and 210 were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using frequency tables.
While the hypotheses were tested using Chi-square statistical tool. The result of the findings reveals that reward influences student’s respect for and conformity to school rules and regulations. Furthermore the result of the findings reveals that the use of reward and punishment effective in promoting discipline among secondary school student. Therefore, it is recommended that the process of managing students’ acts of indiscipline in schools should start with the identification of the type of student enrolled in schools. Because it is only when the personal psychological makeup of the students is known that one can device the appropriate methods of managing them to the desirable standard
Chapter One Summary
Education is a learning process for students to understand something and be critical in thinking. Education is essential in the life process wherewith education we will get additional knowledge that is useful for living a better life. The goal is to educate and develop the potential of students. That way, every student is expected to have good knowledge, creativity, and personality. Education is also crucial to improve a nation’s quality, a country is said to be advanced, and its quality is good.
Chapter Two Summary
This research study is anchored on the Theory of B. F. Skinner which is the Operant Conditioning (1953). The Operant Conditioning Theory or sometimes referred to as Instrumental Conditioning, is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Skinner paired a dog and a bell in order to study how stimulus affects behavior. He concluded that through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior. As a behaviorist, Skinner believed that internal thoughts and motivations could not be used to explain behavior. Instead, he suggested, we should look only at the external, observable causes of human behavior. The term operant refers to any “active behavior that operates upon the environment to generate consequences”. In other words, Skinner’s theory explained how we acquire the range of learned behaviors we exhibit each and every day.
Chapter Three summary
The population for the study will consist of executives and their subordinates in the organization which is charged with the application of management by objectives to attain organizational goals in the organization.
This study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of rewards and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary school students in Obio-Akpo local government in River State. Hence, the population of this study comprises of students of selected secondary schools in Obio-Akpo local government in River State.
Chapter Four Summary
| Demographic information | Frequency | Percent |
| Gender
Male |
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| 90 | 43% | |
| Female | 120 | 57% |
| Age | ||
| 10-12 | 44 | 21% |
| 13-14 | 58 | 28% |
| 15-16 | 89 | 42% |
| 17-18 | 19 | 9% |
| Class | ||
| Junior Secondary | 88 | 42% |
| Senior Secondary | 122 | 58% |
Chapter Five Summary
In this study, our focus was to examine on the effectiveness of rewards and punishment in promoting discipline among secondary school students in Obio-Akpo local government in Rivers State. The study is was specifically carried out to ascertain the perception of the teachers on the effects of rewards and punishment, establish whether reward influences student’s respect for and conformity to school rules and regulations, determine whether punishment have impact on correcting deviant behavior among secondary school students and investigate whether the use of reward and punishment is effective in promoting discipline among secondary school student.
The study adopted the survey research design and randomly enrolled participants in the study. A total of 210 responses were validated from the enrolled participants where all respondent are students of selected secondary schools in Obio-Akpo local government in Rivers State.
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