THE ROLE OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT ON STUDENT'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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THE ROLE OF
REWARD AND PUNISHMENT ON STUDENT'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
ABSTRACT
This project
work is the role of reward and punishment on student’s academic performance in
some selected secondary schools in Oredo local government area of Edo state. In
order to carryout the study, the researcher formulates research questions. A
questionnaire made up of 20 items was used to elicit responses from the
respondents. The population of the study consisted of students from selected
secondary schools in Oredo local government area. The data was analyzed using a
simple percentage. Discussion of results that emerged from the study revealed
that there is high level of student’s population who takes to punishment as a
habit. That majority learnt the act of punishment from their peer group etc.
Based on the discussion of result, useful recommendations were made. It is my
ardent believe that these recommendations when implemented by the authorities
concerned will go a long way in stopping punishment among students in the
locality.
TABLE OF
CONTENT
Chapter
One
Introduction
Background
of the study
Statement of
problem
Purpose of
study
The
significance of the study
Research
questions
Scope of the
study
Limitation
of the study
Definition
of terms
Chapter
Two
Literature
review
Chapter
Three
Methodology
of the study
Introduction
Administration
of questionnaire
Research
instrument
Method of
data analysis
Chapter
Four
Data
analysis and presentation
Chapter
Five
Summary,
conclusion and recommendation
References
Questionnaires
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
Reward and
punishment are regarded as a complete important means through which a teacher
can maintain his or her class discipline in the secondary schools. Many
educationists and psychologists have expressed different views about the
effective use of reward and punishment in the secondary schools.
As the study
progresses, the research hopes to bring together the different views and
feelings of others, so that the reader can be given sufficient ground on which
to base his or her conclusion after reading this work. The issues of reward and
punishment are mostly debated on the secondary school administered today most
especially when they are related to learning process. It is equally an area of
interest, which closely involves many teachers and parents who the need for
education authority to define its limits, some scholars in their books
suggested allowing nearly total freedom to children in learning process in the
school. a prompt and an acceptable solution must be provided on this issue
because the outcome will give a practical advice and guidance to those who are
just entering the teaching career or to parents who show much interest over
their children ‘s progress in life. This research work does not however, claim
to solve the entire problems concerned with punishment and rewards in learning
process in the schools, but rather it highlight some solutions which will be of
great educational values to the parents as well as the public in general.
STATEMENT OF
THE PROBLEM
The work is
on the study of the effects of reward and punishmenton academic performance of
students in some selected secondary schools in Oredo local government area of
Edo state. Many educationists psychologists have written many books covering
this topic, the writer attempts in the study. Therefore to examine the views of
some of these renowned writers in addition to the research findings and
personal experience so as to be able to know the following problems.
1. To find out whether effective learning can
take place in form of punishment.
2. Whether there is other method of learning
effectively with reward and punishment.
3. If punishment has effect on the learning
process of the students in secondary schools.
4. If reward and punishment can be combined so
that much can be achieved in terms of educational objectives.
PURPOSE OF
THE STUDY
The purpose
of this study is to investigate the effects and roles of rewards and punishment
in some selected secondary schools in Oredo local government area of Edo state.
`Here the researcher will focus her
attention on whether or not reward and punishment should be applied in the
teaching and learning process in secondary schools.
The following schools were used for
the purpose of this study.
1. Ogbe secondary school
2. Idia college secondary school
3. Emotan college secondary school
4. Oba Ewuare secondary school.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
This study
is expected to be of much importance and beneficial to pupils and parents in
Oredo local government area of Edo state. Through this study, they may come to
appreciate the implication of reward and punishment in the secondary schools.
It is hoped that this study will help the secondary schools’ administration in
Oredo local government area to benefit and improve on the academic performance
of their various schools.
` This study will also help to discover
the effects of rewards and punishment on learning in some selected secondary
schools in Oredo local government area of Edo state.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The
following research questions are formulated to guide this study.
1. Does punishment has any effect on the
learning process of the children in secondary schools?
2. Does effective learning always take place
in the absence of any form of punishment?
3. Do parents and teachers support the use of
punishment?
4. Does reward and punishment promote orb
encourage learning?
5. Does punishment has negative effect on
learning?
SCOPE OF THE
STUDY
This study
is limited to the roles of rewards and punishment on pupils’ performance in
some selected secondary schools in Oredo local government area of Edo state.
The following schools have been
marked ads samples for the purpose of this study.
1. Ogbe secondary school
2. Oba Ewuare secondary school
3. Idia college secondary school
4. Emotan college secondary school
On
completion of the research work the writer shall make the findings available to
the headmasters of the schools where she conducted the research, such research
work would be a solution to the research question stated on the paragraph
dealing with the problem of the study.
The writer shall endeavour to brief
the communities where she conducted her research work, the out come of the
objectives of her interview with them, it will be a sort of enlightenment on
the part of the investigators since the children are comparable to other
children in the whole of Edo state because they run the same curriculum under
the same brand of teachers, the finding of the research would be the same for
other place in Edo state and infact elsewhere in the final outcome of this
little research work will be of use to teacher, communities and education
offices and also to policy makers.
DEFINITION
OF TERMS
Reward: is
an act of appreciating a job well done.
Punishment:
an act of correcting a wrong act or character exhibited.
Discipline:
is the act of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing them if
they do not control the situation that results from this training.
Investigation:
is the act of official examination of the facts about a situation, crime etc.
criminal murder police investigation.
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