THE ROLE OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT ON STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE.
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 punishment on 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.
Sufficient: enough for a
particular purpose as much as you need or allow sufficient time to get there.
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