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.
Department | Education |
Project ID Code | EDU0152 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 46 pages |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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