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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.
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 in fact 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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