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
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 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.
1.2 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.
1.4 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.
1.5 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.
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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.
1.6 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?
1.7 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
H0:
There is no mean differences in gender responses of the respondents that
purnishment have significant effect on learning process
H1:
There is mean differences in gender responses of the respondents that
purnishment have significant effect on learning process
H0:
Purnishment has no significant effect on learning process
H1:
Purnishment has significant effect on learning process.
1.8 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.
1.9 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.