Discipline Strategies: Influence on Gender and Academic Level of Students: A Case of Rachuonyo North Sub-County, Homabay County, Kenya
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Date
2017-09-01
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European Journal of Educational Sciences, EJES
Abstract
This paper purposed to establish if there was a significant influence of
discipline strategies on student academic performance based on the gender and
academic level of students in Homabay County, Kenya. Over the years,
students in Rachuonyo North Sub County have continued to perform poorly
in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E). The objective of this
study is to determine the influence of discipline strategies on academic
performance by gender and academic level. The research design used was
causal comparative. The researcher used simple random sampling to select 23
schools. Purposive sampling was used to identify students at different
academic levels who had received any of the three discipline strategies that is
suspension, manual labour, and sending students home to call their parent. The
quantitative data was analyzed using paired sample t-test and repeated
measures ANOVA at .05 level of significance. The study findings indicated
that girls performed poorly after discipline strategies had been used on them.
However, there was no significant difference in the academic performance of
boys after the discipline strategies. It emerged that these discipline strategies
influenced students’ academic performance differently depending on the
academic level of the student with the form two and four students registering
a decline and the form three students showing a slight improvement. The study
recommends discipline strategies other than the three used in the study for
girls. Further research is required to determine the influence of these discipline
strategies in other counties.
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Discipline Strategies, Academic performance, gender, Academic level, High school students, Kenya.