TEACHER EFFECTIVE IN THE SELECTION OF STRATEGIES FOR TREATING BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS
TEACHER EFFECTIVE IN THE SELECTION OF STRATEGIES FOR TREATING BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS
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2000-12
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CHUKUMA, GODDY
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Abstract
The study concerns teachers' effectiveness in the selection of strategies for
treating behavioural problems of secondary school students in Kaduna
metropolis. Specifically, the study set out to: (a) Identify strategies that
enhanced teachers' effectiveness in treating behavioural problems; (b) To find
out the effectiveness of the strategies of the two groups of private and public
school teachers for behavioural changes in students; and (c) To determine the
most suitable strategies for use by teachers in treating behavioural problems.
To guide the study, three null hypotheses were tested, thus: (a) There are no
significant differences between the Private and Public school teachers in the
meanresponses to their perception of their effectiveness in treating behavioural
problems with respect to the use of: (i) Communication (ii) Corporal punishment
(iii) Suspension from class room (iv) Punishment (extra class exercise/manual
labour) (v) Help seeking and (vi) Behaviour Modification Technique; (b) Private
and Public school teachers will not differ significantly in their perception of their
effectiveness in the use of strategies for treating behavioural problems; and (c)
Private and Public School teachers will not differ significantly in their rating of
the most suitable strategies for treating behavioural problems.
The survey method was adopted. Two hundrend and eighty five randomly
selected teachers from a population of 1088 participated in the study. The
teachers were made up of 11 3 from private and 1 72 from public schools. Male
teachers constitute 162; while the female teachers were 122. The sex of a
teacher was not indicated.
The instrument for data collection, was the Treatment for Behavioural Problem
Inventory (T.B.P.I) built on a Likert-type five point scale. The instrument has
eight sections: Personal data, communication, corporal punishment, suspension
from classroom, punishment (extra class exercise and manual labour), help
seeking, Behaviour Modification Technique and rating of most suitable
strategies. It was a 56 item instrument which has value of 0.94.
A two tailed t test statistical analysis was used to test for significance on the
variables in the instrument. Also, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation
Coefficient was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. While the
Mann - Whitney U test was used to test for significance on the most suitable
strategies for treating behavioural problems.
From hypothesis 1, except on Behaviour Modification Technique, results show
that there are no significant differences in the mean of the two groups of
teachers on the use of communication, corporal punishment, suspension from
classroom, punishment (extra class exercise and manual labour) and help
seeking as strategies for treating behavioural problems (P>0.05). On the
second hypothesis, result shows that there is no significant difference in the
mean of the two groups. While on hypothesis 3, result also shows that there
is no significant difference in the rating of the strategies in terms of their
suitability in treating behavioural problems. Results also show that
communication, Behaviour Modification Technique and help-seeking in the order
of importance enhance teachers in treating behavioural problems and they are
the most suitable strategies; while corporal punishment, suspension from
classroom and punishment (extra class exercise and manual labour) do not.
Apart from this, it was found that teachers in private schools were more likely
to use these strategies that enhance teachers' treatment of behavioural
problems than those in public schools. It was recommended that teachers
especially those in public schools, should use those strategies found to be
suitable and that enhance their treatment of behavioural problems.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION (EDUCATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY).
Keywords
TEACHER,, EFFECTIVENESS,, SELECTION,, STRATEGIES,, TREATING,, BEHAVIOURAL,, PROBLEMS