Effects of corporal punishment and psychological treatment on student behavior

Effects Of Corporal Punishment and Psychological Treatment on Students’ Learning and Behavior

Research Question

What are the effects of corporal punishment and psychological treatment on students’ learning and behavior?

Importance (why would other researchers be interested in the study?)

Other researchers would be interested in the study because it offers vital information on the impact of corporal punishment on students’ performance. There is contention if we need to bring back punishment in schools to tame ill behavior. Therefore, using the results of this study, we can see that corporal punishment increases instead of reducing or correcting unhealthy behavior. Researchers interested in learning more about student behavior will find this study informative because they will understand why some students have good behaviors and perform exceptionally and others struggle. Using the study results, researchers can push for improvements in the education sector where more emphasis would be placed on psychological treatment over punishment.

Hypotheses

H1: Corporal punishment corrects negative behavior, whether or not corporal punishment reinforces positive behavior (Arif & Rafi, 2007).

H2: Teachers’ classroom-strategies failure is the basic cause of school violence; that is to say, whether or not a wrongful classroom strategy creates a negative attitude among students, which shows itself in violence (Arif & Rafi, 2007).

H3: CPG scholastic performance is better than PTG; that is to say, whether or not the Corporal Punishment Group scholastic performance is better than the Psychological Treatment Group (Arif & Rafi, 2007).

Design & Variables

Design: Experimental

Independent Variables: Corporal punishment and psychological

Treatment.

Number of participants (n=-)

32 students of grade X

Materials & Measures

Observation of the students after being awarded either corporal punishment or psychological treatment (Arif & Rafi, 2007). Observation involves watching the students’ behavior and noting down different behavior displays.

School tests are administered to gauge the impact of either corporal punishment or psychological treatment.

Results

The researchers established that the psychological treatment group’s performance in studies was better than that of the corporal punishment group (Arif & Rafi, 2007). Due to these results, the first hypothesis was rejected. Psychological treatment has the power to correct students’ negative behavior. Corporal punishment was found to strengthen ill behavior. Classroom participation in the corporal punishment group was lower than that of the psychological treatment group. The researchers established there was a 95% of written performance in the psychological treatment group compared to 90% in the corporal punishment group. The second hypothesis was confirmed where the researchers found that the failures of the teachers in the classroom contributed to school violence (Arif & Rafi, 2007). The third hypothesis was rejected because the study results indicate the psychological treatment group was filled with motivation for producing written assignments and learning. When a teacher makes a mistake, students in the psychological treatment group are more likely to pinpoint the error than those in the corporal punishment group.