Effects Of Corporal Purnishment As A Corrective Measure On Students' Academic Performance (A Study Of Selected Schools In Oye Ekiti Local Government).

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Discipline and academic performances are the core of our today's education. Some

scholars have attributed poor performance of students in academic to high level of indiscipline

among students while others disagreed. Nevertheless, it becomes essential in recent times that

many schools have traded away discipline and as a result led to poor academic performance of

students. This study was carried ont to establish the relationships between schools discipline and

students' academic performance. The study was conducted in Oye Ekiti Local govt., a town in

Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study employed cross sectional research survey design in which

questionnaire was the main instnm1ent of data collection in addition to interview guide and

document review. Data was collected from 205 respondents in high schools' students using semistructured

questionnaire method. Simple percentage and Chi-square statistical method were used

to analyze the data. The results show that corporal punishment has multidimensional impacts

upon students' academic performance/career, psyche and personality development. The study

concludes that the adoption of Corporal punishment has various effects on students psyche,

emotion and personality, this therefore resulted to student inability to relate well with their peers, and they become highly aggressive and at the same time affect their academic performances.

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