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Martha Buell; Stephanie Kuntz – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Decades of research has documented the negative effects of physical punishment, including spanking (Heilmann et al., 2021). Since 1998, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has endorsed the use of time out from positive reinforcement (TO) as an alternative to corporal punishment (Sege et al., 2018). Despite urging at the federal level…
Descriptors: Child Care, Certification, Punishment, Positive Reinforcement
Ada Whyte – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative research study was to analyze the perspectives of educators who are also parents of public-school children regarding the effectiveness of the implementation of punitive, exclusionary and restorative discipline practices within low-income urban elementary schools. The guided protocol questions in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Discipline Policy, Suspension
Okesina, Falilat Anike; Famolu, Florence Bosede – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2022
Anti-social behaviors among Nigerian in-school adolescents continue to increase in an alarming rate. This study assessed teachers' perceived effectiveness of punishment on student by in Osun State, Nigeria. Participants' age and years of teaching experience were examined. The research design employed in this study was survey with a population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Punishment, Social Cognition, Teacher Attitudes
Oxley, Laura; Holden, George W. – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Aims: Maintaining order is a fundamental task for teachers in the classroom. Historically, some form of punishment has been the common response to undesirable behaviour. However, over the past two and a half decades, a different approach to classroom management, sometimes labelled 'positive discipline', is being increasingly adopted by schools.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Positive Behavior Supports, Punishment, Behavior Problems
Tate, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Widespread school discipline problems came to forefront in the educational arena in the 1990s (Ogulmus & Vuran, 2016). Exclusionary practices (e.g., in- or out-of-school suspension, strict rules, or punishment [Skiba & Peterson, 2000]), also known as traditional school discipline practices (TSDP) (Scheuermann & Hall, 2011) have become…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Suspension, Attendance, Rural Schools
Bernard, Shelton D. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Because the relationship between school disciplinary models and truancy outcomes is unknown, it is difficult for school leaders to understand the costs and benefits of punitive versus nonpunitive discipline. To achieve the State of Georgia's stated policy objectives of lowering truancy and its negative outcomes, this knowledge gap needs to be…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Truancy, Student Behavior, Middle School Students
Dubin, Jennifer – American Educator, 2016
Together, a school district and a local union are working to ensure that educators are trained in restorative practices in order to improve school climates and keep students in school and learning. This article describes how, in recent years, administrators and teachers have shifted from traditional school punishments, such as suspension, to…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems, Punishment
Neeld, Robin R. – 1999
This paper describes a program that was developed and implemented to define better the incidents used by a rural school district to report school violence to the state. The program was also designed to decrease the use of out-of-school suspension by 90 school administrators in this Florida district. Some of the strategies used for the program…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Cotton, Kathleen; Savard, William G. – 1982
A review of 31 research documents found 26 of them relevant to the topic of student discipline and motivation. Variables studied in the 26 documents include time-on-task, achievement, disruptions, student attitudes and self-concept, absenteeism, disciplinary referral, detention, suspension, and expulsion. Among the review's findings are that…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Boylan, Ellen M.; Weiser, Jennifer – Education Law Center, 2002
In a survey commissioned by the Hamilton Fish Institute, Education Law Center (ELC), surveyed key national education stakeholder groups to determine their position on zero tolerance student discipline policies and school safety, and whether the organizations are involved in any work on zero tolerance policies. Implementation of these policies is…
Descriptors: Discipline, School Safety, Educational Opportunities, Zero Tolerance Policy