High School Students' Perceptions of the most practiced Classroom Control and Discipline Strategies by their Social Studies Teachers

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate high school students' perceptions of their social studies teachers' most practiced behavior control discipline strategies. The study sample consisted of 243 Kuwaiti high school students who participated in this study by responding to its researcher-designed questionnaire tool. The study collected responses and perceptions of this sample on six dimensions: clarity of behavior regulations, teacher's disciplinary methods, teachers' favoritism, corporal punishment, most widely used disciplinary methods & strategies, and most effectively used disciplinary methods & strategies. The analysis was carried out using SPSS, and thus a variety of findings were highlighted. These findings have shown that the students are aware of these disciplinary strategies and their importance, and that the variable of gender showed differences only on one of the study's dimensions related to the use of corporal punishment. Upon these results, the researcher's recommendations were addressed to the people in charge of the educational process in the Kuwaiti schools.