KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND COMPLIANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICY IN IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

One of the objectives of school discipline policy is to instill discipline
among students. However, in-spite of the availability of this policy in
various public secondary schools in Nigeria, there seems to be numerous
cases of indiscipline among students and this has become a source of
concern to all stakeholders in the education sector. In an attempt to
proffer possible solutions to this unending challenge, the study
investigated the influence of knowledge and attitude on compliance of
secondary school students towards school discipline policy in Ibadan
North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The descriptive
survey research design was employed to collect the requisite data. The
multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted to select 570 respondents
out of 10,979 students (population) as the sample for the study. The
instruments used for data collection were knowledge, attitude,
compliance and school discipline policy questionnaire. The overall
reliability coefficient of the instrument was found to be 0.78. The data
collected were analyzed using statistical measures of Mean, Standard
deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). The
findings of the study showed that knowledge and compliance of school
discipline policy among secondary school students in Ibadan North Local
Government Area of Oyo State were significantly related (r =0.330,
p<0.05). The study also revealed a significant relationship between
attitude and compliance of school discipline policy among secondary
school students in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State (r
= 0.593, p<0.05). Based on the findings, it was recommended that
school rules and regulations should be emphasized and given more 86 Knowledge, awareness for easy compliance. Also, students should be encouraged to
portray positive attitude towards their respective rules and regulations.