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Determining Successful Discipline Approaches: Reducing Student Tardiness, Larrilyn Lawrence

Theses

Determining Successful Discipline Approaches : Reducing Student Tardiness was designed to determine what approaches administrators might employ to aid high school students in reducing excessive tardies. For nine weeks, randomly selected subjects were placed into one of three treatment groups . The null hypothesis was:

There is no statistically significant difference at the 0.01 level in the recidivism rate among three groups of students:

• 1. Those referred to an administrator's office for excessive tardies who are cited the tardy policy and assigned a detention. (Treatment Group Number One)
• 2. Those referred to an administrator's office for excessive tardies who are …