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Detention Is Not The Answer, Stephanie Mccann
Detention Is Not The Answer, Stephanie Mccann
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
School discipline is used in schools across the United States. It is used to help with controlling students and maintaining behaviors. Also, it helps maintain order in the school. School discipline varies due to the behavior and actions that the students are exhibiting as well as the school context. Detention is one of the most common punishments in schools. Detention usually means that a student remains in school during a certain time and reports to a certain room as a punishment. This literature review will examine various studies conducted on school discipline, particularly those focused on detention, and explore options …
Attendance Of Detention In Junior High, Hilary Iehl
Attendance Of Detention In Junior High, Hilary Iehl
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
The purpose of this action research project was to determine if detention is better attended when students are assigned to serve with the person who doled out the punishment compared to a catchall detention location where the student may or may not know the adult(s) working the room. This action research looked at whether a personal relationship with a student had a greater effect on attendance than students having to find a room with a person they may or may not know. Detentions for 20 students were tracked for six weeks. Quantitative data was collected through the results of assigned …
Reducing Recitivism: How To Combat Repeat Suspensions And Improve Student Achievement, Derrick King
Reducing Recitivism: How To Combat Repeat Suspensions And Improve Student Achievement, Derrick King
FL MED Educational Leadership Capstones
This project is intended to take examine how Mount Olive High School can implement an alternative school program to reduce the number of students who are habitually absent from school, reduce the number of students receiving out of school suspension, and improve this demographic of student’s overall student achievement. This project explains what alternative school is, its pro’s and con’s, and how it has been proven effective in other schools. This project examines the steps which were taken at Mount Olive to implement this program into its school. The project provides data on the effect the alternative school had on …