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Collegial planning in classroom discipline in the elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Omaha

Mary Elizabeth Kearney, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Abstract

This study was an examination of collegial planning in student discipline used by faculties of elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Omaha. Faculties using three different discipline models--Assertive Discipline, Boy's Town, and Discipline With Purpose--and a control group were surveyed to assess whether faculty cohesiveness and classroom practices in student discipline differed. The primary purposes of this study were: to ascertain if faculty cohesiveness existed in the faculties who had adopted a common program for discipline; to discern if classroom practices differed between users of the three discipline programs examined; and to discern if length of service impacted teaching methods of teachers using one of the three discipline programs. A survey developed by the researcher was sent to 146 teachers using the three discipline programs and a control group. Subjects were asked to respond on a five-point scale to questions about faculty cohesiveness and classroom discipline practices. The research question on length of service was addressed by using the data provided in the responses to demographic questions in the survey. The means used to determine the level of faculty cohesiveness and classroom practices were computed using data from the responses to the survey questions. Differences between the four groups participating in the survey were identified by computing analyses of variance. Mean scores generated for the faculty cohesiveness subscale indicated a statistically significant difference between the Discipline With Purpose Model and all other groups. Also, statistically significant differences were found between the Boy's Town Model and the control group. Mean scores for the classroom practices subscale indicated a statistically significant difference between the Discipline With Purpose Model and the control group. No interaction was found among any of the groups and length of service.

Subject Area

Curricula|Teaching|School administration|Elementary education

Recommended Citation

Kearney, Mary Elizabeth, "Collegial planning in classroom discipline in the elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Omaha" (1996). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9628237.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9628237

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