Citation

KayIkçI K. Procedia Soc. Behav. Sci. 2009; 1(1): 1215-1225.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.218

PMID

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Abstract

A majority of disciplinary incidents that take place in the classroom originate from the insufficiency of teachers' classroom management skills. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of elementary school teachers' classroom management skills on the discipline behaviour of students.
The research was conducted as a survey with 450 teachers commissioned in the city of Antalya. Data were analysed employing t-test with regards to the significance of regression coefficients. A significant relation between the dimensions regarding classroom management skills of the teachers and disciplinary behaviour of the students was observed. It was seen that there was a positive relation between all the dimensions of students' disciplinary behaviour and teachers' first, second, third, fourth and sixth dimensions regarding classroom management; and a negative one with the fifth dimension. It is observed that the dimensions regarding teachers' classroom management skills are important predictors in students' disciplinary behaviour.