A meta-analysis: Student misbehaviours that effect classroom management

Author(s):

Gulay Dalgic(presenting / submitting)Guzide Bayhan

Conference:

ECER 2012

Network:

05. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education

Format:

Paper

Session Information

05 SES 01 A, Behaviour Management and Teacher Collective Efficacy

Parallel Paper Session

Time:

2012-09-18

13:15-14:45

Room:

ESI 2 - Aula 6

Chair:

Dolf van Veen

Contribution

Background: Student misbehaviour is a problem affecting schools across the nation and around the world. Student misbehaviour in the classroom not only interferes with teaching and learning but is also thought to be a leading factor contributing to teacher stress and burnout (Giancola, 1998). Student conduct problems in the classroom vary according to class, lesson content, educational level, time and student characteristics (Ağaoğlu, 2002). Research on student misbehaviours in classroom reveal that there are many misbehaviour types in classroom; and teachers should be prepared to prevent those misbehaviours by making necessary preparations, adaptations and applications in their classrooms (Duke, 1984). Therefore, this study aims to help teachers in the process of preparing themselves to conduct effective classroom management strategies to prevent student misbehaviours.

Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to conduct a meta-analysis of research focusing on student misbehaviours in classroom. The following questions were aimed to be answered in the study: 1. What are the misbehaviours that effect classroom management negatively? 2. Do the misbehaviours of students vary depending on the educational levels (elementary and secondary education) of students?, 3. What is the frequency of misbehaviours encountered according to education level?

Method

In order to answer the research questions, a meta-analysis method was employed. Dissertations and articles that reveal the situation in Turkish schools and that were published between 2001 and 2011 were searched in national and international databases. Considering the availability of dissertations electronically, a 10-year period was selected. The searched terms we used were; classroom management, misbehaviour, challenging students and classroom management strategies. The search resulted in a total of 110 initial hits. First, abstracts were reviewed to identify studies that met the inclusion requirements (studies focusing on elementary and secondary level student misbehaviours and having arithmetic mean, frequency and standard deviation). For this step a “research analysis form” was designed by the researchers. Finally, the methods and results sections of remaining studies were reviewed for inclusion. 17 studies out of 110 were decided to be included in meta-analysis. Analysis were conducted both qualitatively and quantitatively. Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software Program was used in quantitative analysis. In meta analysis random effects model was employed.

Expected Outcomes

According to the findings of the study misbehaviour of students can be classified in the following 6 categories; not accomplishing the tasks assigned by the teacher, indifference to the lessons, noise making, using filthy language to teacher and the classmates, damage to school stuff, and coming late. It is seen that the frequency of misbehavior do not vary depending on the education levels. Effect size of each study is calculated. In qualitative meta anlysis the sample was 3820 with the integration of all the studies included in the study. The number of studies in the 10-year period is not large compared to other meta-analysis studies. We could have chosen to go back further than 10 years. Only availability of the dissertations electronically was a reason for determining this time period. However the financial cost and time constraint for obtaining hard copy dissertations was prohibitive. With a systematic analysis of previous research about the topic, the study highlights major student misbehavior types that are common in all levels of education.

References

Ağaoğlu, E. (2002). Sınıf Yönetimiyle İlgili Genel Olgular [Phenomena of classroom management]. Sınıf Yönetimi [Classroom Management] (Ed.: Zeki Kaya), p:3-17, Ankara: Pegem. Card, N.A. (2011). Applied Meta-Analysis for Social Science Research (Methodology In The Social Sciences). New York: The Guilford Press. Duke, D. L. (1984) Teacher’s guide to classroom management. Newyork: Random House. Fleiss, J.R. (1981). The statistical methods for rates and proportions (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. Susan Poland Giancola, S.P. (1998). Student misbehaviour: An exploratory study of individual, familial, social, and institutional influences. Dissertations available from ProQuest. Paper AAI9913459. http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9913459. Reese, R.J.; Prout, H.T.; Zirkelback, E.A.; Anderson, C.R. (2010). Effectiveness of school-based psychotherapy: A meta-analysis of dissertation research. Psychology in the Schools, 47(10), 1035-1045.

Author Information

Gulay Dalgic (presenting / submitting)

bahcesehir university

educational sciences

Istanbul

Guzide Bayhan

Bahcesehir University, Turkey

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