RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS AND THEIR BEHAVIOR ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

Abstract

This study examines the attitude of teachers toward corporal punishment and their behavior in punishing students corporally at secondary school level. For the purpose of data collection questionnaires were developed and administered to 48 teachers and their students randomly selected from 137 schools of District Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The data on behavior of teachers towards corporal punishment were collected from students of the respected teachers. The behaviors and attitude on corporal punishment of sampled teachers was measured. The data were analyzed by applying Pearson r through SPSS. Results of the study showed that there was moderate significant correlation between attitude of teachers and their behavior.