Pengurusan Disiplin Pelajar

The purpose of this study is to identify whether there is significant correlation
between students, school, parents and community factors with the effectiveness of
student discipline management. The informations about student discipline
management were also collected. The informations collected included discipline
teachers’ demography, discipline control approach and the problems faced by
discipline teachers. Extracurricular activities that can help improve students’
discipline and the discipline teachers’ perspective about their duties were also
studied. About 54 discipline teachers from 14 schools in Kubang Pasu and Kota
Setar District were involved in this study. The systematic sampling were used to
choose the samples. The pilot study for the questionaire show the reliability
coefficients Alpha Cronbach 0.9352. The Statistical Packages For The Social
Sciences (SPSS) Edition 7.5 were utilised to analyse the data. Correlation test
shows there is significant and positive relationship between the students, school,
parents and community factors and the effectiveness of student discipline
management. The study indicated that students, school, parents and community
factors are not barriers to improve the effectiveness of student discipline
management. However, some negative answers from the questionaire show that
discipline teachers face a few problems with their duties. School factors has the
strongest relation with the effectiveness of student discipline management
followed by parents, community and students factors. The study also found that
active role played by principals, coherent actions, caning and good relation
between school and parents or communities can minimize students’
misbehaviour. The major problems faced by discipline teachers are stubborn
students, overloaded duties and lack of time to run their duties. Although the
duties are hard, majority of discipline the teachers feel happy, satisfied and secure
with their job as a discipline teacher.