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A Study of the relationship between Elementary School Teacher Discipline Style and Students’ Learning Achievement in Penghu County Abstract The study aims to explore the relationship between elementary school teacher discipline style and students’ learning achievement in Penghu County, decipher the current state of the Penghu county elementary school “teacher discipline style” and “students’ learning Achievement”, and to compare the differences from background variants, analyze correlation and predictability of the Penghu County elementary school teacher discipline style and students’ learning achievement.
The study’s research method pertains to adopting the questionnaire surveying method and document analysis method by focusing on the Penghu County elementary schools’ fifth and sixth graders and teachers as the study subjects, polling 15 schools , 30 teachers and 403 schoolchildren to undergo the questionnaire survey, and the results derived are analyzed using statistical methods, including the median, standard variation, independent average sampling count t test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, Multiple Regression Analysis of variance and the like.
The conclusion of study derives is as follows, 1. Good discipline can create the best interaction mode between the teacher and the student. 2. The students’ learning achievement should focus on the support for students, not on enforcement. 3. The "support-type" discipline style used by elementary school teachers performs best for students' learning achievement. 4. Different ages, years of service, school sizes and school districts of teachers are apparently different in support-type discipline style. 5. Different genders and school sizes of teachers are apparently different in abdicate-type discipline style. 6. Different genders, ages, years of service, school sizes and school districts of teachers are apparently different in negotiate-type discipline style. 7. Different years of service, highest degrees, school sizes and school districts of teachers are apparently different in enforce-type discipline style. 8. Different genders, ages, years of service, highest degrees and school districts of teachers are apparently different in students’ Chinese learning achievement. 9. Different genders, years of service, highest degrees, school sizes and school districts of teachers are apparently different in students’ Mathematics learning achievement. 10. Students’ learning achievement performs better as elementary school teachers use support type discipline style. 11. Using high Supporting teacher discipline style will help to improve students’ learning achievement.
The researcher proposed suggestions as references for Penghu County elementary school teachers and education-related personnel research reference, according to analysis to literature review and conclusions mentioned above.
Keywords: Discipline style, learning achievement
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