Choice shifts in school disciplinary decision making: Analysis of age differences of panel members

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dc.contributor.authorAloka, P.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-01T12:18:06Z
dc.date.available2022-04-01T12:18:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractBackground: Decision making is critical to each organization and it requires the ability to find a possible balance between risky and cautious decisions. The Kenyan secondary schools are mandated by the Ministry of Education to manage students’ misbehaviors by the disciplinary panels. Aim: The present study investigated the choice shifts in disciplinary decision making in Kenyan secondary schools based on age groups of the panel members. Methods: The Quasi-Experimental Pretest-Posttest Design was adopted. The study targeted 360 teachers- members of disciplinary panels in 45 secondary schools in the Rongo sub-county of Kenya. A sample size of 78 members of disciplinary panels in 10 secondary schools was involved. This was 22% of the target population of members of disciplinary panels in the Rongo district. The choice shift in decisions was ascertained using the Modified Choice Dilemma Questionnaire. The validity of the tools was ensured by the expert judgment by two Kenyan psychologists, while the reliability was determined using the internal consistency method and an alpha of 0.695 was reported. Results: The results of the Multivariate Analysis Of Variance indicated that there were differences in choice shifts from the pre to post-disciplinary hearing decisions among the members of selected school disciplinary panels on the basis of their age groups (Wilk’s Lambda (λ) test: F (12, 188) = 7.40, P = 0.000, P < 0.05). Conclusion: It was concluded that the age of the members of disciplinary panels influenced the nature of choice shifts in decisions. It was recommended that principals should ensure that the membership of school disciplinary panels is broad-based.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2022en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citation1. Aloka, P. (2020). Choice shifts in school disciplinary decision making: Analysis of age differences of panel members. Open Psychology Journal, 13, 86 - 94.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32843
dc.journal.linkDOI: 10.2174/1874350102013010086, 2020, 13, 86-94en_ZA
dc.journal.titleOpen Psychology Journal,en_ZA
dc.journal.volume13en_ZA
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dc.rights© 2020 Peter J.O. Aloka.en_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.titleChoice shifts in school disciplinary decision making: Analysis of age differences of panel membersen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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