Gender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision-making behaviours of members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels

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dc.contributor.authorAloka, Peter J.
dc.contributor.authorBojuwoye, Olaniyi
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-09T07:15:49Z
dc.date.available2014-01-09T07:15:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated gender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision- making behaviours of members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels. Mixed Methods design was adopted for the study. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Study sample comprised 78 participants drawn from ten secondary school disciplinary panels. Participants comprised 45 males and 33 females, clustered into four age groups of-29 years (n=21), 30-39 years (n=28), 40-49 years (n=14), and 50-59 years (n=15); and six teaching experience categories of 1-5 years (n=33), 6-10 years (n=14), 11-15 years (n=5), 16-20 years (n=6), 21-25 years (n=8), and 26-30 years (n=12). Data analysis results revealed gender, age and experience differences in decision-making behaviours of members of disciplinary panels who participated in the study. Male participants were found to tend towards risky decision-making behaviours while female participants tended towards cautious decision-making behaviours. Younger and less experienced participants were also found to be risky in their decision-making behaviours also tended panel members made risky pre-disciplinary hearing decision-making behaviours, while their older and more experienced counterparts were more cautious. Based on the findings of this study it is recommended that, in order to cater for the diverse nature of student behaviour problems and to effectively manage the same, consideration must be given to delicate balance of age, gender and experience in the composition of members of a school disciplinary panel.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAloka, P. & Olaniyi, B. (2013). Gender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision-making behaviours of members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels. Asian Social Science, 9(10): 43-55en_US
dc.identifier.issn1911-2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/922
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherCanadian Center of Science and Education
dc.rights© 2013 Aloka and Bojuwoye; licensee Canadian Center of Science and Education.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v9n10p43
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectAgeen_US
dc.subjectDecision-making behavioursen_US
dc.subjectStudent behaviour problemsen_US
dc.subjectDisciplinary panelsen_US
dc.subjectSecondary schoolsen_US
dc.subjectTeaching experiencesen_US
dc.titleGender, age and teaching experiences differences in decision-making behaviours of members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panelsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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