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Sense of Futility as Subject of Disciplinary Action: Do Students with Negative Attitudes toward the Educational System Get Disciplined More Often?
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Degroote, Emma; Van Houtte, Mieke – Behavioral Disorders, 2022
School discipline research has demonstrated that the labeling of student behaviors as requiring disciplinary action is a selective process in which school staff take into account other factors than the characteristics of the behaviors. We argue that school staff react in a disciplinary way to students with negative attitudes toward the educational…
Descriptors: Discipline, Student Behavior, Negative Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Examination of American Indian/Alaska Native School Discipline Disproportionality Using the Vulnerable Decision Points Approach
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Gion, Cody; McIntosh, Kent; Smolkowski, Keith – Behavioral Disorders, 2018
The present study examined the extent to which racial disproportionality in office discipline referrals (ODRs) exists between American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) and White students in elementary (n = 140), middle (n = 67), and high (n = 48) schools. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to examine overall levels of ODR…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, White Students
State-Level Analysis of School Punitive Discipline Practices in Florida
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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin; Gurel, Sungur; Barber, Brian R. – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify statewide trends in school approaches to student discipline and examine the associations between punitive discipline practices and student, school, and local education agency (LEA) characteristics. In addition, we compared punitive disciplinary practices for schools and LEAs that do and do not allow…
Descriptors: School Districts, Punishment, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
Vulnerable Decision Points for Disproportionate Office Discipline Referrals: Comparisons of Discipline for African American and White Elementary School Students
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Smolkowski, Keith; Girvan, Erik J.; McIntosh, Kent; Nese, Rhonda N. T.; Horner, Robert H. – Behavioral Disorders, 2016
Racial disparities in rates of exclusionary school discipline are well documented and seemingly intractable. However, emerging theories on implicit bias show promise in identifying effective interventions. In this study, we used school discipline data from 1,666 elementary schools and 483,686 office discipline referrals to identify specific…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Elementary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Intervention
Office Disciplinary Referral Patterns of American Indian Students from Elementary School through High School
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Whitford, Denise K.; Levine-Donnerstein, Deborah – Behavioral Disorders, 2014
Office disciplinary referrals (ODR) and classroom exclusions among students from minority backgrounds have been a persistent concern for decades. The purpose of this dissertation was to assess disciplinary characteristics of American Indian students in special education. More specifically, the purpose was to determine (a) the rate at which…
Descriptors: Referral, Discipline Problems, American Indian Students, Elementary School Students
School Discipline Problems in Rural African American Early Adolescents: Characteristics of Students with Major, Minor, and No Offenses
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Farmer, Thomas W.; Goforth, Jennifer B.; Clemmer, Jason T.; Thompson, Jana H. – Behavioral Disorders, 2004
The authors examined school discipline problems in relation to academic and interpersonal characteristics of students in a middle school of a rural low-income community. The sample comprised 259 students (83 boys, 176 girls)--all of whom were African American--and reflected the community's public school attendance. School records were examined,…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Discipline Problems, Rural Schools, Early Adolescents