| The study was designed to determine where differences in attitudes toward discipline remedies may have occurred among vocational agriculture students, vocational agriculture teachers, and school principals. The study samples were selected from the mid-western states of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Missouri. The sample was randomly selected and consisted of 68 vo-ag students, 85 vo-ag teachers, and 88 school principals. Each group proved to be independent and homogeneous. Discipline situations served as the dependent variables, whereas, state lines, years of experience, and background served as the independent variables. The response to each discipline situation served as the criteria used to measure attitudes toward discipline. By selecting one of ten remedies for selected discipline situations, group attitudes were tested for differences.;It was found that principals and students disagreed on discipline remedies forty-six percent of the time where principals proved to possess a more severe discipline attitude than students. Principals also disagreed with vo-ag teachers forty-six percent of the time and once again principals proved to possess a more severe discipline attitude. Vo-ag teachers and students disagreed almost eight percent of the time where students tended to possess a more severe discipline attitude. |
