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Title:
ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF COLLEGE TRAINEES’ DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS: THE CASE OF NEKEMTE COLLEGE TEACHERS’ EDUCATION

Authors:
Adugna Kenea Debela

Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to assess the current status of college trainees’ disciplinary problems in Nekemte College of Teacher Education (NCTE The data were collected from 10 administrators, 300 trainees, 22 instructors and 12 supportive staffs selected using purposive and simple random sampling techniques. Survey data were employed using five Likert scale and analyzed using statistical procedures in which frequency, percentage and standard linear regression were employed. The results indicated that majority of the respondents agreed with the presence of high disciplinary problems among college trainees, indicating high degree of positive regression (R2 ? 0.952 or 95.20%, adjacent R ? 0.861 (86.10%) indicating that the effect of test results explained by independent variable reflected high functional influence on dependent variables. Therefore, the findings confirmed that the current status of college trainees’ disciplinary problem was highly influenced by teachers, communities, family, peer-groups, college-related factors and handling mechanisms. Based on these findings, the researcher recommended that the college should organize and facilitate teachers’ meetings, conferences, visits other colleges, educational trainings and communicates with government and NGOs in providing valuable information to alleviate the college trainees’ disciplinary problems to make the attitude of teacher’s firm, fair and friendly for their learners.

Keywords:
Behavior, Current status, Disciplinary problems, Discipline, Factors, Mechanisms, Trainees.

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2022.5109

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