International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The study examined teachers towardthe use of corporal punishment on primary school pupils in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State, Nigeria. Implication on Classroom Assessment and Evaluation. The study adopted the Ex-post factor design and the population of this study was made of 9, 409 pupils six. The study adopted stratified random sampling and simple random sampling. With a sample of 282 (3%) pupils six were drawn from sixteen (12) public primary schools in Calabar Municipality Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. A researcher’s developed instrument titled: “Attitude of Teachers and Use of Corporal Punishment Questionnaire (ATUCPQ)” was used for data collection which was validated by experts in Educational Measurement and Evaluation in CRUTECH and the reliability of the instrument was determined using the Cronbach alpha coefficient. This method is used because Cronbach’s alpha provides the measure of the internal consistency among the items.Each sub-scale using the Cronbach alpha approach yielded a reliability coefficient ranging from 0.60 to 0.77. The procedure for data analysis was descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent and one-sample t-test). The findings revealed that teachers with positive attitudes differ significantly from those with negative attitudes in terms of the use of corporal punishment. The attitude of teachers towards corporal punishment in terms of fixed posturing is significantly negative. Finally, the attitude of teachers towards corporal punishment in terms of spanking is significantly negative. It was recommended among others that Heads of schools should advise teachers to spartanly use corporal punishment.

Keywords: Attitude, Teachers, Corporal, Punishment, & Calabar Municipality