school safety: perspectives of grade school and high school students
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School Safety: Perspectives of Grade School and High School Students of a Private Catholic School in Pasay. INTRODUCTION. School safety affects school climate. There are growing concerns to ensure student safety because of increasing violence in school - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
School Safety:
Perspectives of Grade School and High School Students
of a Private Catholic School in Pasay
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INTRODUCTION
• School safety affects school climate. • There are growing concerns to
ensure student safety –because of increasing violence in
school –School’s mission is to enhance
the school environment conducive to learning and growth
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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
• This study is aimed at assessing the school safety for prevention of violence. Specifically, it sought to answer the following problems:
1. To what extent do students feel safe? – In school?– On the way to and from school?– In their neighborhood?
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2. To what extent do students experience bullying in school:
– Physically bullied by other students?– Verbally bullied by other students?– Socially bullied by other students?– Electronically bullied by other
students?
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
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3.To what extent do the students witnessed bullying of their school mates inside the school?
4.What places inside the school do students consider as most at risk for bullying?
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
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5.What actions do students undertake whenever:–they experience bullying in the
school?–they witness bullying in the
school?
6.To what extent do teachers assist the bullied as perceived by the students?
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
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METHODOLOGY
• Descriptive Survey• Random Sampling• Statistical Methods
(Frequency Distribution, Mean Percentage Weighted Mean)
• Respondents
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INSTRUMENT USED
• Survey adopted from www.reportbullying.com/parenting-bullying-survey.htm. It is a student self-report questionnaire created to measure general school campus climate and personal safety-related experiences
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK School Climate
School Safety
School Rules Support Students’ Social Desirability and
Skills
Safe Environment
Students’ Perception
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RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem #1:
To what extent do students feel safe?
Location
YES NO SOMETIMES NOT SURE
Freq Total Freq Total Freq Total Freq Total
Safe at school 65 (64%) 2 (1%) 28 (28%) 4 (4%)
Safe on the way to & from 49 (49%) 9 (9%) 33 (33%) 8 (8%)
Safe in neighborhood 65 (64%) 2 (1%) 24 (24%) 4 (4%)
Table 1 Students’ Perception of School Safety
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Analysis
• Majority of the students (64%) feel that they are safe in school and in their neighborhood.
• Nearly 60% of the students feel safe across all areas: in school, on the way to school and in their neighborhood.
• Only one percent of the participants categorically denied that the inside campus is safe for them.
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RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 2
2. To what extent do students experience bullying in school:
• Physically bullied by other students?
• Verbally bullied by other students?• Socially bullied by other students?• Electronically bullied by other
students?
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Table 2 Kinds of Bullying Experienced by the
students & Its Frequency of Occurrence
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Never Once Everywk Often Don’t Knw0
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20
30
40
50
60
41 42
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14
23
45
14 14
3
52
24
11 11
6
55
28
8 8
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Frequency of Occurence Of Bullying
Physically
Verbally
Socially
Electronically
Frequency
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Analysis
• More than half of the respondents have NEVER been bullied socially, electronically
• Physical and verbal bullying are the most common types of bullying experienced by students but only ONCE
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• To what extent do the students
witnessed bullying of their
school mates inside the
school?
RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 3
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Table 3 Percentage of Students who have seen or witnessed
Bullying
GS HS AVERAGE
Have not seen 9 = 19% 4 = 8% 13 = 13%Have seen 38 = 80% 46 = 90 84 = 86%
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Analysis
• Majority of both GS and HS students have already witnessed /seen bullying (86%) and only 13% have not yet catched a glimpse of it
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• What places do students
consider as most at risk for
bullying?
RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 4
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Table 4. Identified School Places where there is at risk of bullying
GSHS Overall Weighted
Mean Interpretation
Areas off school property ,but close
3.27 3.45 3.36 Once
School Entrance /Exits 3.78 3.80 3.79 Once
Between classes 3.38 3.19 3.28 Once
During Class Hours 3.21 3.58 3.39 Once
Hallways 3.68 3.27 3.48 Once
Library 3.56 3.78 3.67 Once
Computer Rooms 3.79 3.74 3.76 Once
Gymnasium 2.5 3.52 3.01 Once
Comfort Rooms 2.86 3.52 3.19 Once
Canteen/Eating Area 2.80 3.58 3.19 Once
School Service 3.79 3.49 3.64 Once
During Extra Curricular Act. 3.58 3.50 3.54 Once
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• What actions do students undertake whenever:
– they experience bullying in the school?
– they witness bullying in the school?
RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 5
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Table 5a
Actions that Students Undertake
GS HS AVERAGE
Ignore20= 53% 19 = 41% 39 = 40%
Stood up and done something good
104 = 273% 124 = 269% 228 = 232%
Joined bullying 1 = 26% 9=20% 10 = 10%
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Table 5b Percentage of Students’ Reasons who did not do
anything the time they witnessed Bullying
HS (n=9)
GS (n=1
9)
AVERAGE (n=28)
Ranking
Didn’t want to get involved 4 = 44% 14= 74% 18 = 64%
1st
I was afraid 2 = 22% 2 = 11% 4 = 14%3rd
I didn’t know
I thought if I told someone, they wouldn’t do anything about it 1=5% 1 = 4%
4th
It isn’t right
Bullying wasn’t so bad
Being bullied deserved it
It wasn’t my business 2 = 22% 3= 16% 5 = 18%2nd
Did not want to get into trouble
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• To what extent do teachers
assist the bullied as perceived
by the students?
RESULTS & FINDINGSResearch Problem # 6
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Table 6 Support of Teachers to
Students who experience bullying
Overall Weighted
Mean
Interpretation
Notice 2.89 Often
Try to Stop bullying 2.34 Often
Ignore 3.40 Sometimes
Talk openly 2.83 Often
Make excuses for those who bully 3.14 Sometimes
Support those who are bullied 2.37 Often
Listen to both sides of the story 2.75 Often
Bully students themselves 3.27 Sometimes
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Table 7. Frequency of Communication to Parents by the School Personnel towards
Bullying
GS HSOverallWeighted Mean
Interpretation
Bullied another student
3.26 3.03 3.14 Often
Were a victim of bullying
3.34 2.98 3.16 Often
Do school personnel contact parent if you..?
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Table 8Students’ Perception of School rules related to
conduct and Behavior are fairly Reinforced
GS HS Overall Weighted Mean Interpretation
2.72 2.90 2.81 Often
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CONCLUSIONS
1 . Students’ feelings of school climate
is positive. Results revealed that
there were 64% believe that they
are safe in school and in
neighborhood
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• “Physical and Verbal bullying” is commonly experienced by GS and HS students but only ONCE
• Generally students perceived low potential of school danger or at risk in any of the school areas
CONCLUSIONS
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• Seventy Eight percent (78%)of the respondents are willing to get involved (e.g. to report highly sensitive information like bullying) is the social desirability measure or the indicator of student’s possible behavior from a private Catholic school
CONCLUSIONS
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RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Continue to integrate social competence in the group guidance or homeroom activities in all levels
2. Ensure that every student feels connected to at least one responsible and caring adult as one of the most important steps that educators can take to promote safe schools.
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• For the administrators to further study how to transform school from a community of passive bystanders (who do nothing because they don’t want to get involve) to a community of “upstanders” who responds responsibly to problems.
RECOMMENDATIONS
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