...Pampanga State Agricultural University Magalang, Pampanga A partial requirement in MAED 202 (Methods of Research) Bullying and Academic Performance of the Grade 7 students in Andres M. Luciano High School CECILIA G. TULABOT Master of Arts in Education Major in Educational Management Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction In schools, bullying occurs in all areas. It can occur in nearly any part in or around the school building, thought it more often occurs in recess, hallways, bathrooms, on school buses and waiting for buses, classes that require group work or after school activities. Bullying in school sometimes consist of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders, who, in some cases want to avoid becoming the next victim. School bullying is a widespread issue that affects secondary school students in three essential parts of their lives; psychologically, educationally and professionally. Bullying is a sort of aggressive behavior against others such as, verbal by calling nasty names, physical by kicking, pushing or tripping up and social by everyone stopped talking to you. Academic achievement is the first aspect which influences bullying at school. therefore, bullied children live within fear, self-blame, feel weak and it affects their personality traits and self-confidence, so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school....
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...School bullying is a widespread issue that affects youths seriously in three essential parts of their lives educationally, psychologically and professionally. Bullying is sort of aggressive behavior against others such as, verbal by calling nasty names, physical by kicking, pushing or tripping up and social by everyone stopped talking to you. Despite some children bully others without aware to the results of their actions but bullying reflects adversely on the victims' lives and leads to be victimization to several disorders like anxiety, depression, loneliness and lose their opportunity to have an ordinary life. However, bullied children are more likely to expose themselves to suicide. On the contrary, perpetrators have less impact on their lives. In my opinion, bullying at school has significant effects in whole children lives. The following essay will discuss the negative effects of school bullying and its consequences. Academic achievement is the first aspects which influence by bullying at school. Therefore, bullied children live within fear, self blame, feel weak and its affect their personality traits and self confidence so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school and tend to the truancy. Furthermore, they will lose their opportunities to participate with others or enjoy school activities. Hence, they will gain less academic performance and low educational attainment.There is a strong association between academic achievement and...
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...The Problem A. Introduction Introduction School bullying is a pervasive problem found in elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States and around the world. It can take many direct and indirect forms, including physical violence, name-calling, taunting, teasing, and malicious rumor-spreading and social exclusion. Once thought of as a normal part of growing up, school bullying is now widely recognized as a serious problem that must be met with systematic preventative efforts. This article examines the nature, prevalence, and effects of school bullying. Bullying is a rising concern that plagues many of our schools. It is important for schools to address the issue of bullying because a vast amount of research has found that it can have a negative effect on students in terms of academic achievement, social and emotional development, and overall life adjustment. There are lots of reasons why students are bullying other students. Sometimes they think, “If they can do that, I can also do that too!” Students may also think that if the members of their group are bullies they need to be too. Sometimes students are afraid that if they were not bully, someone else will bully them. They also become to let out their hurt and anger. Bullying doesn’t involve only those doing the bullying and those being bullied. Bullying also involves and affects the entire school. The 3 main groups that are affected by bullying are the students who are bullied, the students who bully...
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...Association (ASCA) was established. In 1958 the National Defense Education Act was passed, which increased training and hiring of school counselors. In 1964 NDEA Title A was passed, providing counseling to elementary schools. In 1997 ASCA published their National Standards, providing benchmarks for student’s competency in academic, career, and personal/social domains. In 2003 the ASCA National Model was published as a framework for school counseling programs it was revised in 2005 and 2012 (Erford, 2015). The collaborative model of school counseling is a cooperative process where the school counselor “helps others in the school community to think through problems and to develop skills that make them more effective in working with student” (Erford, 2015, p.35). Through this model the school counselor partners with parents, educators, and community resources and organizations to promote the career, academic, and personal/social development of all students. The role of the professional school counselor is evolving to a new vision, in which the school counselor focuses on the whole school not just individual student concerns, a focus on student academics and student achievement. School counselors are focusing using data to create programs, involvement...
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...This research article identifies correlations between peer victimization and academic adjustment through moderation by gender and mediation by perceived peer support (Wang, Iannotti, Luk, 2011). The authors reference a number of previous studies that found similar relationships. One of those previous studies found that there was significant association between peer victimization and low academic achievement (Nakamoto and Schwartz, 2010). Another study was cited that gave evidence that the support of peers positively correlated with academic achievement (Roeser, Eccles, Sameroff, 1998). The authors indicate that despite previous studies, there is still much that is unknown about the “factors that moderate or mediate the negative influence of victimization on academic adjustment” and on how classmate support may affect the relationship between peer victimization and academic adjustment (Wang, Iannotti, Luk, 2011). The participants in this study were 7th and 8th grade students that were part of the World Health Organization’s 2005/2006 Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) stud, which represented multiple nationalities and included an oversampling of minority students such as African American and Hispanic. Data was used from 3,436 students, all from the United States, of which 47.8% were males, 49.7% were seventh graders, 41.8% Caucasian, 18.3% African-American and 26.4% Hispanic. The mean age was 13.6 years (Wang, Iannotti, Luk, 2011). Three different hypotheses were...
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...What is bullying. Anyone familiar with aggressive behavior should agree that aggressive behavior by children is considered an important a social behavioral problem all across the U.S and needs to be addressed inside and outside the school environment. Through research, the prevention of such behavior has shed light to this specific type of aggressive behavior and shifted researchers thinking and understanding of this bullying behavior. Between 2000 to present, there have been well over 600 peer-reviewed articles on bullying, as opposed to the past, between 1980-2009, 190 peer-reviewed articles. Bullying is characterized as aggressive behavior and violent behavior more prevalent in schools, where the perpetrator in some capacity attempts...
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...Historically, in cases of peer-to-peer abuse, whether physical or emotional, the blame is laid on the belligerent boys or girls. The bystanders who hover, chime in, or squirm on the outskirts of the 'mean' action are dismissed as irrelevant. Also dismissed are those who spread the tale of the victim's woe through the grapevine. In truth, however, this supporting cast plays a significant role in peer-to-peer violence....Bystanders make or break bullying episodes." (Our Children) This article examines the role of the bystander in bullying incidents and outlines some strategies to help encourage young bystanders to act in these situations. OUR CHILDREN Nov./Dec. 2003, pp. 8-10 Reprinted with permission from National PTA. Article originally appeared in OUR CHILDREN magazine, Vol.29, No.3, November/December 2003 pp. 8-10. The Bystander: A Bully's Often-Unrecognized Accomplice By Margaret Sagarese and Charlene C. Giannetti A few years ago, an upstate New York newspaper headline noted that 60 high school girls and boys, ages 14 to 21, faced criminal prosecution for leering at and cheering on two brawling 15-year-old boys. The headline and accompanying story startled us. What we found amazing about this news item was that the police were holding "the human boxing ring" accountable. The "innocent bystander" status usually accorded people on the periphery of such violence was ruled out. The furor over the Glenbrook North High School (Northbrook, Illinois)...
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...The bystander effect is defined as the idea, “that individuals are less likely to exhibit prosocial behavior during an emergency situation if other bystanders are present than if they are not. The bystanders do not want to get involved so they continue to let the bullying happen. Machackova, Dedkova, and Mezulanikova (2015) state, “When participants were practically the sole witnesses, they were more supportive than when there were more witnesses” (p. 97). The problem with bystanders not standing up for others is the cycle will then perpetuate itself. Brody and Vangelisti (2015) have found, “research on the bystander effect, the number of bystanders to an online bullying incident was negatively related to participants intervening to stop the incident. Furthermore, the number of bystanders was positively associated with participants’ tendency to passively observe the incident” (p. 12). With this in mind, bystanders may be afraid to come forward and this will in turn create more problems with bullying. While the bystander effect is seen directly in classic bullying cases, students that become bystanders when it comes to social media, internet, and cyber issues make it even harder to catch a bully. Students can use the confidentiality of the screen to not be known. It is easy set up a fake account to see what others are doing and there is no way that other students will know that there is anyone else there. The issues of the bystander effect will help the study that...
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...Cyber Bullying in High School Aby Kuruvilla July 2, 2013 Cyber Bullying in High schools As advancement of technology increases with items such as smart phones, tablets and laptops for the use of social media sites over the past several years, so has the incidence of harassment and bullying with teens. New technologies offer beneficial as well as consequential opportunities for social connections and communication in a given community as across the world. According to “stopbullying.gov”, cyber bullying is referred to as “bullying that takes place using electronic technology… includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites.” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2011). While cyber bullying in high school is an easy way for bullies to attack their victims without having to be seen, it continues to be a serious problem among teenagers and should be strongly combated. Cyber bullying occurs in many different forms such as cruel and harsh messages via emails and texts messages, posting vicious messages and pictures on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace etc. Other forms include making unwanted and negative statements in chat rooms, and even breaking into someone else’s personal accounts to send damaging messages to hurt them or someone else. (Cyberbullying Research Center, 2004) Who Does Cyber bullying Affect? According...
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...Effects of Bullying A sick teen in the nurse's officeBullying can affect everyone—those who are bullied, those who bully, and those who witness bullying. Bullying is linked to many negative outcomes including impacts on mental health, substance use, and suicide. It is important to talk to kids to determine whether bullying—or something else—is a concern. Kids Who are Bullied Kids who are bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues. Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience: Depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy. These issues may persist into adulthood. Health complaints Decreased academic achievement—GPA and standardized test scores—and school participation. They are more likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school. A very small number of bullied children might retaliate through extremely violent measures. In 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied. Back to top Kids Who Bully Others Kids who bully others can also engage in violent and other risky behaviors into adulthood. Kids who bully are more likely to: Abuse alcohol and other drugs in adolescence and as adults Get into fights, vandalize property, and drop out of school Engage in early sexual activity Have criminal convictions and traffic citations as adults Be abusive toward their romantic...
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...In a study conducted by Neil Humphrey and Wendy Symes (2010) they studied how different sources and levels of social support relate to bullying among such pupils. The objectives of this study were to identify the role social support plays in determining the pupils response to bullying and identify barriers to the development and utilization of social support where bullying occurs (Humphrey and Symes, 2010). Bullying is an issue that many if not all schools battle with continuously, and school systems should not put the individuals with ASD who “lack social communication, and social interaction across multiple contexts (NIMPH)” into classroom settings where they are viewed as odd, increasing their likelihood of being bullied by their classmates. The study examined 36 individuals with from 12 different schools who have ASD. In the study conducted, research found that the incorporation of social support could be useful toward the inclusion of individuals with ASD. Social support is defined as “a multidimensional concept that includes the support actually received and the sources of the support, social support is recognized as important resource that protects children from the negative effects of life stressors” (Humphrey and Symes, 2010). Including social support helps increase the confidence and social abilities of students with...
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...Disability is a form of ability that restricts a person’s capacity in carrying out a task. The Disability Discrimination Act categorizes disability through a physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory or neurological impairment. The process of education serves to encourage students to reach their potential, through an understanding that everyone has the right to best possible human experience. Education has a duty to help and serve students overcome restrictions of history, provide an equal field for the growth of all students. Schools within Australia serve to provide a means for students with disabilities to overcome impairments and strive to their best possible future. Testing provides an adequate mechanism for measuring student’s results. Students that exhibit learning difficulties (LD), the result of disabilities, are more likely to be prone to test anxiety. A study into testing procedures in the Learning Disability Quarterly indicate ‘results of the present study suggest that LD children’s schools problems may in some cases reflect motivational factors involving fear of failure…’ (Bryan, Sonnefeld & Grabowski, 1983) The results show that ‘test anxiety is relatively strong in the learning disabled child and therefore should be addressed....’ Anxiety stems from a feeling that a person is inadequate to perform a task. It seems reasonable that some disabled children would suffer problems in testing due to conditions such as autism. Autism Spectrum Disorder classifies...
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...basis. One of the most apparent issues would be the lack of parental involvement. This element influences both the school climate, as well as the community environment. In my years of teaching, I have found that students, who have parents that are detached from their school life, have difficulty remaining motivated and engaged in their education. Abstractly speaking, face to face bullying, as well as cyber-bullying also burden the demographics of my school. As teachers and administrators, we address the predictors of bullying and victimization on an ongoing basis, but the issue still exists. As a result of the lack of parental involvement and bullying/peer-pressure, teen pregnancy, within the district, has been on the rise. According to Gilbert, teen mothers are twice as likely to drop out of high school. This bit of research shows the increasing need to combat this issue. Within the context of this analysis, the factors mentioned above will be addressed and discussed. According to Colombo, research has suggested that the missing link in educational equity, in terms of educational achievement, is parental involvement. Community and parental involvement are important in educating a child and ensuring success in their educational future. Since parents and caregivers are the first “teachers” of students, they have the most impact on their lives. The need arises at our school when it is difficult to make contact with parents for various reasons. For instance, participation...
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...To: Parents of students (general audience). From: Anthony Garin. Bullying and its regulation in Canada. Date: April 6, 2015 Anti-bullying laws and regulations have long been a topic of debate in legislative institutions. Although it is not until relatively recently that bullying has become a spotlight of legal and ethical scrutiny in local context. Most likely it is an effect of a trend of deeper enquiry into social fabric and increased social awareness. There is even an established bullying awareness week. As a result of that, and a questionable position of bullying regulations or in some cases their absence, there needs to be a change to keep up in the regulating aspect of bullying treatment. Through presented problems and arguments we...
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...Bullying in schools can be prevented. Bullying can be prevented by building a community of support , modeling appropriate responses and monitor your child online. In order for people to get a much understanding of bullying , one must understand what bullying is. Bullying has been an exceeding issue over the years. Bullying is an aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power balance. It can include actions such as making threats , spreading rumors or attacking someone physically or verbally. Bullying is a very serious problem with all children. Kids who are bullied are mostly feeling bad about themselves and depressed, to where they may not want to attend school anymore. The first way bullying can be...
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