School Discipline, School Uniforms and Academic Performance.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of school discipline in achieving academic performance. The study aims to clarify the role of permissive vis a vis authoritative teaching styles with an overarching hypothesis that better discipline leads to better academic performance. The authors also probe whether uniformed students have better discipline. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment data on school discipline dimensions: students listening well, noise levels, teacher waiting time, students working well, class start time. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc analysis on five geographic groups established by Baumann and Winzar (2016) was applied to test for geographic differences (Europe, Americas, Far East Asia, Rest of Asia, Anglo Saxon cluster) in school discipline. ANOVA was further used to test for school discipline and academic performance. Third, t tests on fi.