High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Discipline
The 2006 teachers' perceptions data indicated that most indiscipline in school is low level but that this is regularly experienced by teachers. Data below represent reports by teachers of behaviour that occurred at least once in their classrooms during the one week period of the survey:
| Primary | Secondary |
|---|
Talking out of turn | 98% | 99% |
Hindering or distracting others | 85% | 95% |
Making unnecessary (non-verbal) noise | 85% | 88% |
Pupils leaving their seat without permission | 81% | 80% |
Pupil on pupil verbal abuse | 60% | 74% |
Pupil on pupil physical aggression | 58% | 50% |
Pupil on pupil physical violence | 37% | 23% |
Pupil on teacher verbal abuse | 15% | 41% |
Pupil on pupil sexist abuse | 6% | 26% |
Pupil on pupil racist abuse | 5% | 11% |
Pupil on teacher physical aggression | 5% | 8% |
Pupil on teacher physical violence | 2% | 2% |
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