STUDENTS ' ASSESSMENT OF THE EXTENT AND PROSPECT OF THEIR PARTICIPATION IN MAINTENANCE OF DISCIPLINE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OSUN STATE,

School discipline limits and restricts certain behaviours and attitudes that are seen as harmful or going against school policies, educational norms and traditions among others. Maintenance of school discipline is premised on the fact that it correlates positively on schools ' tone, climate and more importantly, students ' achievement. The increased school enrolment have accentuated students ' disciplinary problems and burdens on school administrators so much that a systematic way of involving everybody including the students have become inevitable. This investigation therefore assesses the extent and prospect of students ' participation in the maintenance of school discipline in the public secondary schools in Osun state, Nigeria. Data were obtained from 500 stratified randomly sampled male and female students from ten public secondary schools in the state. The instrument was a 3-point Likert-type questionnaire designed and validated for the study by the researcher. Data were analyzed by using means and the t-test. The analysi