Teacher Practical Guidance:

Corporal Punishment

Category: External

Rank Order

97

Effect Size

-0.22

Achievement Gain %

-8

How-To Strategies

How-To Resources

Link – Program (Blueprints) “Generation PMTO”

References

Poalucci, E. & Violato, C. (2004). A meta-analysis of the published research on affective, cognitive, and behavioral effects of corporal punishment. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 138(3), 197-221. Link

Corporal Punishment

DEFINITIONS

DATA

  • 3 Meta-analysis reviews

  • 36 Research studies

  • 977,000 students in studies

  • 2 Confidence level. Hattie (2023) p. 127

QUOTES

“What’s wrong with a short smack to enhance learning? Quite a lot when you look at the research on effects! Paolucci & Violato (2004) identified 70 studies and found a negative impact of 0.33 ( -12%) impact on achievement. These results were not moderated by who did the spanking, whether the child was male of female, SES, or age. There is a lot wrong with spanking.”   Hattie (2023) p. 140