Abstract:
Classroom discipline is one of the most thought-provoking issues in modern education.Studies has it
that students’ classroom misconduct interferes with teaching and learning and is believed to be a
precursor to later school dropout and similar negative social outcomes. This study aimed at
investigating the knowledge of pre-service teachers of Colleges of Education in Ghana on the
concept of behaviour modification techniques in the classroom. A cross-sectional survey design was
used for the study. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain a sample
size of three hundred and sixty participants for the study. Data was collected using behaviour
modification questionnaire developed by the researchers and analysed using SPSS data analysis
software. The results show that most of the participants have insufficient knowledge on behaviour
modification techniques for classroom management even though they exhibited strong knowledge
on few of the items. At 5% level of significance, there was virtually no significant difference found to
exist in pre-service teachers’ knowledge of behaviour modification practices in terms of gender.
