Students’ perception of incivility behaviors and its frequency of occurrence inside school environment

Classroom incivility has emerged as an increasing problem nowadays. Incivility can be
perpetrated by both students and teachers within the school environment. The aim of the study
was to assess the students‟ perception of incivility behaviors and its occurrence inside school
environment. Study design: A descriptive multistage study design. Settings: Six
governmental preparatory, secondary and technical schools at Tanta City affiliated to Ministry
of Education. Subjects: A random sample of 304 students at the previous mentioned settings.
Study tool: A structured questionnaire schedule that consisted of following parts: Socio
demographic characteristics of the study subjects and students‟ perception of classroom
incivility instrument. Results: about half of the studied students had low perception of total
incivility behaviors among school students. However more than one third of them had high
perception of teachers' incivility behaviors .While the highest percentage of them reported that
the frequency of occurrence of these behaviors was low. Highly significant correlation was
found between total levels of students perception to incivility behaviors and levels of its
reported frequency. Conclusion &recommendations: As general, the highest percentage of
the students had low level of perception of incivility behaviors inside school environment. So,
educational program to provide meaningful information regarding the types of uncivil
behaviors, contributing factors, the impact of uncivil behaviors, and the strategies used to
prevent and/or manage incivility in school environment was recommended.