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Students' Attitudes and Conduct have a Negative Impact on any Learning Environment

Sonam Dendup

Department of Civil Engineering, College of Science and Technology

ACS101

Karma Yangdon

May 16, 2022

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Students' Attitudes and Conduct have a Negative Impact on any Learning Environment

"A long-term structure of beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral inclinations toward socially

significant things, organizations, events, or symbols" is what an attitude is defined as (Hogg &

Vaughan, 2005). Negative attitudes will manifest themselves in negative behavior and the

environment is negatively impacted by students' attitudes and actions. It is because it has an

impact on students’ academic performance, hamper teacher-student relationships and make

students to lose their opportunity to learn fundamental knowledges.

Academic attainment of students is influenced by one’s attitude and conduct as well. The

capacity to learn and the learning environment of other students can be impacted by a student's

unacceptable attitude and behavior. Sabel (2006) defines attitude as "the embodiment of one's

identity within the framework of ideas, beliefs, and behaviors which makes a tremendous

difference in any field." And hence attitudes and behavior of students toward learning have a

huge impact on their learning outlook. According to Hijazi and Naqvi (2006), assessing students'

academic achievement is challenging since attitude and behavior to learning have an impact on

their performance. Moreover, student’s learning attitudes affected not only how much education

one received, but also how much education one sought, indicating that one must change their

attitudes toward academic accomplishment. So, the first step in improving pupils' negative

attitudes toward learning is to understand the factors that contribute to them and how others are

negatively impacted. And knowing how the learning environment and external motives in the

learning process, as well as one’s interest are heavily influenced by learners' attitudes toward

learning, one should not demonstrate undesirable behavior and attitude.

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Moreover, the relationship between a teacher and his students is one of the most

influential factors in a learning environment. Students' negative attitudes and behavior will

hamper teacher-student interactions. The teacher-student interaction has been established as a

key determinant in student learning and academic success. Teachers contribute significantly to

education by assisting students in achieving their objectives. According to Cook et al. (2005),

most of the students do not spend enough time with one’s teacher and are not having proper

connection, thereby learners tend to misbehave during lecture like talking unnecessarily or being

rude to lecturer which interrupt in the learning process. Furthermore, attitudes and misconduct of

students can cause serious issue for oneself. Academic success of learner is aided by positive

teacher-student connections. Negative teacher-student relationships can cause serious issues for

students. Students' sentiments about teachers, whether positive or negative, can also influence the

teacher's behavior toward them. Additionally, both instructors and learner are affected by terrible

attitude and conduct. Deviant pupils may be expelled, sanctioned, penalized if their acts

jeopardize the school, its staff, or its students. Therefore, students must behave well and have to

maintain positive relationship with teachers to create safe and sound learning environment.

Students that have a negative attitude and behave badly miss out on learning vital facts.

Learners' attitudes toward learning have a big influence on their goal-setting abilities, problem-

solving abilities, learning beliefs, internal and external incentives, and, most crucially in gaining

fundamental information. The majority of students acquire the fundamentals via their learning

environment. Learner attitudes have an impact on individual degrees of learning. Motivated

learners who have a positive mindset will succeed and learners with bad attitudes (demotivated

learners) will struggle to acquire even the essentials, rather than succeeding (Janssen, S., &

O'Brien, M., 2014). The way a student behaves can affect her ability to study as well as the
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learning environment for other students. Disruptive students that intimidate other students, chat

during lectures, or force the teacher to interrupt lecture to reprimand them can have a detrimental

influence on the entire classroom and teacher may have to spend more time on behavioral

control, lowering the amount of time they can spend teaching and students gets less time in

learning. So, students must behave well and demonstrate positive attitude to get more time in

learning.

To conclude, students' unsatisfactory attitudes and conduct have a negative impact on

any learning environment. A disruptive student is one who purposefully causes a disruption in

class that interferes with the teacher's capacity to educate the class and other students' ability to

learn. A disruptive conduct can have a negative influence not only on the individual but also on

the learning environment and it discourage, limit, and even prevent from learning, growth, and

positive change. Furthermore, teacher-student connections are harmed and it foster serious issues

that can negatively impact the student. And learners will lose out on important skills

development opportunities due to one’s unacceptable attitude and conduct. Thus, one need to

maintain good behavior and positive attitude to have a peaceful learning environment.
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Reference Material

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Hijazi & Naqvi. (2006). ResearchGate. Retrieved from Factors Affecting the Student's

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Janssen, S., & O'Brien, M., (2014). "Disentangling The Effects of Student Attitudes and

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Final essay marking rubric

Name: Sonam Dendup Class: 1C
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