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ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of discipline on the academic performance of secondary school students in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study was conducted under three research objectives.

These were; to establish how the management of school rules influences students’ academic performance, to establish how time management influences students’ academic performance, to establish how the administration of punishments influences students’ academic performance.

The study employed survey research design particularly cross sectional survey design. Question was the main instrument of data collection in addition to interview guide and document review.

Simple percentage method and Chi-square statistical method were used to analyze the data. However, the findings of the study clearly showed that effective school discipline should be encouraged in controlling students’ behaviour thus affects students’ general academic performance.

The study also proposed some recommendations to deal with the wide spread and increasing levels of indiscipline among adolescent youths in secondary schools in Lagos.

By: gogieolfieoku December, 2016