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Article Name :
AN ANALYSIS ON IMPACT OF ABSENTEEISM ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author Name :
Prashant Thote , L .Mathew
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
GRT-5515
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Abstract :
India is one among the countries that have offered free education at primary and middle levels under the Right to Education act 2009. This called for need to conduct a study on relationship between student school absenteeism attendance and academic performance in secondary schools students . This study was set to look into student’s school attendance and academic performance. The study used descriptive survey design targeting secondary schools. The target population for study consisted of 69 male and 89 female teachers. In addition, there were 459 boys and 330 girl , from 8 public secondary schools were included . Simple random sampling was used to select 56 teachers . Data was collected using one questionnaire for teachers and document analysis sheet. A checklist was used to collect 363 student percentage scores in attendance and academic performance, used in this study. A correlation carried out, established that there is strong negative correlation between absenteeism and academic performance.
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