Students Absenteeism And Truancy Of Students In Government General Secondary Schools Of Arada Sub-city

The main objective of the study was to assess the student’s absenteeism and truancy inrnGovernment general secondary schools in Arada sub city in Addis Ababa .Absenteeism andrntruancy are two of the major causes that are obstacles to the teaching learning process. Arndescriptive design was used to conduct the study. To achieve the objective, the study used arnqualitative as well as quantitative research method (mixed methodology). Questionnaires,rninterviews and Focused Group Discussion tools were used to collect the data. Of the studentsrnthat reside in the selected three schools, 200 students were selected at systematic randomrnsampling and were provided with the questionnaires in the selected schools. And, to take part thernfocus group and personal interviews, from the above respondents a total of 70 people werernselected using systematic random sampling method. The study used purposive sampling inrnselecting schools from the population to get sufficient information. The analysis of the data wasrnconducted using mixed methods. The analysis of the first stage, filled questionnaires werernanalyzed by tallying and calculating the frequencies and for the second stage data was analyzedrnusing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) techniques. And finally, comparison of quantitative andrnqualitative results was used. The results obtained in this research indicated that of the studentrnrespondents 85% were absent at least once and 65% were absent at least twice in the schoolrnyear. The result also indicated that both students and adult respondents blame personal factorsrnlike lack of school value and school factors like unattractive school environment for the student’srnabsence. As a conclusion, this study has shown that the problem of absenteeism is quiternprevalent in the selected schools education landscape. The study also has shown the majority ofrnthe causes for students absenteeism and truancy stem from personal causes of poor grades, lackrnof value towards education and the Friday mentality and the school causes of unattractive schoolrnenvironment, lack of proper school recreational areas and discouraging subjects. This study alsornsuggested that majority of the causes could be followed back to their root causes that deeply liernon their personal causes and the attributable school causes. And the major recommendations ofrnthe study were to empower students first, Make the school an attractive place to learn withrnenough sources of recreation and to conduct additional studies with larger and comparativernsamples to improve knowledge on the subject matter

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