Daily Reminding and Monitoring of Absences: An Intervention in Reducing Absenteeism of Grade IV Pupils
Keywords:
Intervention, absenteeism, decreaseAbstract
INTRODUCTION
This study investigated the effectiveness of Daily Reminding And Monitoring of Absences in Reducing Absenteeism Level of Grade IV Pupils to its 7 respondents who were Grade I V -Grapes pupils of Barobo Townsite Elementary School. Hence, the researchers crafted this action research to address the said problem properly and to test whether there is a significant difference in the Absenteeism level of the said pupils before and after the implementation of the said intervention.
METHODS
The researchers utilized the descriptive research design to measure the effectiveness in the implementation of the said intervention. In analyzing the data gathered in this study, the researchers made use of three statistical tools: Mean and Standard Deviation and the P-Value to analyze the attendance rate of the 7 pupils in level of significance before and after the intervention, whether or not it passes the standard based School Form 2 to determine whether or not there is a significant difference between their absences level of the said pupils before and after the intervention so as to gauge the effectiveness of the Daily Reminding And Monitoring of absences or the DRAMA intervention.
RESULTS
The researchers made an intervention that resulted in a decrease in the number and percentage of pupils absences level. From 7 pupils of the class, it lowered down to 2 pupils. o. From the mean of 28.86 to 56.14, from the standard deviation of 3.53 to2.27 and with the p-value 0.0001 after having applied the intervention, it can be inferred that there is a positive effect of the intervention to the pupils on the absences level in their Absenteeism.
DISCUSSIONS
Reviewing the result, it was found out that there is a significant difference in the interpretation of attendance rate level of the 7 identified pupils after exposure to the above-mentioned intervention and that the said intervention can help in addressing problems particularly in Absenteeism.
