Intensive Home Visitation with Parents Involvement: An intervention to Address Pupils at Risk of Dropping Out of Grade-L

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Keeping learners in school is one of the tasks of teachers. In this connection, the researcher implemented an intervention to save her six (6) pupils who were at risk of dropping out through intensive home visitation and active parental involvement.It is concluded that intensive home visitation and active parental involvement have a significant improvement in the attendance of the recipients.

METHODS

Data were taken based on the records of School form 2. Pre-implementation data were based from July to September while post-implementation data were taken from November to January 2019.In analyzing the data gathered in the study, the researcher will make use of two statistical tools: Mean and Paired T-test. The mean was used to analyze the data from school form 2, and Pared T-test was employed to determine whether the significant increase in the attendance rate of the recipients before and after.

RESULTS

This investigation aims to reduce the incidence of absenteeism among the recipients who were observed to have a severe absenteeism problem. Based on the results, the 6 recipients incurred an average of 10.33 days absent per month based on 3-month data before the intervention was implemented. This degree of absenteeism suggests that these pupils reported to school a few times only every month. Not only that it could result in dropping out of school, learning on the part of these pupils could severely suffer. But after the intervention through an intensive home visit and parental involvement, the incidence of absenteeism dropped to a monthly average of 1.61 days. Conversely, the attendance rates of the recipients improved.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the results, it was found that the intervention contributed to the decrease of absenteeism and improved their academic performance.