Effects of Absenteeism among Grade Three (3) Pupils to Learning Performances in Sto. Tomas North Central School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

One of the many factors that affect a pupil's performance in academic areas is absenteeism. It is defined as the pupils’ deliberate or habitual absence from going to school. Absenteeism affects pupils' school performances especially when they are in a group or team work for their assignments and projects. Group work will help develop the students' cooperative and ability to share and gain knowledge from their group mates. Thus absenteeism hinders the group mates of having the opportunity of gaining knowledge from the absent student. This study aimed to discover the effects of absenteeism among Grade 3 to their learning performances.

METHODS

There were 9 teachers and 388 pupils who served as the respondents of the study. They answered the questions on the survey questionnaire adopted and distributed by the researchers. They were the one to determine the performances of the students who engaged in habitual absences, and its cause. They were also asked on how this absenteeism affects the school performance. The instruments used in the study are Questionnaire Form where this instrument was adopted by the researchers to set up the socio-demographic profile of the student andteacher respondents. When the task is duly accomplished and the questionnaires were retrieved, processed, tabulated. It was submitted to the statistician for data analysis.

RESULTS

The study revealed that the following problems were encountered (1) Self-inquiry is the main reason for pupils to make an absence as what is being taken notice by other pupils. (2) Pupils' individual learning performance, both teacher and pupils' population agreed that they perform poor in class (3) Discipline was at low level and (4). Drop-out rate was high.

DISCUSSIONS

From the data gathered, it can be concluded that absenteeism was one of the factors affecting learning process among children that is why the following recommendations were given (1)The school administration with the parents of the concerned students must conduct an effective conference dialogue with the help of the findings of the study (2) Solutions to the different areas of difficulty due to absenteeism can be taken action by the responsible organizations and individuals in their respective field (3) Advisers and guidance counselor must be guided by the student's profile develop an activities properly to engage students to stay in school (4) For the parents, always guide and motivate the students to come to class regularly.