Reducing Student Absenteeism through Strategic Reward and Penalty System among Senior High Students of Dagatan National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Absenteeism of the students is one of the very crucial problems of the school which could give many bad effects to the students. It can also affect the parents as well as the school. There are many reasons why students become absenteeism which needs appropriate intervention in order to pursue to go to school like lack of financial, family problems, long distance of the school from the home etc. Strategic reward and penalty system are some ways done by the researchers which could reduce student absenteeism in Dagatan NHS.

METHODS

The researchers used quasi-experimental and triangulation method. It also used purposive sampling which there were twenty-five(25) students-absentees qualified for the intervention. Furthermore, the percentage and a weighted arithmetic mean were the statistical tools to identify the result of the study. Later, twelve (12) weeks or three (3) months (January -March 2018) intervention was planned for the identified students and rewards were attached for them for the perfect attendance. After the weeks of intervention, the post-observation through school form 2 and school form 4 was carried out to determine the frequency of absenteeism among senior high school students.

RESULTS

Results revealed that the level of performance in the class of the students-absentees is almost poor according to the computed grades by the teachers. It means that there was a great effect of being absenteeism in the class to the performance of the students because there are some lessons, activities, written etc. that were not undertaken by the respondents due to their absences in the class.

DISCUSSIONS

Findings of the study are the following: the level of performance of the students-absentees during pre-test observation was low level based on the documents came from the teachers and advisers. After intervention, there was a greater change in reducing students' absenteeism. It means that the intervention made by the researchers were efficient and effective. Furthermore, in the level of awareness of the consequences of students-absentees, the result was the present lesson could not understand very well because they need to understand first the previous lessons taught by the subject teachers; that the most problems of the students' absentees were lack of financial, family problems, and far distance of the school from their house.