The Effects of Absenteeism to the Academic Performance of the Grade 10 Students of Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School SY 2018-2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

According to Eneza (2015), absenteeism in school is the habit of staying away from school what problems or any reason for not attending classes. Absenteeism is a truant behavior that negatively affects the performance among students. Going to school regularly is crucially important for a student's education and social skills chronically absent students are at a disadvantage and both socially and academically. They missed out on critical stages of social interaction and development with their peer while simultaneously limiting their academic performance (Lorenamurcia, 2015). This research enables you to know what are those possible problem overcome by the students when they are not regularly attending their class and what will be the effect of it to their grade.

METHODS

This study used a descriptive research design. The participants of the study were the Grade 10 students of the Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School Year. To obtain a good representation of the students, the researchers decided to randomly picked 100 respondents who were under Grade 10 junior high school students. The researchers used survey forms as the instrument to gather all the important data which are included in the research study.

RESULTS

Majority of the Grade 10 junior high students agree that absenteeism has a bad effect on their academic performance in school because they fail to attend their classes and pass their assignments on time. They also find it difficult to understand their lessons once they are not around during the teacher's discussion.

DISCUSSIONS

It is evident from the result that absenteeism has a bad effect on the academic performance of the students. Therefore, they have to avoid this particular problem in able for them to excel in class. This is a realization for all the grade 10 students who want to move up into senior high school.