NDLI: Investigation of Students' Attendance Patterns and Measures in Place to Curb the Menace in Secondary Njoro Sub-County, Kenya

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Investigation of Students' Attendance Patterns and Measures in Place to Curb the Menace in Secondary Njoro Sub-County, Kenya

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Korir, Eliud Kipngeno Margaret, Bahati Charo Bett, Wesley Kipsang Thinguri, Ruth W.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Students' school attendance is still a major challenge in Kenya secondary levels of education. Therefore, this research analyzed student's school attendance and measures put in place to curb the problem in secondary schools in Njoro sub-county in Kenya. This study was set to look into: student's school attendance; causes of student school non-attendance and students performance in order to establish ways of mitigating this trend. Moreover, findings of this study were to assist the following individuals: students, teachers and the school administration such that it will assist students to know effects of school non-attendance; it will also assist teachers to be able to formulate ideas on how to reduce student's absenteeism.The study used descriptive survey design targeting all public secondary schools in Njoro sub-county. The target population for the study comprised of 169 male and 89 female teachers. There were more than 30 public secondary schools. Simple random sampling was used to select 8 schools and 156 teachers. Data was collected using questionnaires for teachers. Data collected was analyzed by descriptive statistics. Analyzed data was presented by use of frequency distribution tables. The researcher established that schools do not vary the ways of improving student's school attendance, since there is strong negative correlation between absenteeism and academic performance.
Starting Page	18
Ending Page	24
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.9790/0837-191071824
Volume Number	19
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol19-issue10/Version-7/D0191071824.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.9790/0837-191071824
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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