Annotated Bibliography On School Absenteeism

Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM1
Balkıs, M., Arslan, G., & Duru, E. (2016). The school absenteeism among high school
students: Contributing factors. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 16(6).
As per the name of title of the research, the main concept of the research work is to
investigate about the contributing factors that leads to absenteeism in high schools. Absenteeism
in school refers to the situation where a student pertains the habit of staying away from school
with or without any genuine reason. Hence, this research searches the answer of the question that
is why the high school students want to miss classes.
The research involves a cross-sectional design. For the research instruments the
research includes demographic information sheet and School Assessment Survey in the revised
Turkish version. Total 423 students from the high school studying in 9-12 grades were included
as the participants of the research work. All the students were taken from same ethnic
background with different socio-economic status. The mode of survey was paper-pencil survey.
All the participants finished the survey activity within 25 minutes.
According to the findings of the research, there are various factors that impacts on the
notion of high school absenteeism. The found factors are namely personal factors, family factors,
and academic achievements. The study noticed that students pertaining reverse academic self-
perception, adverse interest towards the faculties and entire school, deficiency in motivation are
prone to have the feature of absenteeism.
Pflug, V., & Schneider, S. (2016). School absenteeism: an online survey via social
networks. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 47(3), 417-429.
This research paper considers the concept of absenteeism as a significant problem for
social and public health. Hence, the research searches the answer of the research question