Improving Class Attendance of Group B Foundation at GBS

This project report aims to improve the low attendance rate of group B foundation class at GBS. It includes a literature survey, reasons for low attendance, process to improve attendance, and effect of improvement process on students. The report suggests implementing an instructional model, creating a positive culture, maintaining communication between parents and teachers, and using sequential lesson plans to improve attendance. Further research through primary research is recommended.

Project Report
On
Improving the class attendance of group B foundation at GBS.
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Table of Contents
Introduction:.......................................................................................................................3
Background....................................................................................................................3
Reason for choosing the topic.......................................................................................3
Aim of the work..............................................................................................................3
How the aim will be achieved.........................................................................................3
Literature Survey:..............................................................................................................3
Reason of low attendance of students...........................................................................4
Process to improve students’ attendance......................................................................5
Effect of improvement process on students...................................................................6
Conclusion:........................................................................................................................7
Recommendation for further work:....................................................................................8
References.........................................................................................................................9
Appendix A.......................................................................................................................10
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Introduction:
Background
According to the attendance record, the high school group B Foundation has low
attendance in comparison to others. The class also has a low pass rate and students
are also not submitting their assignment on time. This factor may effect on the
reputation of GBS.
Reason for choosing the topic
The reason for choosing this theme is that the students in my group (group B
foundation) do not attend the classes. They have low pass rates and do not submit the
assignments on time. I would like to find the reason and find a decision how to improve
it.
Aim of the work
The aim of this project is to improve group B foundation class attendance at GBS, so as
to increase submission and pass rates.
Objectives of the project are:-
1. To improve the class attendance
2. To carry out some research on how to achieve it
3. To make some recommendations on how to improve the attendance
How the aim will be achieved
The aim of the project will be achieved by collecting data about these factors through
secondary research:
Reason for low attendance of students
Process to improve students’ attendance
Impact of education process on attendance
Effect of improvement process on students
Literature Survey:
In order to make effective research on how to improve attendance rate among group B
foundation students the project will use the process of secondary research. There are
several secondary data sources such as books, journals, articles, academic websites,
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and magazines which will be useful to gather useful information about the project topic.
The research project will find out reason for low attendance and improvement strategy
against the same. It will also focus on impact of present education process on students
and effect of improvement strategy on them to make productive conclusion of the
project.
Reason for low attendance of students
According to Gbadamosi, (2015), there are a different reason for low attendance in high
schools. Most of the high schools are facing the problem about unhealthy climate within
the class. There is also a problem about proper relationship between teachers and
students. Teachers are not giving importance to making good relationship with students
and increase their interest in education. Lewis, (2015) also stated that high schools are
not giving importance to truancy laws. Rate of absenteeism increase due to the lack of
enforcement of truancy laws. Students also have less awareness about the truancy
policy of the high school, which also makes the student thoughtless about attendance in
high school. Balu & Ehrlich, (2018) also suggested that sometimes students fall behind
due to different reasons such as less interested in the course. They also think that they
will not be able to catch up the course so that they do not attend the class regular basis.
As per view of Landin & Pérez, (2015), there is a problem about coursework, students
like to participate in challenging coursework than the simple one. Less challenging
coursework increase boredom about the course and they drop their classes to reduce
the boredom.
There are also other reasons behind low attendance in high schools. Tobin, (2016),
observed that sometimes high school makes violence with their students and force them
to align them with the education process. Students who have excluded from high school
due to high school infractions they do not like join the high school again it also increases
the rate of absenteeism in high school. Quin, (2017), observed that illness is also one
of the vital reason that increases absenteeism in high schools. Sometimes students also
do not attend the class due to the ill family member as they take care of those
members. Pope, (2016), stated that there are many students from financially week
families and they go to work and support their families so that they are not able to
maintain their attendance in high school.
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Infrastructure of the high school is also one of the important aspects that effect on rate
of attendance of students. Lobo & Gurney, (2014), mentioned that students are like
good environment at the high school and poor condition of high school building reduce
the students’ interest to go to the high school and increases the possibility of
absenteeism in high school. There is another reason that increases absenteeism in high
schools. Quin, (2017), observed that many high school students are addicted to alcohol
or other drugs and they drop their classes due to addiction. Some parents are also not
so serious about school attendance of their child. It is also a reason for an increment of
absenteeism in high schools.
Process to improve students’ attendance
Based on view of Gbadamosi, (2015), high school authority has to implement some
strategies to reduce the rate of absenteeism within the school. The school should
develop the instructional model which will be able to focus on the quality of teaching and
learning classes. McConnell & Kubina Jr, (2014), suggested that the positive school
culture is also important to create good environment at the school which will influence
the student to spend time within the school. The school authority also can create the
safe environment for student by being thoughtful about all the school members.
Gershenson, (2016), also suggested that most of the school members do not show
concern for those students who have been absent for long time due to any problems.
However, teachers should be more concern about those students who have been
absent and returned to the school to gain knowledge. Landin & Pérez, (2015),
mentioned that high school authority can implement the process of students appraisal
based on punctuality and attendance to increase interest of students about perfect
attendance. According to Lewis, (2015), development of clear and strong attendance
policy with a realistic target is effective to improve attendance in high schools. The
authority also has to develop a clear message for students about importance of
attendance to improve their academic scores. Gershenson, (2016), stated that
sequential lesson is important to complete any chapter within the given time period and
teachers plan every chapter through a sequence, so the teachers have to increase
awareness about sequential lesson plan. Teachers also have to provide the information
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about how the sequential lesson enhance students’ knowledge it will increase student
interest in coursework.
According to O'Flaherty & Phillips, (2015), open communication between students and
parents increase students attendance by engaging them. Student engagement is the
most important aspect the makes a positive effect on attendance rate of students.
Tobin, (2016), also stated that high school has to employ strict rule about assignment
submission. Strict rule about submission is the effective strategy to force student for
timely submission. High school authorities also have to focus on students’ data to plan
about learning activities. Students from different age like different process to gain
knowledge, some students like to read or some prefer practical activities. Balu &
Ehrlich, (2018), also mentioned that proper monitoring of students attendance is useful
to reduce absenteeism rate. Monitoring process will help to track the change in
students’ attendance early and motivate them to join the class. Tobin, (2016) argue that
only view of school authorities about absenteeism cannot improve the attendance rate,
rather the school has to focus on students’ view about non-attendance. It will help the
school to identify the actual reason of increased rate of absenteeism.
Effect of improvement process on students
It has observed by Bloom & Unterman, (2014), that most of the high school authorities
have used the process of instructional model to supervise the quality of teaching. It has
affected positively on high school students they become more interested to join their
classes. Quin, (2017) argues that quality of classes has not made positive impact of
attendance as most of the students do not miss their classes due to teaching quality.
Pope, (2016), also supports that view and stated that safe and good environment is the
more important aspect that makes positive impact on student attendance. Students look
for good environment first then they focus on teaching quality. McConnell & Kubina Jr,
(2014), observed that good relation among students also effects on attendance of
school students if students feel comfortable within the class than they join classes more
willingly. Pope, (2016), mentioned that students appraisal on academic score also
improves attendance of high school students.
Awareness about the impact of school classes on academic score influences students’
to attend classes and increase their academic score. Based on observation of
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Gershenson, (2016), a strong and clear attendance policy helps the school to gain
proper attendance from students. Students become concerned about school policies as
the strict school policies force them to maintain their class attendance. Schools also
implement sequential lesson to reduce absenteeism, however, Mills & Wolf, (2017),
stated that this process is not as effective on school students as they have less
awareness about effect of a sequential lesson on their academic performance. They
also have less information about sequential lesson and effectiveness of this to complete
chapters within given time.
Gershenson, (2016), mentioned that the process of open communication between
students and teachers increases attendance of school students. Students feel more
engage with their school as they get positive behaviour from their teachers and do not
like to miss their classes for any mere reason. O'Flaherty & Phillips, (2015), revealed
that assignment submission is also the area which is related to attendance. More
engaged students have the passion for their classes and other educational activities like
assignment submission. Good relation between teachers and students increase interest
about assignment submission on time to get an appraisal from the teacher. Quin,
(2017), argues that strict rules about assignment submission reduce the quality of
students’ assignment and they get low score than the expectation. The strategy of strict
rules about assignment submission effect negatively on attendance as the students like
to complete their assignment rather attending classes. Lewis, (2015), suggested that
process of student view about school attendance is effective to increase attendance
rate within the class. In this process, students feel more valuable for the school and get
influenced to attend all the educational activities positively such as classes, assignment
submission, project work, and the like.
Conclusion:
From the above analysis, it has been found that the attendance record of the high
school group B Foundation is significantly low with a comparison to others. The
students of the classroom have a low passing rate as they often delay their assessment
submission which in turn affect the brand identity of high school group B Foundation.
Secondary research analysis has helped in extracting essential information regarding
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low attendance issues and the process by which this issues could be mitigated. The
major factor that has been identified from the survey result of low attendance problem is
that teachers do not give importance to making good relationship with students which
lack education interest amongst students. The implementation of instructional model in
high school group B foundation will be helpful for the improvement of students’
attendance. But initially, the institute is required to create a positive culture. The creation
of a positive culture will attract more students towards the school which will result in the
enhancement of attendance. Furthermore, teachers of the educational institutions
should be more aware of students’ attendance and management of good educational
culture. Awareness about attendance among the teachers of high school group B
foundation will enhance the effectiveness of instructional model. Maintenance of proper
communication between parents and teachers is also required for the increases in
attendance.
Effective implementation of the instructional model enables high school authorities to
maintain teaching quality within school premises. Interactive classroom sessions are
included to draw attention of a wide range of students existing in a classroom
environment. Flexible interaction and healthy communication with teachers also makes
students more comfortable that influences their learning session. sequential lesson is
also incorporated to lower the chances of absenteeism. However, lack of training
programs reduce the chances of convincing teachers regarding the importance of this
learning session which is considered for enhancing the academic performance of
students. Flexible communication between students in classroom envelopment also
supports in managing quality of learning session.
Recommendation for further work:
After completing the research work on improving the class attendance of group B
foundation at GBS it can be recommended that the researcher have to employ primary
research process to meet the research objectives effectively.
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Appendix A
Project Plan
Actions week 1 week 2 week 3 week 4 week 5 week 6 week 7
Discussion about topic
Confirmation of topic
Writing proposal
Feedback on proposal
Searching related material to form Chapter one
Searching related material to form Chapter two
Searching related material to form Chapter three
Making questionnaire
Conducting interview
Data analysis
Formation of chapter Four
Conclusion and recommendation
Figure 1Gantt chart
Source: Author
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