Annotated Bibliography on School Absenteeism: Research Studies Review

This annotated bibliography compiles and analyzes five quantitative research studies on school absenteeism. The studies investigate various factors contributing to student absence, including personal factors like academic self-perception and motivation, family influences such as parental education and income, and the impact of parental beliefs. The research designs employed include cross-sectional surveys, online surveys, and randomized experiments. The studies examine the relationship between absenteeism and academic performance, explore the causes of absenteeism and dropouts in primary and secondary schools, and assess interventions aimed at reducing student absences. Key findings highlight the negative impact of absenteeism on academic achievement, the role of family dynamics, and the potential of interventions targeting parental misbeliefs to reduce chronic absenteeism. The bibliography provides a comprehensive overview of the current research landscape, offering insights into the complex issue of school absenteeism and potential solutions.

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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

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whether the children and adolescents prone to absenteeism possess fear from any particular
lesson or any activity that is a part of the school day. Secondly, the research aims to investigate
one-week school absenteeism in Germany. Thirdly, to investigate about the existence of
previously known risk factor that contributed to the school absenteeism. A non-probability
design of research was selected for this particular research work.
Following the non-probability design, the research used the instrument of online survey
method. The link of the online survey (www.limesurvey.org) was sent to 10 students and
adolescents. After conducting the survey they published the result through channel. The finding
section states that, it was the first research work to use the online survey method. After
conducting a comparative study with the German Government Statistics the answer of the first
question results into negative. Second question of the research also shows low percentage in the
field of school absenteeism. In response to the third question, it shows a relation with psychology
and absenteeism.
Rogers, T., & Feller, A. (2018). Reducing student absences at scale by targeting parents’
misbeliefs. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(5), 335-342.
This research paper dwells with the concept of parent’s misbeliefs as the reason of school
absenteeism. The study involves two main research questions for the research activities. Firstly,
to investigate the student’s total absence in terms to decrease absenteeism. Secondly, whether the
absence of the typical children lead to a greater decrease in absenteeism.
The research design for this particular study includes a non-parametric approach with
complete justification with randomization. For the population of the research work, the study
includes the district administrative records. The records were drawn from eight largest school

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district of Philadelphia United States. The study failed to find meaningful treatment that effect
the variation by the grade-level and gender of students with limited statistical power. However, it
observed the effect of quantile effects of treatment.
Sahin, S., Arseven, Z., & Kiliç, A. (2016). Causes of Student Absenteeism and School
Dropouts. International Journal of Instruction, 9(1), 195-210.
This research work is built around the investigation for the causes of school absenteeism
and dropouts at primary and secondary schools in the province of Düzce. It also investigates for
some suggestion to solve the existing problems. As a research design the study includes the case
study design as a mode of qualitative research approach.
The population for this research is 64 school principals from primary, secondary, and
high schools. The instrument used for the research is a semi-structured interview with nine
questions. Content analytic method was adopted to analyze the collected data. As per the
findings of the research work, the root causes of school absenteeism and dropouts lies within the
family. The problems were analyzed from five perspective which are relationship between the
child and family members, ignoring the concept of absenteeism, problems within the family,
perspective of education, and the impossibilities of economy. To measure the causes of dropouts
there are another set of perspectives that includes the relationship between administration and
student, relationship between student and teacher, behavior of the teachers within class, and view
for absenteeism. The study concluded that lack of care towards the children and negative attitude
towards the students are the causes of absenteeism and dropouts respectively.
Ocak, G., Ocak, İ., & Baysal, E. A. (2017). The causes of absenteeism of high school
students. European Journal of Education Studies.

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This study contributes to find the answer of the research question that is what the causes
of school absenteeism are. The research comprised of the population of 531 students at public
high schools. Instrument used in this research paper is a survey model with ‘The Scale of
Absenteeism Causes’ initiated by researchers. To investigate the normality of data Kolmogrov-
Smirnov test was utilized.
According to the findings, the causes of school absenteeism has no relation with the
school. The survey result also depicts that the students do not consider themselves as responsible
for absenteeism. However, from the conclusion it can be understood that the causes of
absenteeism is partly associated with the school. It includes poor teaching strategies, monotonous
environment of learning, and disturbed socio-economic situations. It also incorporates with
negative relationship between students and teacher. Moreover, the response of the students
depicts reverse picture due to the strict management of the school.