Every child: In school and in class, every day and on time
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Date
2017
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CONSORTIA ACADEMIA
Abstract
Links between truancy and academic performance have been well established in research. As
such, different measures have been employed to combat truancy across the world. Despite
these struggles, current data accessed from different parts of the world show this problem to
continue at different degrees. The objectives of the present research were twofold: First, to
explore whether the number of students whose truancy is limited to part of the school day is
less than those who miss the whole day. Secondly, the study aimed to study the practices of
school-administrators in monitoring students’ school-attendance and their impact on
combating truancy. The results showed that: (i) there are truants of different types: those who
miss whole school-day, those who miss some sessions and those who practice both types, (ii)
school administrators rely on the same strategy of monitoring students’ school-attendance
regardless of the truancy-style that is predominant, (iii) in average, whole-day truants perform
lower that those who missed part of the day; and, (iv) the prolonged use of the same strategies
in monitoring truancy, especially if it is well-known by students has; and, (iv) the use of
general and one strategy of monitoring truancy has little impact on schools’ struggles to
combat truancy. The study recommended educational experts and other stakeholders to
categorize truants in their records, and use unique strategies to control different categories of
truants.
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School attendance, Absenteeism, Truancy, Tanzania