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Michael James Flipping

Jan Hamili Leyva

Jun Ho

Introduction

It is evident that some students will be late or absent no matter what the

setting is. Students in other countries get late too and they may be late for reasons

that may be different or similar to ours, so the research may apply to anyone of any

nationality. Being absent/late may cause students to change the way they think and

act and it can be seen among High School students. It can be seen as the student

progresses from Grade 7 to Grade 12, notice how Grade 7 students are all excited

going to school while Grade 12 students are not “pumped up” in going to school.

Basically the research will be discussing how attendance may affect or may not

affect the grades, sleep, and attitude of a student.

The research will be conducted in “Aguinaldo International School”, which is

an international school located in Manila, Philippines. The students in each

classroom/grade may be of different nationalities, but the majority of students are

either Filipino or half Filipino. But more specifically the research will be dealing with

the “High School Department”, where some students are mostly on time and these

students do not really have much issues aside from the occasional complaints on

workload. Each class may vary in numbers for example Grade 12 has 9 students

while Grade 7 has 12 - 15 students and both Grade levels may have students who

are late and/or absent most of the time.

Attendance is what we will be heavily focusing about in this research, it is the

time a student goes to school and how often they attend school. The research is
about how it affects the performance of students in school. Some other things we will

be focusing in this research is the grades, behaviour, and sleep of the students, we

will determine how attendance defines/affects a student regarding his/her grades,

behaviour, and sleep.

The statistics related to school absenteeism are staggering. Each school day,

2,500,000 students are reported absent from school. The dropout rate is estimated

at 27 percent nationally and over 45 percent in some cities. The 27 percent dropout

rate equates to 65 busloads of students who leave United States schools each week

and do not return. In a year's time, 700,000 students will be lost. In two years, the

number will exceed one million (Person, 1990).

The attendance data for secondary students provided by the OAP for the

State of Virginia indicates that 66 percent of students in grades 9-12 during the

school year '95-'96 were absent 10 days or less from school. The OAP data further

lists Newport News Public Schools as having 55 percent of its grades 9-12 students

absent 10 days or less from school (OAP Report, 1997).

Attendance is part of a pupil's cumulative record. It is important that good

school attendance habits be established for later years when pupils seek

employment (Jett & Platt, 1979).

Rood (1989) views absenteeism as a constant interruption of the learning

process. The more absences a student accumulates, the less he or she can be

expected to adequately participate in and understand classroom activities. Rood

continues by stating that it is no secret that the skill levels of many high school

students have declined while absenteeism continues to increase. He writes that on

an average Monday, many urban high schools have an absence rate

of more than 30 percent. It is common for many secondary students to miss 20 to 90

days of school in an academic year. (Rood, 1989)

Statistics show that 63% of youth in secondary school age 12-15 attend

secondary school at the appropriate age with 56% for males and 70% for females. In

urban areas, 72% of children of secondary school age attend school, compared to

55% in rural areas. Secondary net attendance is highest in the Ilocos region (77%);

attendance is lowest in the ARMM region (37%).

The general objective of this study is to determine whether a student’s

attendance could affect the grades, behaviour, sleep, or any other variables in a

student’s life, and also to help students be knowledgeable about their problems and

what causes it. To provide students ways on how to deal their problems. To help

students adjust to a different routine and to help them cope better with school. To

assist teachers on how to approach the problem and the most important one, to

enlighten students that some of their problems are made by themselves.

The research should be beneficial to students and hopefully future

researchers. Students would be able to benefit from the research, they could

possibly get a better lifestyle after reading the research. The students might be able

to pick up new ways to improve their life and most importantly their attendance.

Future researchers should be able to benefit from this research if they will tackle the

same field of study.

References:
Statistics:

(https://www.epdc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Philippines_coreusaid.pdf)

(https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-3898-

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