A consistent class attendance is an important factor in academic success of any student. In defense to this, several studies have since quantitatively confirmed this, revealing that absenteeism negatively affects the students’ performance. This because, the students that miss classes on a given date are meaningfully more likely to give incorrect response to questions provided to them in relation to the session materials as compared to those that were present. Nevertheless, there also exist other external factors apart from absenteeism that affects the students’ performance such as, the quiz performance, academic ability and the student’s gender. Institutions should ensure that they are responsive to issues pertaining to student absenteeism. Programs can also be adopted, those that are designed to assist the student with tendency of absenteeism; community juvenile justice agencies and community based programs. The institution can also adapt to practices and policies ensuring that the students attend classes rather than pushing them out. On the other hand the student’s families can also be involved with the institutions working hand in hand with the parents in solving such problems.

From the random sampled data we see that the students’ performance was majorly affected in reading as compared to math. For instance, from the table we can see that whenever absenteeism was recorded to be high, the student performance in reading was highly affected. Take for example, when the days absent was 4 the students’ performance in reading was 297 while in math the students’ performance was recorded to be 275. When the days absent was recorded to be 45 the students’ performance in reading was also recorded to be high at 295 as compared to the students math performance which was recorded to be 289. When there was no absenteeism, the math performance was on the other hand highly recorded as compared to that of reading. From this point of view we see that student’s absenteeism majorly affected the students’ performance in reading.

Reference

Balkis, M., Arslan, G., & Duru, E. (2016). The School Absenteeism among High School Students: Contributing Factors. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 16(6), 1819-1831.