Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City
Online published on 20 May, 2017.
Classroom teaching is a traditional tool which education employs to stir the community towards an improved condition. One destructive factor that needs to be addressed is student absenteeism. The learning potential is curbed to a significant measure without the presence of the students in the classroom context, which caters as the avenue for different manners of involvement, participation and experience.
Absenteeism, however, is but a symptom of a greater and deep-lying cause. This study therefore derives its premise in that the underlying factors of absenteeism must be determined for accurate diagnosis of the problem and only then can solutions be drawn accordingly.
63 earning unit students of F.L. Vargas College, Caritan Campus were the subject of this study. Their class attendance was monitored and then studied comparatively against specific elements in the profile of the students. This study also proposed possible reasons to the observed practice of students to absent themselves from classes.
The conclusions gleaned from the data gathered and analyzed gave insight to how school administration and faculty may respond to the trend of absenteeism.
