THE ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS TOWARDS THE USE
OF MOTIVATION IN DISCOURAGING TRUANCY
AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
IN GOMBE STATE
BY
Shamsuddeen AMINU
PG17/MED/PSY/1001
EDUC 804: Graduate Seminar in Education
M.Ed Psychology programme
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
GOMBE STATE UNIVERSITY
JULY, 2018
Introduction
Stoll (2002) defines truancy as “absence from school
for no legitimate reason”
For Peninsky (2000), truancy is consistent absence
from school for many days, weeks or months.
Truancy therefore is the act or instance of missing
school without permission.
Introduction. Contd
Truancy can occur in boring and boredom classes
and non conducive school environment (Osarenren,
1999).
Some students become truant because of peer
influence.
Truancy can be caused by crave for vocational work
(carpentry, mechanic e.t.c) to meet needs.
Political thuggery pushes students in to truancy.
Statement of the problem
Truancy makes student’s performance negative.
Habitual truant is likely to perform poorly.
Poor performance may lead to dropout.
High rate of dropouts may increase social vices in
society.
Research objectives
Find out the strategies used by teachers to
discourage truancy among senior secondary school
students in Gombe state.
Determine the attitude of teachers towards the use of
motivation to discourage truancy.
Research questions
What are the strategies used by teachers in
discouraging truancy among senior secondary school
students in Gombe state?
What is the attitude of teachers towards the use of
motivation to discourage truancy?
Significance of the study
The study will be beneficial to:
• Other researchers
• Teachers
• School administrators
• Educational policy makers
Literature Review
Baker and Jansen (2000) believes that truancy leads
to lower academic achievements.
According to Garry (2001) truancy leads to
delinquent and criminal activities.
Ibrahim, AbuBakr, and Shuaibu (2015) outlined
school based interventions, the role of teachers and
the role of PTA as some measures of curbing truancy.
The most popular treatment given to truants is
“corporal punishment”
Literature Review. Contd
Counseling strategies are widely used to discourage
truancy
Use of motivation in discouraging truancy is rather
rare
Methodology
Survey research design will be adopted.
The population for the study consist of all teachers of
senior secondary schools in Gombe state.
The sample of the study will comprise of randomly
selected participants out of the total population.
The instrument to be used for data collection will be
a questionnaire to be developed on a 4-points Likert
scale.
Methodology. Contd
The instrument will be face validated by three
experts.
The reliability will be tested on Cronbach Alpha
using test retest.
The structured questionnaire will be administered on
the sampled population to collect data.
Descriptive statistics will be adopted in the data
analysis.
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