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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