Selected Measures for Curbing Truancy among Secondary School Students in Ebonyi State Nigeria

Abstract

The study examines the selected measures for curbing truancy among secondary school students in Ebonyi state. Four research questions guided the study and descriptive survey research design was employed. The population comprised of 4423 teachers in 221 secondary schools in the area. Simply random sampling was used to select 108 teachers from nine selected secondary schools. A 20-item research made questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument received face validation and was subjected to reliability test using t-test. This was analyzed using Cronbach Alpha Correlation Coefficient and it yielded coefficient of 0.79. Mean score were to analyze the data collected. The findings revealed that parents involvement in truancy prevention activities, on-going truancy prevention programmes, role of school prefect and government activities serve as adequate measure for reducing truancy among students in secondary school. Finally the paper recommended among others that parent should be mandated by school authorities to provide their children with basic school needs.

KEY WORDS: Selected Measures, Truancy, Secondary School Students, Ebonyi State