Impact of Teacher Absenteeism on Student Achievement: A Case of South Punjab District Muzaffargarh, Pakistan

Abstract

In a recent few decades years, there has been a substantial attempt by emergent countries to put their children in the school. Basic education and educational achievement are apparent as one of the major vehicles for spurring economic development and improving the living standard of the under developing countries. Therefore, the educational accomplishment in the under developing countries is at a standstill, because of certain factors of which absenteeism in school is also contribute. An exploratory research was conducted in district Muzaffargarh to explore the factor behind the absenteeism, their effect on the student’s performance. For this purpose we had collected data through simple questionnaire method of 200 teachers, where government and private school teachers were equally distributed, in a descriptive statistics by using SPPS (21) statistical package, we had to find out their monthly income status, leaving chart, causes of absenteeism school-related problem, and personal problem as well. It was found out that most of the government school teacher avail more leave then the private school teacher, weather problem, transport problem, emergency work at home, are the main reason for teacher absenteeism. Government teacher as compare the private teacher feel more secure job, and working environment at school.

Keywords: Emergent, absenteeism, student, significant