Dan Victor B.

Lofranco Grade 12 – STEM

Research Major Output

that schools are currently had is seeing little or

Truancy: Affect on no improvement with the effectiveness dealing
with student act of Truancy.
Junior High School
Truancy in Tagbina National High School is
Students in Tagbina very common for Senior and Junior High
School. It can be observed in the campus.
National High School Males and sometimes female students usually
are the truants, Sometimes they are in group.
1.1 Problem and its Background Teachers are getting concern regarding to this
problem and grading truants is becoming a
It is the choice of the parents to allow their nuisance and difficult for them to manage. As
child to go to school. As the child grows there usual Teachers are the one who reeducate
are chances that the student became a truant. them for the competencies that they have
Schools often deal with the common problem missed at the near end of the school year.
regarding to students having a poor overall Most of these truants end up failing and end
performance. One of these factors is the up having to go school at the same Grade level
absenteeism during class which may degrade as they have last year. One of the concerns
the students’ performance depending on the about Truancy in TNHS is the possible
amount of absences, the teacher usually accident that may happen to the truants.
monitors absences and categorize them as Usually when there are things that happened
absent and excused. to the truants such as accidents, the school will
According to Phil star GLOBAL, there are be blamed for the responsibility for not taking
27.7 million students in the entire Philippines. care of the students.
In Caraga Region, the net attendance for Education is the process of learning to live as
student in all school levels is 92% for female useful and acceptable member of the
and 83% for male. Hence, the net absent rate community and a good citizen (Ferranti,
for female is 8% and 17% for male. Some of 1993). The school is an institution a place of
the factors are caused by Truancy. learning morality and inculcates disciplines to
Truancy is an act of illegally skipping during the students. Truant is identified according to
class without a good reason, in which may the number of illegal absences which is 3 days
affect the academic performance of the according to the Department of Education
student. Truancy is also the factor of drop-out (DepED). Until now truancy is the serious
and out of school children. Particularly in problem in every school. There is a different
High School have higher rate of truancy and cause of truancy including broken family,
by observation the male student usually the mental health issues, lack of ambition, having
one who attempts to skip class. Situation like no friends or social involvement at school.
these make the students vulnerable to the And low self-esteem.
influence of drugs and forbidden doings According to United States Department of
without their parents acknowledgement. Education 1996 Manual to Combat Truancy,
Anything that will happen to the truants will skipping of class is a cry for help and a signal
be blamed to their school. It will that the child is in trouble. A truant is a child
likely damage the reputation and causes more that does not go to school thereby diverting to
problems to the school. Truant cases has been somewhere else wondering around (Sayeter
for many years but recently it has become 1997). Truancy is a problem because the
more serious matter as the number of cases absent students cannot benefit from the
rises sharply either those who truant various programs that the school offers. Effect
alternately or continuously. One major issue of truancy includes lower academic
achievement. (Bake and Jansen, 2000)
1.2 Review of Related Literature Specially, this seeks to answer the following
question:
Truancy can be defined as any unexcused or
undocumented absence from school taking a) What are the possible reasons that
into account the attendance rules of the students skip classes?
specific country ( Claes et al. 2009 ) ranging b) What are the different factors that
from repeated late arrivals to absence from can lead students to become truant?
whole or several days. This activity gives the c) What are the different ways to
range of difference concepts that are used to lessen the doings of truant students?
describe student’s absences from school, such
as unauthorized absence, unexcused absence
or even a dropout which differ by the form of 1.4 Significance of the study
absences.
This study would like to build up a
Due to its complexity, truancy can be comprehension about saw effect of truancy
understood as a behavior that is originating of understudies in their academic execution;
from different societal levels, including the investigation could be significance to the
individual, family and school. suffered from accompanying.
the following condition: mental health
problems, high risks life situation, exposure to a) This study will let the learners
bullying, and learning disabilities (Egger, deeply understand that truancy is a
Costello, & Angold, 2003) With regards to major issue that will greatly affect
family contions, this study shows that this their academic performance.
activity is more common among students with b) This study will guide the teachers as
low income families (Attwood & Croll, 2006; to why some understudies skip
Halloway, 1983) and a single parent classes.
household ( Strand & Granlund, 2014; c) Also, this study will provide
Sundell. El-Khouri, and Mansoon, 2005) and clarification to parents the reasons
among with students living with why their children truant.
disadvantaged neighborhoods (Crowder and
1.5 Scope and delimitation of the study
Sound, 2003; Farrington, 1980). Furthermore,
the schools social environment appears to be There are inherent limitations to this
important including harassments and study that may influence the results of the
degrading treatments by peers or by school research, as the purpose of qualitative
staff are risk factors for truancy (Attwood and research is not necessarily to generalize to a
Croll, 2006; Havik, Bru and Ertesvag, 2014; larger population (Bogdan & Biklen, 2003).
Sweding National Agency for Education, This study does not to generalize results to
2010; Sou 2016:94,). Therefore, improving other locations and the entirely of the
schools environment, e.g. norms and values, school, this only describes and understand
staff’s working conditions, and be may the the effect of truancy in the performances of
school is being led, seem to be important that the student and determines their reason for
helps reduce truancy students. ( Joacim being a truant.
Ramberg, sara Brolim Laffan, ect., 2019)
The participants in this study are the
1.3 Statement of the problem students of Junior High in Tagbina National
High School. we only get 10 students be
This study aims to cognize the
respondents randomly every section. There
different reasons for Junior High School
is possibility that other (person) respondents
students in Tagbina National High School
can narrate more experiences which is not
regarding truancy in S.Y. 2019-2020
discussed by the research participants.
1.6 Theoretical/ Conceptual Framework academic year 2019-2020 in relation with
the effect of the performance of students.
As what Malcom X said “education
is our passport to the future, for tomorrow The subjects for this study are Junior High
belongs to the people who prepare for it students from Tagbina National High school
today”, One of the obligation of the parents during academic year 2019-2020.
to their children is to bring them to school,
giving a knowledge to the world around us Figure 1. Total Number of respondents
and changes into something better. Year Level Respondents Population
7 Male 10
Some of the parents are unable to
Female 10
finish their study due to financial problems. 8 Male 10
Because of this it leads to early marriage, Female 10
where they experienced hardships. And also 9 Male 10
they experienced difficulties in raising their Female 10
children. So they don’t want their children to 10 Male 10
be like them or to experience those Female 10
TOTAL 80
difficulties. That’s why, even though it’s
hard for them to send their children to
 Understand the
school because of poverty. But still, they do root cause
it all so that they can educate their children.  Take note of Potential way
the different
root cause
to decrease
Understanding how the Truants feel  Make a logical the percentage
on their action, listening to their purpose, assumption Potentialofway to decrease the
Truancy
and recognizing their reasons. Can help the  Plan for
solution
percentage of Truancy
school to be aware and possibly take action
over it. And hopefully change the mind of
the Truants to the right direction. Reducing
the number of truants may help the school to
succeed on their objectives as Educators.
And have organized and disciplined
students. These may likely increase the
number the of graduate students and
decrease the percentage of out of school
students or Drop outs.

Conceptual Framework

This study will use a descriptive type of

method. It will be based on the result on
surveys that gives facts and not just merely
rely on perspective of individuals. The
researcher will use a questionnaire to
address the truancy activity of the students.
Through observations and interviews, the
study will be supplemented with
corresponding data. The study aims to stop
this kind of activity to help students become
discipline of the Junior High School at
Tagbina National High School during