Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate into the factors that contribute to truancy among
students in public Senior High Schools in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti
Region. The objectives of the study were to find out how students’ truancy is prevalent in
Senior High Schools, identify the factors that contribute to students’ truancy in Senior High
Schools and to determine the effects of student’s truancy in Senior High Schools. The
researcher used descriptive survey design with quantitative research method for the study.
The targeted population of the study was all the headmasters and assistant headmasters,
teachers and students of the four public senior high schools in the Atwima Nwabiagya
District. Purposive sampling was used to select all the 16 headmasters and assistant
headmasters. Simple random sampling was used to select 80 teachers and 80 students. This
gave a total of 176 respondents. The researcher used closed ended questionnaires to collect
data for the study. The study found among others that truancy among students’ was
prevalent in senior high schools in the study area. Among the students factors that
contributed to truancy among students were influence of peers and disinterest in courses
studied. School factors identified as contributing to truancy included the use of students for
non-academic duties. Home factors included lack of parental interest in school. Some
effects of students’ truancy were school dropout and early sex. Based on the findings it was
recommended that supervision should be improved in senior high schools to prevent
students from running away from school.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Educational Leadership, Faculty of Education
and Communication Sciences submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Akenten
Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for award of the Master of Arts (Educational
Leadership) degree
DECEMBER, 2021