EFFECTS OF TRUANCY ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
ABSTRACT
This research was carried out to examine the effects of truancy on academic performance of primary school in Abeokuta south local government area of Ogun State. The research methodology utilizes descriptive statistics with sample numbers and percentage in the analysis and synthizing of primary source of data collected via questionnaire as well as divers literature on the area of study. Chi-square was used in the testing of hypothesis posited. However, this study revealed that truancy hinders effective learning and could lead to poor academic performance of truants. It is therefore recommended that there should be enlightenment campaigns by government agencies and non–government organisations for parents and children on the dangers inherent in truancy, and that there school authority and teachers should ensure conducive school physical environment should be good working relationship between teachers and pupils.
Keywords: Training, Academic, Performance.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
In recent times, education has been recognized globally as one of the universal ways of survival and improvement of the well-being of individual and society. The advent of formal education is considered as the foundation for national development as well as the surest way of making all long life achievements. For these reasons, families and citizens especially the youth and children now pay more attention to education. Counseling no nation, government, organization or family makes effective impact and lasting successes in their daily affairs without having educated citizens. Officers, workers who had clearer understanding of their obligate was functions or responsibilities observe the law, apply policies and co-operate in its affairs. The 6-3-3-4 system of education established in 1982 was aimed at providing Universal Basic Education for the citizens in order to breed species of individual with compassion for our great nation.
However, the effort invested by the federal government of Nigeria on education had over the years provide a fruitful and promising reward to national development posing a lively hope for the better in the immediately future. It is of no doubt that several factors have posted relentless restriction to the trend of the rapid development in education for which truancy in both public and teachers primary school has been a cankerworm to education. This has raised several questions to the quality of education and educational administration in Nigeria primary schools (Huzinga and Thomberry, 2000).
Furthermore, the impact of truancy is very obvious and usually a negative one on truants presents and future life in education. Truancy results in loss of intellectual development and lack of improvement of individual. Also, it leads to poor academic performance at the end of the school periods, school terms and school year. Truancy as a threat to academic performance of the pupil is believed to reduce the quality of education a child receives. It reduces the standard of academic achievement of a child. It leads to the fall of educational standard in schools.
