Factors Contributing to Absenteeism

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING OF POOR ATTENDANCE AT SECONDARY SCHOOL

(NAILI ILIANI BINTI MOKHTAR)

MASTER OF SCIENCE (QUANTITATIVE SCIENCES)

FACULTY OF COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

APRIL 2014

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING OF POOR ATTENDANCE AT SECONDARY SCHOOL

NAILI ILIANI BINTI MOKHTAR

Project Proposal Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree of

MASTER OF SCIENCE (QUANTITATIVE SCIENCES)

FACULTY OF COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

APRIL 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction 4 - 6

1.2 Problem Statement 7 - 8

1.3 Research Questions 8

1.4 Research Objectives 8

1.5 Scope of Study 8 - 9

1.6 Significance of Study 9

1.7 Limitations of Study 9

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction 10

2.2 Key Concepts 10 - 12

2.3 Factors of Absenteeism 13 - 15

2.4 Method 15 - 16

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY

3.1 Introduction 17

3.2 Participants 17

3.3 Data Collected 17

3.5 Software used 18 - 20

REFERENCES 21 - 23

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Education is a process of learning to obtain knowledge on a person. But education not only means by gaining knowledge, but also an experience, skills also belief of ones. It also can be explain as the intentional behavior change process (Alyildiz and Kuguoglu, 2010). It means that with the intention on learning something. Learning process mostly initiated (apart from early education at home) in schools where children attend class. Teachers teach students in certain subjects on certain time transfer information in a productive way of transmitting knowledge (Bati et al., 2013).

Learning process start from the first day babies was born. First stage babies curios with surrounding and start to recognize...