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Absenteeism on students’ performance in mixed public secondary schools :
(Kampala International University, College of Economics and Management, 2018-08) Watuwa, Godfrey
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of absenteeism on academic performance of students in mixed public secondary schools in Manafwa District (Narnisindwa). The assessment was made by characteristics of the students, absenteeism causes that is poverty, sexual abuse and school related factors. Using primary data based on a sample of 180 candidate students from Magale sss and comprehensive sss, 50 teachers and 20 head teachers/D.O.Ss were also involved in the study, across sectional survey design was adopted where data was obtained from students, teachers and head teachers/D.O.Ss using questionnaires. The analysis was made using SPSS 16.0 at three levels of analysis based on the records of all the respondents. it involved use of frequency distribution, Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA and multiple linear regression. In the results, an average of 6.47 points in the academic performance shows a moderate performance among the students. in the multivariate analysis, students’ performance was significantly associated with the students’ absenteeism causes that is poverty, sexual abuse and school related factor and the characteristics of students under sex (p