Date of Award
4-1984
Degree Name
Specialist in Education
Department
Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
First Advisor
Dr. Lawrence B. Schlack
Second Advisor
Dr. Charles Warfield
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This paper compares absentee rates for teachers and students in three Michigan school districts. The districts under investigation vary greatly in enrollment. This first chapter relates the problem of teacher and student absenteeism to maintaining an assumed level of teacher/student contact time.
The second chapter reviews literature related to student and teacher absenteeism. This includes those studies which evaluate absenteeism based on personal and organizational factors associated with absence.
The third chapter relates the procedures which were used in the comparison. The fourth chapter lists the results of the data collected from the three school districts. The data are compared by district size, elementary or secondary level of instruction, and students and teachers.
The fifth chapter discusses the results and suggests possible reasons for the difference identified in the previous chapters. Conclusions arid recommendations, based on the comparison are also included in the fifth chapter.
Recommended Citation
Huffman, John Clifton, "A Comparison of Teacher and Student Absenteeism in Three School Districts of Different Size" (1984). Masters Theses. 1491.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1491