- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Teacher absenteeism and selected personal factors, 1987
- Creator:
- Lowe, Bennie O.
- Date of Original:
- 1987-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This research attempts to determine if teacher absenteeism can be linked to a number of personal factors, including age, sex, race, marital status, teaching qualifications, teaching experience, and number of children in the family in a high school. The population consists of all 91 teachers in a selected public high school in the DeKalb County School System, with a student population of approximately 1600 students. The County Office provided demographic data on each of the subjects. A personal data form was designed to gather information related to the seven (7) variables studied. The main findings are: 1. Younger teachers, age range of 23-27, with less experience, are absent from duty less frequently than their more experienced counterparts. 2. White teachers were absent from duty more frequently than their black counterparts. 3. Subjects with the least years of experience maintained the lowest mean absenteeism rate. 4. The sex of the teacher had no significant influence on teacher absenteeism. 5. The mean absenteeism for divorced/widowed teachers was higher than for single and married teachers. 6. Consistent with the findings in the review of other related literature, there is no significant influence of levels of educational preparation upon teacher absenteeism. 7. The number of children in the family had little or no influence upon the absenteeism rate of the teachers among all the age ranges of the subjects. It is recommended that the institution and system-wide administration give immediate attention to implementing absenteeism intervention strategies that might help to alleviate the high rate of teacher absenteeism related to the independent variables studied. It is also recommended that staff development training be provided for all staff to gain knowledge of the characteristics and cultural backgrounds of the student population. Further research should include school climate as a variable and a larger sample.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1987_lowe_bennie_o
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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