- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The relationship between teacher absenteeism and selected personal factors, 1991
- Creator:
- Killum, Earnest
- Date of Original:
- 1991-07-01
- 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, number of children, grade level, classroom control, number of students sent to the office for discipline, and ability level. The main findings are: Younger teachers, age range 21-27, with less experience, are absent from duty less frequently than their more experienced counterparts. White teachers are absent from duty more frequently than their black counterparts. Subjects with the least years of experience maintained the lowest mean absenteeism rate. The sex of the teacher had no significant influence on teacher absenteeism. The mean absenteeism for married teachers was higher than for divorced and widowed teachers. Consistent with the findings in the review of other related literature, there is a significant influence of levels of education upon teacher absenteeism. The number of children in the family had a significant influence upon the absenteeism rate of the teachers among all the age ranges of the subjects. The grade level of the teacher had no significant influence upon the absenteeism rate of the teachers. Teacher classroom control had no significant influence upon the absenteeism rate of the teachers. The number of students sent to the office for discipline problems each week had no significant influence upon the absenteeism rate of the teachers. The ability level of the class had no influence upon the absenteeism rate of the teachers.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1991_killum_earnest
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
