Abstract
School absenteeism and low academic performance at primary schools remain a big issue for developing countries like Ethiopia. Thus, this study aims to determine predicting factors influencing academic performances and school absenteeism jointly at primary schools in Ethiopia. A cross-sectional data were obtained from the Young Lives project from wave 1 (the starting month of academic year) and wave 2 (the last month of academic year). Multivariate regression model was used to investigate the predictors on the linear combination of academic performances and count regression model was also used to investigate the predictor of school absenteeism. In fact, both Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models were considered but the latter better fit to the data that have been used for this study than the former model. The result at national level showed mean of school absenteeism and academic performance at wave 1, respectively are 6 days and 67.64 scores and the average performance at wave 2 is also 61.44 score. It has been found out that the number of meals, number of siblings, mother’s literacy, survivor-ship of mother, type of school siblings attending, pre-school attendance, time to get to school, grade repeating, school drop outing, extra class attendances and the availability of helping person with school works at home have a combined effect on the school absenteeism and academic performance. Thus, potential stakeholders should pay attention for the aforementioned factors so as to reduce school absenteeism and then maximize academic performance.
Highlights
Education has long been recognized as a fundamental human right and an important building block in the development of children and broader society [1]
This study aim to investigate the covariates contributing for school absenteeism and associated with average academic performance based on young lives data using multivariate methods and count regression models
The results showed that the nature of variation of school absenteeism and academic performance was different by the number of meal sa student normally eat per a day, type of school siblings attending, pre-school attendance, grade repeating and region
Summary
Education has long been recognized as a fundamental human right and an important building block in the development of children and broader society [1]. The level of participation and engagement even in compulsory education processes can generally be viewed on a spectrum This has been a feature of the educational literature across a range of countries over many decades, and underscores the fact that there is typically a segment of the population who has persistent difficulties in this area [5]. Persistent non-attendance may require additional resources to re-engage students in schooling and to help them catch up on missed learning involve learning and personal student support staff and interagency collaborations which incur additional cost to the country. This poor school attendance represents a loss of educational opportunity and a cost to the community
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