The Impact of Students’ Attendance on Effective Learning: An Evaluative Study

Abstract

Student attendance is seen as a significant hallmark of an effective school and as a tool for reducing student dropouts and maintaining an effective learning-teaching process. In this way, the data of the students who studied in Grade 10 in the year 2019 at a well-known and famous school in Oluvil area of East Sri Lanka, Al Jaysha Girls' College, were examined for this research. The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of continued attendance on students' effective learning. Interview, discussion, questionnaire and telephone conversation with school principal, teachers, students in grade 10, the alumni, etc. were primary sources to collect data. And the secondary data were collected via results obtained in all three exams, school texts, special issues, co-curricular activities and presented studies and website related to effective learning. The study has found that there is a gap between the individual personality and continuity attendance of the students, which leads to a stipulated number of dropouts.