Truancy And Academic Performance Of Learners In Selected Schools In North Eastern Province Ijara Division Ijara District

ABSTRACT After realizing that truancy was very common the researcher made an effort to undertake a study on how truancy affected the academic performance of the learners. The researcher also wanted to identify other effects, causes underlying the behavior, and above all the intervention measures to be taken to curb truancy. To achieve the above objective, the researcher prepared his data collection tools in form of questionnaires and circulated them to his respondents. The data collected was finally processed and analyzed quantitatively using tables and figures that are in frequencies and per…