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Home and school factors associated with high school truancy in a southeastern Virginia urban school district

The purpose of the study was to identify which additional factors that have been related to truancy are perceived by chronic truant students; additionally, the researcher wanted to know how demographic differences among chronic truant students (i.e., gender, socio-economic status, parental education, and their own education aspirations) related to these attitudes.

The research questions were: (1) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of student participation in school activities? (2) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of school curriculum? (3) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of relationships with counse1ors? ( 4 ) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of relationships with teachers? (5) What are chronic truant students' perceptions with administrators (6) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of family education expectations and goals? (7) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of parental involvement? / Ed. D.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39923
Date14 October 2005
CreatorsJeter, DeWayne
ContributorsEducational Administration, Conley, Houston, Fortune, Jimmie C., McKeen, Ronald L., Proctor, Ronald, Richards, Robert R.
PublisherVirginia Tech
Source SetsVirginia Tech Theses and Dissertation
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation, Text
Formatx, 96 leaves, BTD, application/pdf, application/pdf
RightsIn Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
RelationOCLC# 25119489, LD5655.V856_1991.J484.pdf

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