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Development of predictive characteristic traits profiling truancy of ninth grade students based on the impact of an attendance intervention program within the Conroe Independent School District
The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristic traits of truant students based on a ninth grade attendance intervention program conducted at Conroe High School (CHS) within the Conroe Independent School District (CISD). Significance of selected characteristics and truancy were for the ninth grade students of this study. This research study identified common factors believed to contribute to truant behavior, and traits considered by society as negative and non-productive. Poor academic performance, gender, membership in special education programs, low socioeconomic status, substance abuse, criminal behavior, gang involvement, and single parent family structures are the leading characteristics profiled in this study for truancy. ANOVA analysis indicated that the most direct influences on truancy behavior of the ninth grade students were passing grades, substance abuse, gang involvement, and criminal behavior. The variables that were identified through the regression analysis to be the strongest predictors for excessive absences were passing grades, arrest, female, substance abuse, and enrollment in a special education program. Recommendations for implementation and further study: 1. Apply research successful interventions. 2. Prevention at onset of any predictive characteristic. 3. Emphasize counseling services from social workers, and counselors to treat the contributing characteristics. 4. Offer 12 free years of education regardless of age. 5. Develop an identification profile. 6. Increase the number of trained psychologists to work in the school. 7. Require counseling for both parents and student that equally addresses all contributing factors to the truant behavior. 8. Develop a tax exemption that would include mandatory parental time to be spent on the school at a minimum of ten days per school year. 9. Enforce all possible truancy violations and penalties by District and other Court systems.
"Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development".
"Major Subject: Educational Administration".
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Thesis (Ed. D.) Texas A&M University 2003
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-198).