We examined the prevalence and evaluated associated risk protective factors of adolescent school truancy through sex-stratified models by analysing 7562 data from Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) three South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan. The was 26.6%. highest found in Bangladesh (37%), followed Pakistan (24.7%) Afghanistan (14.7%). Male adolescents had a 2...

This study aimed to determine the psychosocial factors associated with school truancy in secondary school students attending three high risk schools in Kuala Lumpur. It is a cross-sectional study involving 373 Form Four students. Socio demographic, family, living and school characteristics of the respondents were obtained through self-administered questionnaires. There were significantly greate...

ARS is an acronym for Absence Registration System, a computer-assisted system that supports the registration of absent students as well as the analysis of absence data. The design and development of the system resulted from an initiative by the Dutch government, which was looking for a means to reduce absenteeism and therefore started a project in 1988 with thirty secondary schools in large cit...

Society increasingly holds schools responsible for the effectiveness of health promotion activities, such as drug abuse prevention efforts funded through the federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools program. Consequently, school districts use student surveys as a method for assessing trends and evaluating effects of programs on behavior. Because cost and practical concerns often preclude consistent p...

Standard human capital models assume adolescents maximize discounted lifetime earnings when allocating effort to education. If adolescents are impatient, as evidence indicates, then attempts to explain present choices in terms of distant consumption may lack predictive power. This paper posits a model in which rational but myopic adolescents trade off privileges against leisure, while schools s...

This paper aims to examine the academic significance of concept ibasho (a place or community one feels at home), which emerged from problem truancy in Japanese society 1980s. Free schools were created as places for truant children. In field youth work, group-work-based organizations and centers no longer attracting young people these organizations. 1992, Ministry Education issued a report on tr...