• Zia Ullah Khan Sial

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• Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal

  Author

• Muhammad Aslam Chaudhary

  Author

• Rao Arif Qamar

  Author

The present study highlights the institutional climate factors that become the cause of student’s
absenteeism in secondary schools. The objectives of the study were; to find out the institutional
climate factors causing secondary school absenteeism and to find out the school physical
environmental factor effect students’ absenteeism at secondary level. The study was consisted of
the population of all the students of secondary school students of grade 9th and 10th in districts of
Multan and Sahiwal. A sample of 150 secondary school students were selected from population
through random sampling technique. A questionnaire was used for collecting data on five point
likert scale. The researchers developed a questionnaire through the review of related literature
having 13 items. For the analysis of raw data, the researchers used Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. Statistical techniques of mean score and standard deviation
used in the study. In the consequence of absence of teacher parents meeting, students are
careless to attend the school. School rules are too strict so sometimes they skip to go to school
due to strict rules of school. Teacher’s behavior and strictness is cause of student’s absenteeism.
The study concluded that the schools do not regularly organize meeting with parents, the school
rules are too strict and the teacher gives too much home work to the students, so all the above
mentioned reasons become the cause of students’ absenteeism in the schools.

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