Certain stipulated methods were used sequentially in the collection, processing and analysis of data in this work. These steps include:
Research design
Area of the study
Population of the study
Sample and sampling techniques
Instrument for data collection
Validation of instrument
Reliability of the instrument
Method of data collection
Method of data analysis
RESEARCH DESIGN
This study adopted a descriptive survey research design. This was chosen because it enabled the researcher to study the sample selected from the population selected for the research.
AREA OF THE STUDY
The area of the study is Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It is made up of nine (9) communities, which share common ancestry. Ohaukwu is predominately a rural area with some blossoming urban areas, spreading here and there among the agrarian communities. Ezzamgbo, the Local Government Area Headquarters “Effium and Ngbo are the heart of these sprouting urban areas, and their occupation is mainly civil service, trading and farming.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
The population of the study was three thousand (3000) secondary school students. Within Ohaukwu secondary education system, there are forty (40) secondary schools, a total of three thousand students (3,000). On the average, a teacher handles around forty (40) students. Therefore, there are eight hundred teachers in Ohaukwu Local Government Area.
SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
The sample size for the study was two hundred (200) secondary school teachers. A simple random sampling technique was used in this research to select sixteen (16) schools out of the 40 secondary schools in Ohaukwu Local Government Area. Afterwards, 200 teachers were selected to represent 800 teachers in the area. These 200 teachers were selected through simple random sampling as a size using ballot papers.
INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION
In order to get the required information from respondents, a well-structured questionnaire was used as instrument to collect data. It was designed by the researcher and titled, “problem of truancy and its effect on the performance of secondary school students in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.” This enabled the researcher to elicit information from teachers on truancy among secondary school students. The entire questionnaire was administered by hand. The same method was used in its collection. The respondents were expected to answer “Yes” or “No” to questions.
VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT
To ensure the validity of the items on the questionnaire, the instrument was given to two experts in educational foundations department and one expert in measurement and evaluation in the faculty of education, in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki for validation. They critized the work based on language, content, suitability to the purpose and relatedness. Their inputs gave rise to the final draft of instrument.
RELIABILITY OF THE INSTRUMENT
A test retest method of obtaining reliability of instrument was used for the study. The same test was administered after two days, and the stability (reliability) co-efficient stood at 0.82. And this was obtained through the use of persons product moment co-efficient of correlation.
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
The method of data collection was structured questionnaire. The questionnaire has two (2) section’s section A and section B. section A is where the respondents are required to supply their personal data. Section B is the main questionnaire. The researcher provided choice of answers from which the respondents are required to choose from, to enable them answer the questionnaire items with ease, twenty questionnaire items are involved.
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Data collected were analyzed using mean scores, frequencies and percentages. The data collected were organized and analyzed according to the demands of the research question.
Percentage (%) = Respondent x 100Total respondent 1
% = R x 100TR 1
Key:
A – Agree
SA – Strongly Agree
D – Disagree
SD – Strongly Disagree
R – Respondents
TR – Total Respondents
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