Virginia Tech
Home and school factors associated with high school truancy in a southeastern Virginia urban school district
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe 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?
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Education
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Educational Administration
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Educational Administration
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1991
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Jeter, DeWayne
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Conley, Houston
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Fortune, Jimmie C.
- McKeen, Ronald L.
- Proctor, Ronald
- Richards, Robert R.
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-10142005-135807
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39923