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    Effect of Truancy on Academic Performance among Public Secondary School Students in West-Pokot County, Kenya
    (Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS), 2024) Limakwang, Philip P.; Kinyanjui, Gladys
    The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of truancy on academic performance among public secondary school students in West-Pokot County, Kenya. Truancy is a concern in education. Teenage truancy puts their prospects of reaching their educational objectives in danger. Students who are always absent in school fall behind their counterparts in the classroom. The objectives of the study were to determine the effect of occasional truancy on academic performance among public secondary school students in West-Pokot county, Kenya, to assess the effect of habitual truancy on academic performance among public secondary school students in West-Pokot county, Kenya, to establish the effect of chronic truancy on academic performance among public secondary school students in West-Pokot county, Kenya, and to find out the effect of casual truancy on academic performance among public secondary school students in West Pokot county, Kenya. The study found that students who engage in truant behavior fall behind academically and eventually drop out of school. They also attribute their frequent truancy to peer pressure, their socioeconomic status, and their subpar academic performance. The study recommends that in order to eradicate all forms of absenteeism, the school administration should act immediately. Peer counselling, in addition to providing students with professional assistance and counselling services, can help achieve this.