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Játiva, Ximena; Karamperidou, Despina; Mills, Michelle; Vindrola, Stefania; Wedajo, Hanna; Dsouza, Andrea; Bergmann, Jessica – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Teachers are the most important drivers of students' academic achievement and they are at the heart of learning recovery efforts. Finding out the bottlenecks and necessary conditions for ensuring teachers' presence at school and in the classroom is essential. Time to Teach is a mixed methods research initiative that aims to find out the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attendance, Influences
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UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa, the loss of teaching hours due to teacher absenteeism corresponds to a waste of approximately 46 cents for every US dollar invested in education, an annual wastage of 1-3% of GDP. This brief summarizes the results of research in 11 countries in West and Central Africa under the Time to Teach study, a project in UNICEF that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Absenteeism, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Attendance
Schwartz, Kate – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Most efforts to improve school settings and increase student learning assume adequately trained and knowledgeable teachers with the personal capacity and professional support to effectively implement new programs. This is unlikely to be true in under-resourced communities where teachers face a range of personal and professional barriers to…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Educational Quality, Intervention, Faculty Development
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Segbenya, Moses; Oduro, George Kwaku Toku; Peniana, Fred; Ghansah, Kwesi – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the proximity of study centres to the students of College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast (CoDE/UCC) and whether further studies of distance learners who were teachers and employees could lead to absenteeism in their workplaces. Design/methodology/approach: A sequential…
Descriptors: College Choice, Distance Education, Proximity, School Location
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Tamanja, Emmanuel Makabu J. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Continuous professional development of teachers plays a crucial role in improving learning outcomes in schools. This study investigated how teaching time is lost when teachers absent themselves to participate in sandwich programmes to upgrade themselves in the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in Ghana. Using a survey of 475 teachers pursuing…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance, Teacher Surveys
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Akseer, Spogmai; Játiva, Ximena – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
Education has been a priority for Ghana since its independence, with current expenditures representing double the average for Africa and other developing nations. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government aimed to enhance the quality of education and teacher attendance, including improving school infrastructure and providing textbooks and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attendance, Time Management, Teacher Behavior
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Donkor, Anthony Kudjo; Waek, Biliman Izal – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent of community members' involvement in school activities to enhance teacher attendance in the East Mamprusi District of Northern Ghana. The research design was a survey. Stratified sampling method was employed to group the study population into five (5) strata of teaching staff, SMC/PTA…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Foreign Countries, School Activities, Teacher Attitudes
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Wolf, Sharon – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
There is growing concern that teachers in low-income countries are increasingly demotivated, which may partially explain deteriorating teaching performance and student learning outcomes, high rates of turnover and absenteeism, and misconduct. At the same time, remarkably little systematic research has examined the living and working conditions for…
Descriptors: Low Income, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation
Alhassan, Seidu; Adzahlie-Mensah, Vincent – Online Submission, 2010
This paper provides insights about the specific impact teachers' actions and attitudes can have on access to schooling. The paper reports how teachers' irregular attendance, lateness and absenteeism as well as misuse of instructional hours and indiscriminate use of corporal punishment contribute to pupils' irregular attendance and dropping out. It…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Teacher Role