The Effects of Class Attendance on Academic Achievement and the Views of Preservice Teachers about Attendance and Absenteeism

It is an important element that students should attend the class regularly to be successful in all educational institutions practicing formal education. The aim of the research is to stduy the relation between the academic achievement and class attendance rank of 46 preservice teachers attending the 4th grade of the department of science education in primary education in Pamukkale University. This reserach in which the mixed method was used adopted both quantitative adn qualitative research techniques. In this research survey model is adopted from the point of quantitative method and case study model is adopted from the point of qualitative method. The paradigm of the reserach from the point of quantitative method is constituted by science preservice teachers taking astronomy lessons. Intentional sample selection is adopted in the reserach. The data of the reserach gathered adopting the technique semistructured interview techniques from the point of qualitative method. The semi-structured interviews are recorded by tape recorder, then, the research data is observed as thematic turning the records into detailed written documentary and content is analysed.