Absenteeism: a study on causes and effects towards UiTM Sarawak students performance / Latifah Moksen, Noorfasyiha Mohamed & Nurazrin Bujang

This study was carried out to identify the most factors that cause the student absenteeism and the effects towards their performance. The 100 respondents are comes from UiTM students in Sarawak Campus. The research was conducted by giving out the questionnaire to respondents for different courses, age, background and etcetera. A set of questionnaire was designed to gain primary data from the respondents about the factors that influence their performance the most. The overall findings of the study indicates that individual factor such as laziness, not interested to study and overslept was the most factors that majority of students experience while achieving some certain level of performance. In conclusions, some suggestions have been made to enhance the achievement of students and recommendation for future research has also been included in the final part of the report.