CHAPTER 2

Review of Related Literature ( RRL )

Chapter two will provide a synthesis that supports the evaluation of the study about the
reasons of the students who did cutting class. Always cutting classes and not getting to school on
time are two of the crucial determining factors of a student’s success. Given the importance of
being punctual, this study aimts to explore and find out what triggers the students to cut class and
also how it affects their academic performance and daily life. From reliable research materials
like online journals and research papers, we will provide some facts and theories from authors,
teachers, and notable people in order to have a concrete justification of our study.

An accessible business school population of undergraduate students was investigated in

three independent, but related studies to determine effects on grades due to cutting class and
failing to take advantage of optional reviews and study quizzes. It was hypothesized that cutting
classes harms exam scores, attending preexam reviews helps exam scores, taking optional exam
preparation quizzes helps exam scores, and earlier exam scores in the semester predict later exam
scores. Using an objective measurement method of actual events and actual exam scores instead
of the predominant nonexperimental survey method most often used, it was found that all
hypotheses were significant and supported in the predicted direction. Implications for professors
and students are provided, revealing that cutting class, missing preexam reviews, and ignoring
chapter quizzes effects are real and they matter.

We will study the factors that triggers the students into cutting classes theories are social
interactions, academic performance, romantic relationship, family problem, and work.

In social interactions with other students could affect the confidence of the students or
possibly be influenced by their friends and fellow classmates. “If acting self-confident people
automatically assumed that the person was truly just that, self-confident. Acting” – Keli Chaffin
(2004). Therefore, students who doesn’t have much self-esteem are mostly the one who are
easily convinced in cutting classes could be either because of pressure in classroom, teacher,
professor or anyone ahead of them.

In academic performance every students that are “academically challenged” are tend to
be pressured in the task that teachers assigned them to do. There are different ways a person
think and they have different intellectual capacity. Usually in every classroom it is divided into
smartest to average and those who are smart enough somehow rules the classroom and
everybody respect their mental capabilities. And when two intellectual person abreast each other
in midst of studies tendencies are they would be competing in order to know who’s better. At this
time, students whom struggles to keep would lose the interest in studying since they are
bombarded with different assignments to pass on time. It triggers them to cut class to as if it is
their “scapegoat” to free up some pressure in their mind. “Where does one go from the bottom?
You hit the bottom of the well and what? People say the only place to go is up, but they seem to
ignore how long you can spend wallowing in the muck at the bottom of the well.” – Keli Chaffin
(2005).

In romantic relationship, since most of the students are already in the puberty stage it is
then ideal to them to take admiration towards the person they like into next the level sometimes
this is one of the reason which makes them to cut their class. In addition, once they are
committed in such relationship it is like they are already bound to hold such responsible in meet
the desire their partner holds. One thing to make a relationship stronger and alive is to satisfy
them with all their needs. And that is also when they’ve become independent on the way they
think and the way they act towards one another just only wishing what’s best for them both. “I
had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.” –
Magenta Periwinkle (2005).

In family problem, the researchers believe that everyone has their own problem and most
of the time it’s in their household. Broken family, financial problem, and all sorts that likely
came from their own household. Your personality will likely be influenced in how you used to
be in your home so it affects a great deal of your personal preference in daily life. When people
experience problems at home they are tend to be distracted at all times through out the day
depends on how extreme the problem is. Just like in academic performance, they would wish to
buy some time for their own to think properly. Which is why they tend to cut their classes
anytime. Henceforth, cutting classes is the only scapegoat they have “I had too many questions
and no answers.” – Ruther Balmond (2007).
 Lastly, work, with your young age some students are obliged to take part-time job to
meet the financial needs they have to pay. Financially it is a problem on everyone, some students
chose to be a working student in order to help their parents to pay for thei tuition and studies this
also cause them to split their time into studying and working. Time distribution is likely to
happen, this is an all-out effort studying in the morning and working at night shift is very
stressful and fatigue breaking. If one’s body cannot attain into overdoing themselves it will
surely come into the conclusion that one day they’ll just be exhausted and would rather rest. And
most of the time it is the school days they sacrifice to skip, because they also benefit in work by
getting salary. Some of them are also influenced by the salary they are getting into which makes
them choose to work and stop studying. “I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than
that of the unicorns and puppies.” – Magenta Periwinkle (2001).