The Orang Asli are not ethnically homogeneous, and are officially classified into three main ethnolinguistic groups, namely the Senoi, Proto-Malays and the Negritos, each consisting of several dialectic subgroups.

Orang Asli communities are concentrated in selected states based on their ethnic groups, with the Senoi predominantly residing in Perak and Pahang, the Proto Malays in Pahang, Johor, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor, and the Negritos in Kelantan, Perak and Pahang.

THE IMPACT OF STUDENT ATTENDANCE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND MOBILITY ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OF THIRD GRADE STUDENTS IN TITLE I SCHOOLS By D.

Jean Jones Abstract Today, regular school attendance is an important factor in school success (Rothman, 2001).

A stratified two-stage cluster sampling design was used to recruit 2650 English-speaking adults, aged 20-65, who were residents of private dwellings and able to walk without assistance.

The study sample was drawn from residential addresses within 154 census collection districts (CCD) and classified based on their objective walkability characteristics and socio-economic status (SES) into four strata: high walkable/ high SES; low walkable/ high SES; high walkable/ low SES; and low walkable/ low SES.

With the increase in accountability for school districts in Virginia surrounding the Standards of Learning (SOL) test and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation of 2001, educators are faced with a significant challenge to reduce the rate of absenteeism to increase studentsâ achievement in school.

â Students who are absent from school receive fewer hours of instruction; they often leave education early and are more likely to become long term unemployed, homeless, caught in the poverty trap, dependent on welfare and involved in the justice systemâ (House of Representatives, 1996 p. Researchers have sought to find factors that contribute to student non-attendance (Odell, 1923; Reid, 1999; Mitchell, 1993).

I hereby grant to Virginia Tech or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known.OBJECTIVES Adopting a multilevel ecological model of physical activity behavior, we examined socio-economic, psychosocial and environmental correlates of perceived barriers to participation in regular physical activity; whether any socio-economic differences in perceived barriers could be explained by psychosocial and environmental factors; and whether perceived barriers to physical activity could explain the observed relationships between indicators of socio-economic status (SES) and leisure-time and transport-related physical activity.METHODS This study used cross-sectional self-report data collected from the Physical Activity in Localities and Community Environments (PLACE) study in Adelaide, Australia.This study investigates the impact of student attendance, socio-economic status and mobility on student achievement of third grade students in two Title I schools in a Southeastern Virginia School District, with grades PK-3, as determined by the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) English and math tests scores.I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below.