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Kearney, Christopher A.; Childs, Joshua – Improving Schools, 2023
School attendance and absenteeism are critical targets of educational policies and practices that often depend heavily on aggregated attendance/absenteeism data. School attendance/absenteeism data in aggregated form, in addition to having suspect quality and utility, minimizes individual student variation, distorts detailed and multilevel…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Attendance, Educational Policy, Causal Models
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Quintana, Rafael – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Causal search algorithms have been effectively applied in different fields including biology, genetics, climate science, medicine, and neuroscience. However, there have been scant applications of these methods in social and behavioral sciences. This article provides an illustrative example of how causal search algorithms can shed light on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Algorithms, Social Problems