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Direct linkSophia K. Allmond – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Nationally, school divisions are examining data to address chronic absenteeism, identifying root causes of absenteeism and developing strategies to intervene to reduce student absenteeism. A data element often overlooked in school divisions' conversations about chronic absenteeism is the number of withdrawals and school transfers students make…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Student Mobility, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedAlmutawa, Abdullah; Suwaidan, Mishiel Said – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: The purposes of this study are to identify the reasons that prevent students from attending lectures, to examine the impact of absenteeism on their academic performance and to explore the role of gender in their attendance. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire survey made up of statements was distributed to accounting students.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attendance, Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns
Moyi, Peter – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Sierra Leone was ravaged by a civil war between 1991 and 2002. Since the end of the war, it has witnessed an unprecedented increase in school enrollments. Although school enrollment has increased, the number of school age children who are out of school remains high. The focus of international agencies is on children of primary school age, yet a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Attendance, Graduation Rate, Foreign Countries
Hastings, Justine S.; Neilson, Christopher A.; Zimmerman, Seth D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
Using data on student outcomes and school choice lotteries from a low-income urban school district, we examine how school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school and peer inputs. First we use unique daily data on individual-level student absences and suspensions to show…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Magnet Schools, Student Behavior
Kiprianos, Pandelis; Daskalaki, Ivi; Stamelos, Georgios B. – International Review of Education, 2012
This article examines the degree of integration of Roma and Gypsy children in formal education in the Peloponnese region of Greece. It is based on field research conducted by the University of Patras during the school year 2006/07 within the framework of the Greek Ministry of Education's "Integration of Roma children in school"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Children, School Desegregation, Attendance
Ndetei, David M.; Khasakhala, Lincoln I.; Mutiso, Victoria; Ongecha-Owuor, Francisca A.; Kokonya, Donald A. – Substance Abuse, 2009
The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of family, psychosocial, health, demographic, and behavioral characteristics on regular drug use. All the students of 17 randomly stratified public secondary schools in Nairobi were required to complete self-administered sociodemographic and the Drug Use Screening Inventory-Revised (DUSI-R)…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Boarding Schools, Attendance, Drug Abuse
Download full textde Guzman, Sylvia – Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, 2007
The Civil Society Network for Education Reforms (E-Net Philippines), a network of organizations pushing for Education for All, believes that years of underinvestment and neglect of the public education system have caused the country's dismal education performance. This critique provided a framework for engaging with DepEd and the Legislature,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Access to Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Foster, Emery M.; Herlihy, Lester B.; Comstock, Lula M.; Isdell, Julia E.; Choate, Blache K.; Smith, Rose Marie; Deffenbaugh, Walter S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
This report presents statistics of city public-school systems for the year 1933-34. It also presents, in connection with the text, data on certain points to show trends within the past 10 years, and especially within the past 4 years when the effects of the depression were being felt by the schools. In previous reports statistics for cities…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Annual Reports, School Surveys, School Statistics
