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James Bear Mahowald; Sarah Winchell Lenhoff; Erica B. Edwards; Jeremy Singer – High School Journal, 2023
Since the incorporation of student chronic absenteeism rates into state school accountability systems after the passage of the "Every Student Succeeds Act," schools have adopted new practices to improve student attendance and decrease chronic absenteeism. Some of these practices borrow features from behavior management systems such as…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Correctional Institutions, Student Behavior, Discipline
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Petrucci, Carrie J.; Rivera-Figueroa, Armando M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
A realist evaluation framework asks what works best for whom under what circumstances. This study utilized a realist evaluation framework to determine which students benefited under what circumstances from supplemental instruction, an academic support program using peer-assisted problem-solving techniques. The study setting was a large urban…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Supplementary Education, STEM Education, Two Year College Students
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Jenkins, Andrew – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
The literature on educational choices and participation has tended to focus on youth and to some extent on older adults, with little attention to the group in between. This paper therefore analyses participation in various types of learning by people in their 30s and 40s. This group are often juggling career and family life commitments meaning…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Student Participation, Adults, Predictor Variables
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Stevenson, Nathan A.; Swain-Bradway, Jessica; LeBeau, Brandon C. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
There is a well-known positive relation between student engagement and a host of school outcomes. The following article describes a study that explores a commonly used tool for measuring engagement in high schools. Specifically, this study examined internal validity, factor structure, and the relation between factors of engagement (e.g., social,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learner Engagement, Dropout Prevention, Student Evaluation
Tiffany Bonds Mason – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Schools are frequently seen as the hubs of the community, providing resources and a gathering place for members of the community. The process of surveying the community in order to identify unique needs within the community, and then intentionally forging partnerships capable of ameliorating the specific needs, are strategies used by community…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Schools, Comparative Analysis, Public Schools
National Center for Homeless Education, 2022
In the past ten years, chronic absenteeism has attracted increasing attention. Research correlates chronic absenteeism with lower standardized test scores and grade point averages. Chronic absenteeism also correlates with higher rates of grade retention and dropping out (UEPC, 2012). Being present in school is a necessary precondition to receiving…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Federal Legislation, At Risk Students, Attendance Patterns
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Gago-Galvagno, Lucas G.; Miller, Stephanie E.; De Grandis, María C.; Elgier, Ángel M. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Several studies have analysed the impact of attending early childhood education centres on communication, regulatory skills and social-emotional development. These educational institutions have increased in presence annually, partially due to the access of women to the labour market. It has been found that infant education may modulate development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Infants, Mothers
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De Gregorio, Soledad; Dhaliwal, Tasminda K.; Owens, Ann; Painter, Gary – Educational Researcher, 2022
As student homelessness grows, little is known about how the timing and duration of homeless experiences shape K-12 outcomes. Using Los Angeles Unified School District administrative data, the authors examine whether these temporal dimensions of homelessness predict students' achievement and attendance. The authors find that homeless students…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Students, Homeless People, Time Factors (Learning)
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Mitra, Sugata; Dangwal, Ritu – Prospects, 2022
The "hole-in-the-wall" experiments of 1999, as named by the popular media, started with an Internet-connected computer being embedded in a wall facing a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, India. Several studies showed that groups of children, when given access to the Internet, can learn by themselves. Children's academic marks improved, and…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Internet, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
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Edwards, Danielle Sanderson – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2022
School transportation may increase student outcomes by providing a reliable and safe means of getting to and from school. Little evidence of the effects of such policies exists. In this paper, I provide some of the first causal evidence of transportation impacts on student attendance and achievement using a rich panel of student-level enrollment…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
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Jonas Højgaard Frydenlund – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The idea that we ought to help young people with underlying issues, rather than simply pressure them back to school has gained traction in the literature on absence from school. However, this discussion has not considered how help and control are intertwined. The following is a Foucault inspired qualitative study of absence interventions in a…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Student Behavior, Intervention
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Keyser, Robert S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2019
A correlation analysis of absenteeism and course grades was conducted for a third-year industrial engineering course. Thirty-nine students in the class were informed that attendance would be taken for purposes of this study but that attendance records would not affect their course grade. A negative correlation was found between students'…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Grades (Scholastic), Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
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Kaushik, Asha; Kumar, Nagendra; Kumar, Pankaj – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
The aim of this research work is to find out a relation between the class attendance of the Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) students and their academic attainment in face-to-face lectures and in labs. In addition, a survey has been conducted to know the issues faced by the students about partially compulsory attendance policy. Findings of this…
Descriptors: College Students, Compulsory Education, Attendance Patterns, Academic Achievement
Komisarow, Sarah; Hemelt, Steven W. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs) provide students with access to healthcare during the…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Access to Health Care, Medicine, Telecommunications
Backes, Ben; Hansen, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This paper examines the impact of Teach For America (TFA) on following-year student test and non-test outcomes in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This paper measures the extent to which exposure to TFA is followed by improved student outcomes in the future. In particular, this paper measures days missed due to absences or suspensions, course…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged
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