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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Student absenteeism"”.
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Chronic student absenteeism: implications for school leaders
Consistent school attendance is critical if students are to build and maintain a foundation for ongoing learning and academic success throughout life. When students are not in attendance, they miss essential instruction, which often times cannot be replicated. They miss the incidental learning that …
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Principals' Indications of Effective Strategies and Interventions to Decrease Chronic Student Absenteeism in Virginia's High Schools
… strategies and interventions to reduce chronic student absenteeism. Research has shown chronic student absenteeism is highest among high school students (Stronge and Associates, 2019; U.S. Department of Education, n.d.), and effects may include low academic achievement, possible high school …
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Examining Truancy Board Effectiveness in Countering Student Absenteeism in Grades K-5 in Three Title I Schools in Northeast Tennessee.
… the use of a truancy board and the number of student absences in K - 5 students in 3 Title I schools in northeast Tennessee. Absences were compiled on students who attended the same elementary school over the 4 years of the study, 2003-2004 through 2006-2007. Two years of absences were …
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The Short-Term Effects of Student Absences on Student Math Growth and the Moderator Effects of Student Achievement Levels
… study examined the short-term effects of student absences on student math growth and the moderator effects of student achievement levels on fourth and fifth grade students at a high-performing elementary school in central Massachusetts. Through independent-samples t-tests and moderation …
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The Wentzville Plan for Improving Student Attendance and its Effect on Low-, Average-, and High-Attenders
… answers to the following questions: (1) did student attendance improve after the implementationn of the Wentzville Plan"; and (2) did student achievement improve after the implementation of the "Wentzville Plan"? Procedure. All students who were in attendance at Wentzville High School during …
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Examining The Effects Of Student And Teacher Absence On Elementary Student Reading Proficiency
… indicates a relationship between chronic student absenteeism and chronic teacher absenteeism with regard to student achievement. However, those two potential predictors are rarely explored in the same study. In addition, building or district absence rates are often utilized instead of …
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Attendance Matters! A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>This three-part dissertation concentrates on student attendance. It is clear that we have a student attendance problem in our nation, particularly in urban school districts. There have been other studies, discussions, and debates on how to improve student attendance, but identifying a single …
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Attendance Matters! We Must Decrease Student Truancy and Absenteeism
<p>This three-part dissertation concentrates on student attendance. It is clear that we have a student attendance problem in our nation, particularly in urban school districts. There have been other studies, discussions, and debates on how to improve student attendance, but identifying a single …
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A national study of the urban high school principalship
… the principals themselves, their schools, students and communities, and the professional growth needs of the principals. The study will also serve as a resource for the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Urban Schools Committee as it develops programs and activities to …
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An Evaluation of the Attendance Policy and Program and Its Perceived Effects on High School Attendance in Newport News Public Schools
… high school population of approximately 5,820 students. The school district recently implemented a new attendance policy and program to address high school student absenteeism. This multi-faceted study examined the effects of this new policy by conducting statistical analyses of attendance …
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The nurse educators' perception of their clinical instruction role
… in the education and training programme of student nurses undergoing a basic nursing course. The findings indicated that nurse educators perceive assessment, designing of instructional plans, implementation, evaluation and record-keeping in clinical instruction as their ideal functions. The …
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Summer Credit Recovery and Middle Grade Students
… of this study was to examine the difference in student success by retained students who participate in the Hamblen County (Tennessee) Credit Recovery Program [HCCRP] in the year prior and following their participation. HCCRP is an alternative intervention for students who have been retained in …
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Do After-School Performing Arts Programs Impact Student Attendance?
<p>This three-part dissertation concentrates on student attendance. It is clear that we have a student attendance problem in our nation, particularly in urban school districts. There have been other studies, discussions, and debates on how to improve student attendance, but identifying a single …
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Why do students miss lectures? : An exploratory study of a faculty at a post 1992 university
… number of factors are known to be influential on student absenteeism, but little work has been undertaken into understanding this behaviour at a more conceptualised level. In the UK, it appears that only one small scale study has been undertaken into reasons for absenteeism specifically from …
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A multiple case study exploring middle school attendance barriers and challenges.
… success (Pascopella, 2007; Rothman, 2001). Students achieve best when invested in their education. Four misconceptions result in student absenteeism: myths about attendance, barriers to attendance, aversions to school, and disengagement from school (Attendance Works, 2014b). Many families …
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A Comparative Analysis Of Tardiness Policies Of Elementary Schools
<p>Previous research has shown that student tardiness has been a challenge for educators as far back as the institution of modern schooling. While there has been considerable research about student absenteeism, student tardiness remains an under researched area, particularly at the elementary …
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Variables That Impact The Implementation Of Project-Based Learning In High School Science
… that must be addressed if we are to improve student achievement. Educational reform efforts have been initiated to improve student performance and to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for student achievement (Wagner et al., 2006). Specifically, in the area of science, goals for …
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Essays on Education Policy
… mechanism through which the policy should affect student outcomes is through the mix of the quality of teachers in the school. Using publicly available statewide administrative education data, and two quasi-experimental methodologies, I assess whether the policy had an effect on the district-wide …
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Contributions of community education to community development: a case study of a community education and training centre, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
… for community development through the lens of students and lecturers at a community education and training centre in eNkanjini Village, located in the Big Five Hlabisa Municipality of Northern KwaZulu-Natal. This qualitative study is embedded in an interpretive research paradigm as it allows …