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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Truant"”.
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Project Reconnect Program: Engaging Truant Adolescents through Pre-Court Diversion
… has failed to examine middle and high school truants’ perceptions regarding how well truancy diversion court programs improve school attendance and performance. As a result, the purpose of this study was to examine participants’ perceptions regarding how well the Project Reconnect Diversion …
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On Being a Truant: A Phenomenological Study of Students in a Comprehensive High School
… This dissertation researched truancy from the truant's point of view. It was an attempt to humanize the definition of what it means to be a truant. The findings of the study suggest that an absent/truant pattern identifies potential dropouts. In addition, an absent/truant pattern suggests that …
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Home and school factors associated with high school truancy in a southeastern Virginia urban school district
… been related to truancy are perceived by chronic truant students; additionally, the researcher wanted to know how demographic differences among chronic truant students (i.e., gender, socio-economic status, parental education, and their own education aspirations) related to these attitudes. The …
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A two year study using reality therapy as a method of counseling truant high school students in an opportunity class
… control his response to the stimulus causing his truant behavior?
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Penerapan konseling individual dalam membantu mengatasi perilaku membolos siswa: Studi kasus di SMKN 2 Malang
… by the emotional side . 58 % of students who do truant habitual in SMKN 2 Malang that the longer the truancy rate increased from 42 % to 58 % . therefore the need to control individual counseling is significant, in order to help individuals to achieve optimal growth, as the problems solutions …
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An analysis of high school policies and practices on truancy and attendance rates within Educational Service Center 9
… average daily attendance, truancy, chronic truant, truant minor, dropout, and graduation rates were calculated from data reported to the state of Illinois since the reform of 1985. Changes in the rates were studied by reflecting upon the high school's emphasis upon punitive, support, or …
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The Teacher-Police-School-Community Scale and the Prediction of School Suspensions and Truancy
… school records used to classify each student as truant or non-truant, and suspended or nonsuspended. It was a basic assumption underlying the analyses of these data that the samples being compared were from the same population. However, analysis by means of a t test indicated that significantly …
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Defining Truancy and Dealing with It Effectively
… and analyzing the factors which are related to truant behavior are the problems viewed by this study. Procedure. All of the secondary public school administrators from the Central Iowa Conference Schools were sent questionnaires which dealt with the truancy problems in their schools. Findings. …
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Home Schooling in Illinois: A Study of the Perceptions of the State Regional Superintendents of Schools
… the picture of home schooling in this state. As truant officers, the state's regional superintendents of schools have perceptions different from other subjects.
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Critical Reflections: Interviews with Parents Regarding Truancy
… perspectives of minority parents of habitually truant elementary school students on truancy. The key question was if school attendance review board letters sent to truant families monthly effectively resolved truancy at the school in this study. This study captured the voices of parents using …
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Contributing Factors to the Prevalence of Student Truancy among Community Secondary Schools in Tanzania: A Case Study of Schools in Mbeya Districts
… has shown to have negative consequences to truant students including poor academic performance, indulgence in criminal behaviour and school dropout. The study found a number of possible approaches which schools could adopt to reduce truant behaviour in community secondary schools such as …
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Truancy Intervention: A Study of Dallas Independent School District Participants in the Dallas Challenge Truancy and Class C Enforcement Center
… efforts. The analysis provides a profile of truant participants referred to the program and factors that correlate to successful completion of the program requirements. The results will be applicable to the study program as evaluation research and will be generalized for application to other …
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Impact of Schools' Social Bonding on Chronic Truancy: Perceptions of Middle School Principals
… Yet, one in every 100 US students is truant. Among students ages 14-17, the number of truants is one in 10. In one township in Indiana, one in every three students is a chronic truant. Understanding why children disengage from school before reaching the compulsory attendance age of 16 …
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Combating School Truancy: Current Practices and Recommendations for Improvement
… for the U.S. educational system and our society. Truant students suffer negative effects not only in their education, but also in their potential future financial earnings and even their life expectancy. Despite the recognition of the problem in the United States, efforts to curb truancy have …
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An investigation into truancy reduction without increasing the drop out rate
… activities are significantly less likely to be truant.</p> <p>One of the intern's conclusions is that school districts with below average attendance rates should enhance the offerings they make to students concerning extracurricular activities.</p>
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An Examination of the Relationship Between High School Seniors and High School Seniors Participating in a Multi-Year, Looping, School-Based Mentoring Program
… secondary school students were more likely to be truant than primary school students which lead to students dropping out of school and becoming less productive citizens as adults. Researchers have also shown that participation in a school-based mentoring program can positively influence the …
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The impact of reading disabilities (dyslexia) on the academic achievement of the primary school learner
… Ultimately drop out of school. Play truant Shirk their school work. Absent themselves from school. Nevertheless, educators need to create a stimulating atmosphere, to exploit reinforcement strategies and set good examples, such as: Tangible motivators, for example, stars, …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… “garden queer” of McKay’s 1932 short story “The Truant” and the Bronx Park excursion in Michael Gold’s 1930 Jews without Money show the trope’s continuing political evolution across migration narratives, Harlem Renaissance poetry, and ethnic proletarian literature. Connecting the Harlem …