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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"school absenteeism"”.
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Elementary School Absenteeism and Truancy: Perceptions and Responses of Chicago Principals Under School Reform
… interview and survey data indicated that local schools had not fully understood, internalized, nor accepted their site-based responsibilities regarding attendance and truancy issues. Major findings included: (1) Principals tended to perceive truancy and absenteeism to be more serious throughout …
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Data-driven analytics to explore associations between risk and protective factors and school absenteeism for secondary school students
Study PurposeChronic absenteeism (CA) is an administrative term defining extreme failure for students to be present at school. CA is recognized as a national problem in the U.S. that has devastating long-term impacts on students. However, in consideration of what counts as students missing school, …
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Using information technology to model hand-washing behavior and to improve policies impacting elementary school absenteeism due to influenza
… assist in improving health policy to decrease absenteeism among elementary students. The primary question posed was as following: “What is the e?ect of hand hygiene on the possible incidence rates among school children?” After creating an agent-based model representing the in?uenza transmission …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… the impact of exposure to neighborhood crime on school absenteeism, respectively.</p> <p>The first chapter studies the labor market effects of a wage subsidy introduced in Colombia's First Job Act. It exploits changes in the labor earnings distribution to measure how the policy change affected …
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Understanding the relationship between anxiety, cognitive processing, and school attendance: a developmental perspective
School absenteeism can have serious implications for the individual. Young people who display school refusal behaviour (child-motivated absence that is often underpinned by anxiety) present an ongoing challenge to professionals. Previous research has found an association between anxiety, cognition, …
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Chronic Absenteeism: Application of a Response to Intervention Tier 3 Intervention in a Midwest Rural High School
… to Intervention (RTI) intervention utilizing school social workers and school attendance hearings on school absenteeism rates and grade point average (GPA) for renewed progress toward graduation at a Midwestern high school. RTI is a systematic approach used by schools to apply an intervention …
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Prevalence and individual risk factors associated with non-specific low back pain among secondary school adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe
… reduced health-related quality of life, and school absenteeism. In-spite of such evidence, no studies have been conducted in Zimbabwe to investigate the subjective presence of NSLBP symptoms among school-aged adolescents and to screen adolescents in schools affected by the condition in an …
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An exploration of schooling experiences of persons living with severe haemophilia in the Western Cape, South Africa
This retrospective study explores the schooling experiences of learners living with the chronic health condition, haemophilia, which is a bleeding disorder. Descriptive and Interpretive phenomenological analyses were used as theoretical, methodological, and analytical tools to explore the schooling …
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Paauglių (ne)noro mokytis priežastys: mokinių ir mokytojų vertinimas /
Constantly changing society and, therefore, the school sought new ways of education reforms aimed at - independent, the school itself reveals personality with lifelong learning provision. One of the reasons for the failure of education - the lack of motivation to learn. Educators and parents are …
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Factors associated with substance use amongst secondary school learners in the Thulamela Municipality of the Limpopo Province
… alcohol and tobacco cigarettes by secondary school learners is considered as a health risk behavior worldwide. The use of substances continues to predispose the young generation to the risks of mental illness, depression, physical illness, and academic regression, traffic accidents, breaking …
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Parental instruction regarding appropriate asthma management
… room visits, fewer hospitalizations, less school absenteeism, use of more non-routine medication, and fewer phone calls to the emergency room and the physician's office than those children whose parents did not receive the instruction. A secondary purpose was to determine if mothers who …
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Factors which aid or inhibit peer-to-peer interaction during Project Based Learning in a virtual high school for anxious school refusers: a case study in the United Kingdom
The prevalence of adolescent school absenteeism due to severe bullying in the UK exceeds 16 000 young people, and the occurrence of anxious school refusers (including self-exclusion due to bullying) is a well-documented issue that transcends geographical borders. The research context for this study …
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Growing up in times of change: Adolescents in post-conflict northern Uganda. A long-term intergenerational study on the effect of family violence on adolescent psychopathological development and future expectations after war
… of adaptive or maladaptive development (school absenteeism, externalizing behavior, optimistic future expectations, community integration) at the individual, dyadic and social levels. Methods In 2010, 2012, and 2016, epidemiological interviews were conducted with 368 northern Ugandan …
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School Building Condition and Student Achievement and Chronic Absenteeism in Urban High Schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… between the overall, structural, and cosmetic school building conditions and student achievement and chronic absenteeism of students who attend urban high schools located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This study utilized the Revised Commonwealth Appraisal of the Physical Environment (CAPE), …
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Evaluation of Valley Healthcare System Inc. School-Based Health Clinic/Center at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary School in Columbus, Georgia
<p>School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are an important strategy for addressing health disparities and improving educational outcomes among underserved students. In Columbus, Georgia, barriers such as limited insurance, transportation challenges, and provider shortages contribute to unmet health …
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Roll Call: A Scoping Review for School Attendance Problems Among Youth
Regular school attendance is central to the psychosocial development of youth. Youth who frequently miss school face adverse consequences, including lower academic achievement, impaired socio-emotional development, mental health difficulties, and increased health risk behaviors. The emergence of …
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The Effects of Health-Related Fitness on School Attendance in New York City 6th-8th Grade Youth
… absent, meaning that they miss ≥10% of the school year (or ≥20 days of school per year). Moreover, 20-30% of students in high-poverty, urban school districts do not attend school regularly (≥6 days absent per year). To the author’s knowledge, this is the first multi-year study on the …