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Below is a list of research related to attendance

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Your work and passion for student attendance was what got me interested in studying it and wanting to focus my academic work on chronic absenteeism. Your 2011 article inspired me to get involved in chronic absenteeism research, and most importantly, encouraged me to focus on solutions to addressing the ‘problem hidden in plain sight.’ Thank you so much for the work you do with your team at Attendance Works."
— Joshua Childs, Assistant Professor, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin
The reports on this page are listed alphabetically and examine the issue of chronic absence nationwide and in selected communities. Use the search box to find research using the author name. See the early education, elementary, secondary and other research categories on the right. To submit new research, please contact us.

Intervening through Influential Third Parties:Reducing Student Absences at Scale via Parents

Rogers, Todd and Avi Feller. Working Paper, 2017. This study analyzed whether information sent home to caregivers of K-12 students could impact chronic absence. Carefully worded messages on postcards reminded parents of the importance of absences and of their ability to influence them, added information about students’ total absences, or added the number of absences among target students’ classmates. The…
Published:   April 2017

Just the Right Mix: Identifying Potential Dropouts in Montgomery County Public Schools Using an Early Warning Indicators Approach

West, Thomas C. Office of Shared Accountability, Montgomery County Public Schools, MD, March 2013. Each school year, roughly a thousand students drop out of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). However, unlike other large, urban school districts where students who drop out skip school and are suspended often (Balfanz & Byrnes, 2010), students who drop out of MCPS are present in…
Published:   March 2013

Kindergarten Attendance and Readiness for Baltimore’s Class of 2027

Grigg, Jeffrey and Faith Connolly, Stephanie D’Souza, Charlie Mitchell. Baltimore Education Research Consortium, Baltimore, MD., March, 2015. This brief examines kindergarten readiness and attendance in kindergarten for children enrolled in publicly provided early education programs as well as similar children who entered kindergarten without enrolling in these programs. The brief finds that children enrolled in these programs are more likely…
Published:   March 2015

Learning from the “Reducing Barriers to School Attendance” initiative

Torres, K., Rooney, K., Gandi, E. and Holmgren, M. Education Northwest, December 2020. In 2017, KPNW contracted with Education Northwest to conduct a three-year external evaluation of the Reducing Barriers to Attendance initiative. This report summarizes changes to KPNW grantee activities, capacities, and partnerships in the third and final year of the project. It aims to provide insight on efforts…
Published:   March 2021

Linking Teacher Quality, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement

Gershenson, Seth. Education Finance and Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 125-149. Spring 2016. This paper estimates teacher effects on primary school student absences using a value-added framework using five years of public school data from North Carolina, and finds that teachers have statistically significant effects on student absences similar in magnitude to their effects on reading test scores.
Published:   April 2016

Long-Term Effects of Truancy Diversion on School Attendance: a Quasi-Experimental Study with Linked Administrative Data

Clea A. McNeely, Won Fy Lee, et. al., Prevention Science. Over 60% of US school districts implement court diversion programs to address chronic unexcused absenteeism, yet the effectiveness of these programs is not known. The study evaluated whether the Truancy Intervention Program (TIP) improved school attendance of students in grades 7–10 in a metropolitan county in the US Midwest.
Published:   July 2019
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