The Effect of Attendance upon School Achievement

Odell, Charles Watters

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“…These studies, particularly those which controlled for the effects of intelli gence, revealed either no meaningful correlation between elementary school attendance and attainment (Denworth, 1928;Heilman, 1928;O'Brian, 1928) or only very small ones (Odell, 1923;Ziegler, 1928). Fifty years later the research findings were slightly more optimistic in that Frederick and Walberg (1980) identified four articles, includ ing one by Wiley and Harnischfeger (1974), which revealed significant correlations between days of instruction and elementary school pupil achievement.…”

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“…Although school attendance became compulsory in the Western World in the second half of the 19th century, as revealed by BEI, ERIC and PsycINFO database searches up to March 2009, it was not until the 1920s that studies of the effect on attainments of elementary school attendance and, by implication, school absence, were carried out. These studies, particularly those which controlled for the effects of intelli gence, revealed either no meaningful correlation between elementary school attendance and attainment (Denworth, 1928;Heilman, 1928;O'Brian, 1928) or only very small ones (Odell, 1923;Ziegler, 1928). Fifty years later the research findings were slightly more optimistic in that Frederick and Walberg (1980) identified four articles, includ ing one by Wiley and Harnischfeger (1974), which revealed significant correlations between days of instruction and elementary school pupil achievement.…”

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The Effect of Pupil Absenteeism on Literacy and Numeracy in the Primary School

Carroll

2010

School Psychology International

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Although school psychologists are involved in dealing with the problem of pupil absenteeism at both the individual child and whole school level, one of the possible reasons for their involvement, namely the belief that significant absence from school has an effect on attainments, is actually founded on weak evidence. The literature review presented in this article revealed that, in order to determine the effect of absence on attainments, no satisfactory study had hither to been conducted in which attainments had been measured before and after a period of absence. However, the results of longitudinal research partially conducted by the present author, reported in this article, do show that absence from school has a significant effect on primary school attainments. In particular, it was found that an absence of half a year between the ages of 7 and 11yearsofage resulted in a reduction of 0.7 of a year and 1 year in reading and mathematics test scores respectively. The article ends with a consideration of the kind of research which still needs to be conducted in order to provide school psychologists with the information they need to deal successfully with pupil absenteeism problems.

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The Effect of Pupil Absenteeism on Literacy and Numeracy in the Primary School

Carroll

2010

School Psychology International

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“…Some researchers have attempted to examine the relationship between absenteeism and academic achievement. Odell (1923) reported small, insignificant correlations between attendance and either academic achievement or intellectual development, but significant correlations between attendance and grades awarded by teachers for class work. Finch and Nemzek (1935) reported that school grades were related to student attendance for the 1934 graduating class at one high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…”

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Student absence in South Australian schools

Rothman

2002

Aust. Educ. Res.

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Students who are frequently absent from school ('non-attenders') are considered to be 'at risk'. State education departments have recently begun to improve their collection of student absence data, often to contribute to the development of performance standards for schools. This paper presents a summary of data from the Term 2 collection in South Australian government schools. The data were combined with student information, which allowed examination and comparison of attendance patterns for different groups oj" students. The author provides details about which students were absent in those years, the frequency of students' absences, which students had no absences, and the stated reasons for students' absences.The author recommends that no single attendance standard can be set for schools, based on the differential targets shown for different groups of students.Regular attendance is an important factor in school success. Students who are chronic non-attenders receive fewer hours of instruction; they often leave education early and are more likely to become long term unemployed, homeless, caught in the poverty trap, dependent on welfare, and involved in the justice system (House of Representatives 1996, p. 3). High rates of student absenteeism are believed to affect regular attenders as well, because teachers must accommodate non-attenders in the same class. But chronic absenteeism is not necessarily a cause of academic failure and departure from formal education. Research by Altenbaugh et al (1995), Bryk and Thum (1989), and Fernandez and Velez (1989 has highlighted significant associations between student background factors, poor attendance, and early school leaving. Such associations would suggest that chronic absenteeism, truancy and academic failure are evidence of a dysfunctional relationship among student and school, and that schools need to be more student-centred and supportive of students with different needs. While discussions about causes of student absenteeism and relationships between absenteeism and achievement continue, there is • 69

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The Use of Instructional Time in the Typical High School Classroom

Fisher¹

2009

The Educational Forum

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The Effect of Pupil Absenteeism on Literacy and Numeracy in the Primary School

The Effect of Pupil Absenteeism on Literacy and Numeracy in the Primary School

Student absence in South Australian schools

The Use of Instructional Time in the Typical High School Classroom

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