Below is a list of key research related to attendance for Elementary School
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The COVID-19 slide: What summer learning loss can tell us about the potential impact of school closures on student academic achievement
Kuhfeld, Megan and Beth Tarasawa, NWEA Collaborative for Student Growth, April 2020. This brief leverages research on summer loss and uses a national sample of over five million students in grades 3–8 who took assessment tests in 2017–2018. The authors examined growth trajectories of a standard school year compared to projected COVID-19 school closures and slowdown.
Principal Quality and Student Attendance
Bartanen, Brendan. Educational Researcher, Vol. 49, Issue 2, p 101-113. March 2020. This paper utilizes a value-added framework and draws on a decade of statewide data from Tennessee to determine principals’ effects on student absences, and finds these effects on student absences are significant and comparable in magnitude to their effects on student performance.
Attendance Counts: How Schools and Local Communities are Reducing Chronic Absence in North Carolina
North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation. September 2019. This report outlines results from a survey of 1,500 NC parents, preschool staff and elementary school staff who shared their impressions of current school-level attendance policies and practices. In addition to analyzing the survey data, the report considers what can be done by schools and in communities to reduce chronic absence in preschool…
Achievement and Absenteeism
Jensen, Nate and Gregory King. Center for School and Student Progress. NWEA. A study of elementary students in one district indicates that the effect of chronic absence on academic achievement carries forward year after year. The drag on achievement occurs well before students meet the definition of chronic absence. Policies should target students earlier to prevent their falling behind.
Strategies for Student Attendance and School Climate in Baltimore’s Community Schools
Researchers interviewed the coordinators in community schools identified as having comparatively higher student attendance and more positive school climate than peer community schools. Having clearly designated roles, reliable protocols and procedures, and a leader who consistently communicated expectations to parents and students helped ensure that community schools could maintain high attendance and a positive school climate.
The effects of Tulsa’s CAP Head Start program on middle-school academic outcomes and progress
Phillips, Deborah, William Gormley, and Sara Anderson, August 2016. This study presents evidence pertinent to current debates about the lasting impacts of early childhood educational interventions and, specifically, Head Start. A group of students who were first studied to examine the immediate impacts of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start program were followed-up in middle school, primarily…
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.