Category: Research on Absenteeism

The Efficacy of Virtual Instruction in K12 Education: A Review of the Literature, Georgia State U

“given the current public health crisis, schools may have little choice in providing
some or all instruction remotely. Thus, a major concern is how to provide the best remote instruction
possible under the current circumstances. Unfortunately, existing research provides litle reliable evidence
on which online learning practices are most effective, and the few existing causal studies yield inconsistent
results. Similarly, there is a lack of consistent evidence on the relationship between teacher experience
and effectiveness in an online learning environment.”

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Survey: Students Want More Opportunities to Connect With Teachers During the Pandemic: Education Week

“the survey also found that Black students, in particular, were more likely to have experienced economic hardships as a result of the pandemic: 37 percent of Black students said that at least one of the adults in their household had lost their job due to the coronavirus, compared to 27 percent of Latino students, 23 percent of white students, and 16 percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander students.”

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62,596 Years of Instruction Are Lost Annually, and It Has Nothing to Do With COVID

The losses are quantified in often horrifying detail by Lost Opportunities, a report recently released by The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and the Learning Policy Institute. NEPC Fellow Dan Losen of the UCLA Civil Rights Project wrote the report with Paul Martinez, also of the Civil Rights Project.”

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How an Indigenous land-based learning approach to STEM could help students across Canada: Toronto Star

““Indigenous people have these knowledges, they express them in different ways, though,” said Dokis, who is a member of Dokis Anishinabek Nation. “It’s passed on through story and observation. Whereas in western mathematics or sciences, those knowledges are expressed through numerical formulas.”

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A Turning Point for Combating Chronic Absenteeism in American Schools by Gabby Smith

“The shift from simply keeping track of attendance to actively reaching out to struggling students and families may seem subtle, but it could have life-altering positive consequences. “

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Student engagement and attendance is impacted by online teaching: it needs to improve even after the pandemic

“The Clayton Christensen Institute report also recommends that schools establish virtual programs with autonomous staff and leadership that tap into the resources and expertise of their conventional school partners to “give students benefits that neither conventional schools nor virtual schools alone can offer.”

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Are Students Present and Accounted For? An Examination of State Attendance Policies During the Covid-19 Pandemic: a US study from Attendance Works

“This report discusses how the coronavirus pandemic impacted attendance data. It presents a summary of state attendance guidance developed since spring 2020, and examines the extent to which recent state guidance guarantees the availability of consistent, reliable data taken on a daily basis.”

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Student attendance is impacted by relationships with the students’ parents especially during the pandemic

“Generally, we see benefits such as higher grades and test scores along with greater social skills and better reported behavior. And when we’re faced with virtual rooms of deactivated cameras, or students who are not submitting work or attending office hours for aid, we need every ally out there fully ready to help.”

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The Effects of Absenteeism on Academic and Social-Emotional Outcomes: Lessons for COVID-19

Student outcomes generally suffer more from absenteeism in mathematics than in English language arts. Negative effects are larger in middle school. Absences also negatively affect social-emotional development, which can affect other student outcomes down the line.

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Preventing absences in a remote learning environment – LA Unified School District

“an evaluation of a proven restorative approach to absence prevention”

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