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An Examination of the Effectiveness of an Early Truancy Intervention for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism amongst At-Risk Students through the Use of Regression Discontinuity Analysis
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Johanna M. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Truancy is a major social problem affecting students, families, schools, and communities in the United States and is associated with low academic achievement, grade retention, and dropout. Truancy is also correlated with other adverse life outcomes including delinquency, substance abuse, and incarceration. Social work best practices literature…
Descriptors: Truancy, Intervention, Attendance, At Risk Students
The Predictive Ability of Demographic and Psychosocial Risk Factors, School-Related Characteristics, and Service Interventions on Grade Attainment among At-Risk Elementary School Children in a Truancy Intervention Program
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Judith Lee Falgout Rhodes – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of the current exploratory-descriptive retrospective study was to examine the demographic, school-related, and psychosocial risk factors among at-risk elementary school children (N = 12644) assessed at low and high levels of risk for continuing truancy. The sample was enrolled in 16 statewide program sites of a community-based truancy…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Elementary School Students, Truancy, Individual Development
Using Theatre for Social Change to Address Sexual Violence against College Women
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Christensen, Mary Candace – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study focuses on the need for sexual assault prevention interventions among college student populations. A review of the literature indicates that theatre-based prevention interventions are effective in preventing sexual violence among student populations. Chapter 2 of this dissertation is a literature review synthesizing scholarship…
Descriptors: Social Change, Sexual Abuse, Violence, Females