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Investigating Chronic Absenteeism in New York Metropolitan Area Head Start Programs
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Elsie Agustina Rosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation aims to elucidate the complexities of chronic absenteeism in Head Start Programs post-COVID-19 to enhance early childhood education practices and policies. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates the causes of absenteeism by surveying and interviewing 50 participants from a Head Start Program in the New York…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
The School Interference Questionnaire: Examining a Novel Measure of Mental Health-Related Academic Functional Impairment in Youth
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Zendegui, Elaina A.; Bennett, Shannon M.; Desai, Payal; Schild, Jennifer S.; Beaumont, Renae B.; Chiu, Angela W. M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2022
This article reports on the development and initial psychometric properties of the School Interference Questionnaire (SIQ), a questionnaire designed to assess both academic functional impairment related to mental health problems and the type and frequency of school refusal behavior. Participants were 110 youth ages 13 to 18 years (M = 15.41 years,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Hospitals, Mental Health Programs
Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism between Students with and without Disabilities in Traditional Public Schools
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Michael Gottfried; Leanna Stiefel; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Bryant Hopkins – Grantee Submission, 2019
Background: While chronic absenteeism hurts all students, one particularly vulnerable group, students with disabilities (SWDs), has received little attention in research or policy. Particularly troubling is the dearth of research into the patterns of absences for SWDs and GENs who attend school together in urban school systems, given relatively…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Students with Disabilities, Urban Schools
Showing Up: Disparities in Chronic Absenteeism between Students with and without Disabilities in Traditional Public Schools
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Michael A. Gottfried; Leanna Stiefel; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Bryant Hopkins – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background: While chronic absenteeism hurts all students, one particularly vulnerable group, students with disabilities (SWDs), has received little attention in research or policy. Particularly troubling is the dearth of research into the patterns of absences for SWDs and GENs who attend school together in urban school systems, given relatively…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Students with Disabilities, Urban Schools
Battling Chronic Absenteeism
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Nauer, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
While the principal of a New York elementary school (P.S. 48) took on chronic absenteeism from 2011 to 2013, a research team at the Center for New York City Affairs followed her efforts. The school drove down chronic absenteeism almost 10 percentage points. School staff routinely touched base with students, outside "success mentors"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Attendance, Truancy, Prevention
Re-Engaging Youth for High School Success. Evaluation of the Good Shepherd Services Transfer School Model
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Tapper, Donna; Zhu, Jing; Scuello, Michael – Online Submission, 2015
(Purpose) This study contributes to the knowledge base about strategies for helping disconnected youth re-engage with schooling. The study presents findings of a rigorous impact evaluation of the Good Shepherd Services (GSS) Transfer School Model that is grounded in developmental theory positing that social and emotional factors are essential to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Influences, Emotional Response, Student School Relationship