Absenteeism

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School's Out: The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities

Allison Atteberry, Andrew McEachin. May 2020

Topics: Student Learning

Tags: Absenteeism

Summer learning loss (SLL) is a familiar and much-studied phenomenon, yet new concerns that measurement artifacts distorted canonical SLL findings create a need to revisit basic research on SLL. Though race/ethnicity and SES only account for about 4% of the variance in SLL, nearly all prior work… more →
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Engaging Teachers: Measuring the Impact of Teachers on Student Attendance in Secondary School

Jing Liu, Susanna Loeb. March 2019

Topics: Teacher and Leader Development

Tags: Absenteeism, Motivation, Teacher well-being

Teachers’ impact on student long-run success is only partially explained by their contributions to students’ short-run academic performance. For this study, we explore a second dimension of teacher effectiveness by creating measures of teachers’ contributions to student class-attendance. We find… more →
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