Improving Student Attendance With School, Family, and Community Partnerships

By Steven B. Sheldon. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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School Influences on Parents' Role Beliefs (2013, unknown): “0013-5984/2013/11401-0004 $10.00 Weiss, 2007; Sheldon, 2007; Tan & Goldberg, 2009; Topor, Keane, Shelton, & Calkins, 2010).”
Assessing the Effect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1302. (2014, background): “A common finding in the literature is that students with greater attendance than their classmates perform better on standardized achievement tests and that schools with higher rates of daily attendance tend to generate students who perform better on achievement tests than do schools with lower daily”
Chronic Absenteeism and Its Effects on Students’ Academic and Socioemotional Outcomes (2014, result): “Chronic absenteeism can be reduced when schools, families, and communities are involved (Connolly & Olson, 2012; Sheldon, 2007; Sheldon & Epstein, 2004), and, therefore, this study supports further work in policy, practice, and community.”
The Effects of Education Accountability on Teachers: Are Policies Too-Stress Provoking for Their Own Good?. (2009, background): “Strongly implemented partnerships of schools, families, and communities can lead to better outcomes for students, such as better attendance (Sheldon, 2007).”
Excused Versus Unexcused: How Student Absences in Elementary School Affect Academic Achievement (2009, methodology): “This article supports previous efforts of attendance interventions regarding school outreach to parents and families, and the results indicate a continued need for parental involvement in the school and the community to improve academic outcomes (Epstein, 2001; Sheldon, 2003, 2007).”
Identifying the Determinants of Chronic Absenteeism: A Bioecological Systems Approach (2017, background): “Prior research has suggested that a stronger school–community–family partnership can lower child absenteeism (Sheldon, 2007).”
Truancy Interventions: A Review of the Research Literature (2010, background): “…(Brunsma, 1998; Licht, Gard, & Guardino, 1991; McCluskey, Bynum, & Patchin, 2004; McPartland, Balfanz, Jordan, & Legters, 1998; Newsome, 2004; Sheldon, 2007), and eight one-group pretest/posttest designs (Baker & Jansen, 2000; Elizondo, Feske, Edgull, & Walsh, 2003; Epstein & Sheldon, 2002;…”
Evaluating the Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement in Urban Elementary and Middle Schools (2010, methodology): “Several studies have deemed attendance as important enough to be evaluated as an academic outcome (King, 2000; Lehr, Sinclair, & Christenson, 2004; Phillips, 1997; Sheldon, 2007), thereby suggesting that increased attendance is a direct indicator, rather than determinant, of school success.”