If You Build It, They Will Come
A Successful Truancy Intervention Program in a Small High School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10857024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John N Marvul (New York, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 144-169 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0859 • E-ISSN: 1552-8340 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042085911427738 |
| OpenAlex | W2159088578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 23 |
To assess whether a 5-month program involving attendance monitoring, sports participation, and a moral character class would reduce absenteeism, 40 students in a small transitional high school were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups and assessed pre- and postintervention on educational expectations, attitude toward education, and emotional, cognitive, behavioral engagement, and attendance. Findings indicated significant differences between intervention and control groups on all predictor variables. Absenteeism was significantly and negatively related to all predictor variables. The program successfully reduced absenteeism, increased educational expectations, attitude toward education and engagement
Absenteeism · Attendance · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Educational attainment · Intervention (counseling) · Political science · Clinical Psychology · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
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Masking Attendance
The impact of interventions to prevent truancy
Absence Unexcused
Involving Roma parents
STEMming” the Swell of Absenteeism in the Middle Years
Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context
Can Neighbor Attributes Predict School Absences
Educational Experiences That Matter to Seniors Graduating From an Urban Early College High School
Creating Welcoming Schools
Retained Students and Classmates’ Absences in Urban Schools
Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
Present and Accounted for
Structuring Failure and Success
School Engagement
Exchange and Power in Social Life
The Effect of Education on Crime
The Effects of Participation in Sport during the Last Two Years of High School
Student Mobility and the Increased Risk of High School Dropout
Distinguishing Absentee Students from Regular Attenders
Black students' school success
Overrepresentation of African American Students in Exclusionary Discipline The Role of School Policy
Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gap Trends
Dropping out of Middle School
Exchange and power in social life
The Effects of Extracurricular Activity, Ethnic Identification, and Perception of School on Student Dropout Rates
The Silenced Dialogue
The Distribution of Dropout and Turnover Rates among Urban and Suburban High Schools
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| Citations per year | 1.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |