Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications

Autor/inn/en	Lasky-Fink, Jessica; Robinson, Carly D.; Chang, Hedy Nai-Lin; Rogers, Todd
Titel	Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications
Quelle	In: Educational Researcher, 50 (2021) 7, S.442-450 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Robinson, Carly D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-189X
DOI	10.3102/0013189X211000749
Schlagwörter	Truancy; Attendance Patterns; Student Behavior; Parent School Relationship; Information Dissemination; Language Usage; Parent Role; Program Effectiveness; Urban Schools; Public Schools; Letters (Correspondence); High School Students; Intervention; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Informationsverbreitung; Sprachgebrauch; Parental role; Elternrolle; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Brief; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	Many states mandate districts or schools notify parents when students have missed multiple unexcused days of school. We report a randomized experiment (N = 131,312) evaluating the impact of sending parents truancy notifications modified to target behavioral barriers that can hinder effective parental engagement. Modified truancy notifications that used simplified language, emphasized parental efficacy, and highlighted the negative incremental effects of missing school reduced absences by 0.07 days in the 1 month following compared to the standard, legalistic, and punitively worded notification--an estimated 40% improvement over the standard truancy notification. This work illustrates how behavioral insights and randomized experiments can be used to improve administrative communications in education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01