Should Students Be Allowed to Miss?

Autor/inn/en	Paredes, Ricardo D.; Ugarte, Gabriel A.
Titel	Should Students Be Allowed to Miss?
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Research, 104 (2011) 3, S.194-201 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0671
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Attendance; Foreign Countries; Public Schools; Primary Education; Learning; Educational Strategies; Educational Policy; Data Analysis; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Anwesenheit; Ausland; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Primarbereich; Lernen; Lehrstrategie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Auswertung
Abstract	Many educational policymakers consider attendance as a tool to induce learning. Researchers also agree that attendance has a positive effect on learning; however, there are few empirical studies that measure the nature and significance of that effect. The authors analyzed the effect of class attendance on academic performance and evaluated the existence and importance of a minimum attendance requirement. Using student data from a sample of public primary schools in Chile, and considering for endogeneity and sample selection bias, they found two important results. First, attendance had a relevant and statistically significant effect on educational performance. Second, the existence of a threshold was identified, but educational performance did not continue to decrease after a certain number of absences, which seems to contradict policies that have a minimum attendance requirement. (Contains 4 notes, 5 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10