An Evaluation of a National Program to Reduce Student Absenteeism in High School.

Autor/inn/en	Baker, Michael; Drange, Nina; Gjefsen, Hege Marie
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	An Evaluation of a National Program to Reduce Student Absenteeism in High School.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 52 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30194
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30194
Schlagwörter	Norwegen; Schüler; Schüler; Fehlzeiten; Arbeitspapier; Norwegen
Abstract	Starting in the 2016/17 academic year, high school students in Norway who missed more than 10 percent of the hours in a given course without a medical excuse could not receive a final grade. We examine the impacts of this policy on student absenteeism, the incidence of the no grade penalty and two measures of student achievement. The policy had the intended impact on absenteeism, reducing total absence by 20-28 percent, and chronic absence by 29-39 percent in the high school grades. This behavioral response was largely sufficient to avoid the academic penalty for absence over the 10 percent threshold under the new law. Finally, we find a mixed impact on student achievement: little impact on externally graded, end of year exams, and modest evidence of a positive impact of 6 percent of a standard deviation on teacher awarded GPA.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1