Using data-driven analytics and ecological systems theory to identify risk and protective factors for school absenteeism among secondary students

Lee, Knoo; McMorris, Barbara J.; Chi, Chih-Lin; Looman, Wendy S.; Burns, Matthew K.; Delaney, Connie W

doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2023.03.002

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“…Finally, the findings suggest that racial inequality in school discipline can be classified and studied as an ecological issue. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of the mesosystem for reforms in equity outcomes, such as chronic absenteeism ( Childs & Scanlon, 2022; Lee et al, 2023). Similarly, there is a need for a better understanding of how environmental systems outside the microsystem, such as the mesosystem and exosystem, influence students’ disciplinary outcomes.…”

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The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City

Rodriguez,

Welsh

2023

Educational Researcher

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Inequities in exclusionary discipline result from a complex process involving students, families, and school personnel. However, little research has explored the topic from parent perspectives. This study used parent survey data from New York City to investigate the link between school-family relationships and students experiencing exclusionary discipline. Results indicate that stronger parental trust toward teachers is connected to a reduced probability that a student receives an office discipline referral, while greater trust in principals is associated with a lower chance of suspension. Several aspects of school-family relationships, such as parent-principal trust, parental involvement, and school outreach and communication, heterogeneously predict a lower likelihood of experiencing exclusionary discipline by student race and special education status. These findings demonstrate the interdependent role of families and school staff in child development and highlight the need to cultivate positive school-family relationships as a potential strategy for addressing exclusionary discipline disparities.

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The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City

Rodriguez,

Welsh

2023

Educational Researcher

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“…Key mechanisms in this regard could include long-term declines in executive functioning capabilities such as working memory and cognitive flexibility, social alienation, student illness and risky behaviors, and less teacher-based instruction (Fuhs et al, 2018;Gottfried and Ansari, 2021;Sosu et al, 2021;Klein et al, 2022). The relationship between school absenteeism and impaired academic achievement is highly multifaceted and complex, however, including not just many of the variables described here but also broader exosystem and macrosystem variables (e.g., biased/inappropriate academic placements; level of school funding for academic resources; youth employment to support family members economically) (Singer et al, 2021;Lee et al, 2023).…”

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“…These perspectives can be grouped generally into analytic approaches that focus on specific contexts and narrow-band variables that impact school attendance/SAPs/absenteeism as well as systemic approaches that focus on overarching contexts and broad-band variables that impact school attendance/SAPs/absenteeism (Kearney, 2021). Analytic approaches in this area often focus on microsystem (immediate environment) and mesosystem (interconnected microsystems) ecological impacts such as student health, caregiverstudent interactions, family-school communications, and peer victimization (Pengpid and Peltzer, 2019;Lee et al, 2023). Systemic approaches in this area often focus on exosystem (social structures) and macrosystem (cultural elements) ecological impacts such as school climate, educational policy, transportation schemes, and economic patterns (Berkowitz et al, 2017;Stein and Grigg, 2019).…”

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School attendance problems and absenteeism as early warning signals: review and implications for health-based protocols and school-based practices

Kearney,

Dupont,

Fensken

et al. 2023

Front. Educ.

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School attendance has been historically linked to healthy states of functioning, whereas school attendance problems/absenteeism have been historically linked to unhealthy states of functioning. Indeed, school attendance and its problems are deeply embedded within multiple domains of functioning at both analytic and systemic levels. This article utilizes complex systems theory and the concept of early warning signals to illustrate how changes in school attendance could indicate instability and perhaps sudden transitions to unhealthy states of functioning for students, families, schools, and communities. The article reviews how school attendance problems/absenteeism intersect with functioning at analytic (academic, social–emotional, mental health, physical health, family) and systemic (school and community) levels. The article also includes recommendations for how viewing changes in school attendance as early warning signals could improve health-based protocols (enhancing access to care; integrating systems of care) and school-based practices (developing multi-tiered systems of support models and community asset maps; modifying educational and policy perspectives). A primary theme involves more streamlined efforts to identify movement from healthy to unhealthy states among individuals to assign proactive and personalized treatment avenues (health-based protocols) and among systems to enact needed intervention supports and reforms (school-based practices).

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“…However, some of the studies directly or indirectly address broader influences in the exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. For other recent examples of studies addressing the influence of multiple systems on attendance and absence, see , Leduc et al (2022), and Lee et al (2023). 10.3389/feduc.2023.1251223 Frontiers in Education 07 frontiersin.org…”

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The Unlearning of School Attendance: Ideas for Change

2024

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Using data-driven analytics and ecological systems theory to identify risk and protective factors for school absenteeism among secondary students

Cited by 8 publications

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The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City

The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City

School attendance problems and absenteeism as early warning signals: review and implications for health-based protocols and school-based practices

The Unlearning of School Attendance: Ideas for Change

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