Improving Chronic Absenteeism Rates among Elementary Students with the Aim of Creating a Pathway to Higher Graduation Rates

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 Discipline: Research methods

Good Evening my paper is a literature review that needs to explain what strategies have already been used to improve elementary chronic absenteeism and what strategies can be used to improve graduation rates pertaining to attendance. Another theme is how can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy be used to improve Chronic Absenteeism.  Listed are articles that has already been used. I have already written some themes but need more content to add to my paper.



Alabisco, J., Sprick, J., Yore, K. (2015). Educational Leadership: Doing Data Right: Dramatically Improving Attendance.73(3), 50-54.  

Balfanz, R., & Byrnes, V. (2013). Meeting the challenge of combating chronic absenteeism: Impact of the NYC Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Chronic Absenteeism and School Attendance and its implications for other cities. Johns Hopkins School of Education. 

Faria, A. M., Sorensen, N., Heppen, J., Bowdon, J., Taylor, S., Eisner, R., & Foster, S. (2017). Getting students on track for graduation: Impacts of the Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System after one year (REL 2017–272). U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest. 

Gottfried. Michael. (2015). Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement. 54(1).  

Humm Patnode, A., Gibbons, K., & Edmunds, R. R. (2018). Attendance and chronic absenteeism: Literature review. University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development, Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement. 

Maynard, B. R., Brendel, K. E., Bulanda, J. J., Heyne, D., Thompson, A. M., & Pigott, T. D. (2015). Psychosocial interventions for school refusal behavior with primary and secondary school students: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 11(1), 1–76. DOI 10.4073/csr.2015.12 

Simon, O., Nylund‐Gibson, K., Gottfried, M. A., & Mireles‐Rios, R. (2020). Elementary absenteeism over time: A latent class growth analysis predicting fifth and eighth-grade outcomes. Learning and Individual Differences, 78, 101822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101822 

United States Department of Education. (2016). Chronic Absenteeism in the Nation’s School. https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/chronicabsenteeism.html 

Virginia Department of Education. (2022). Attendance and School Engagement. https://www.doe.virginia.gov/programs-services/student-services/attendance-school-engagement 

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