Persistent Absenteeism among Irish Primary School Pupils

Autor/inn/en	Thornton, Maeve; Darmody, Merike; McCoy, Selina
Titel	Persistent Absenteeism among Irish Primary School Pupils
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 65 (2013) 4, S.488-501 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
DOI	10.1080/00131911.2013.768599
Schlagwörter	Attendance; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; Academic Achievement; Social Development; Institutional Characteristics; Individual Characteristics; Educational Research; Family School Relationship; Minority Groups; Religious Factors; Disadvantaged Schools; Socioeconomic Influences; Chronic Illness; Bullying; Special Needs Students; Regression (Statistics); Longitudinal Studies; Ireland; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anwesenheit; Ausland; Schulleistung; Soziale Entwicklung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Ethnische Minderheit; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Mobbing; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Irland
Abstract	A growing number of international studies document the importance of regular school attendance. There is a consensus among authors that absenteeism has negative implications for academic achievement as well as the social development of the child and may put them at a disadvantage in terms of their position in the education and labour market. Most of the existing studies have focused on school absenteeism among adolescents with studies on poor school attendance among young children relatively rare. This paper addresses this gap in research by exploring factors that are related to school absenteeism in Irish primary schools. Drawing on a nationally representative study of nine-year-olds, it demonstrates the complexity of the issue. The findings indicate that a combination of institutional and individual factors shape patterns of poor school attendance in Irish primary schools. While the data relate to the Irish situation, the paper raises a number of issues of interest to an international audience. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10