If You Build It, They Will Come: A Successful Truancy Intervention Program in a Small High School

Autor/in	Marvul, John N.
Titel	If You Build It, They Will Come: A Successful Truancy Intervention Program in a Small High School
Quelle	In: Urban Education, 47 (2012) 1, S.144-169 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0859
DOI	10.1177/0042085911427738
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Intervention; Predictor Variables; Academic Aspiration; High School Students; Experimental Groups; Pretests Posttests; Expectation; Educational Attitudes; Emotional Development; Cognitive Development; Behavior Modification; Attendance; Attendance Patterns; Learner Engagement; Truancy; Functional Behavioral Assessment; At Risk Students; Values Education; Behavioral Science Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prädiktor; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Expectancy; Erwartung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Gefühlsbildung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; Anwesenheit; Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Werterziehung
Abstract	To assess whether a 5-month program involving attendance monitoring, sports participation, and a moral character class would reduce absenteeism, 40 students in a small transitional high school were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups and assessed pre- and postintervention on educational expectations, attitude toward education, and emotional, cognitive, behavioral engagement, and attendance. Findings indicated significant differences between intervention and control groups on all predictor variables. Absenteeism was significantly and negatively related to all predictor variables. The program successfully reduced absenteeism, increased educational expectations, attitude toward education and engagement. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10