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Performance Insights: School Attendance

Performance Insights: School Attendance. Every day counts. research confirms a strong link between attendance and student outcomes. Every day counts aims to inform parents, school communities and students about the importance of school attendance

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Performance Insights: School Attendance

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  1. Performance Insights: School Attendance

  2. Every day counts • research confirms a strong link between attendance and student outcomes. • Every day counts aims to inform parents, school communities and students about the importance of school attendance • brochures, case studies, research and factsheets can be found on the department’s website at http://education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/

  3. Average attendance rates • The overall average attendance rate in Queensland state schools in 2013 was ***% • This is just lower than the average in some of the other eastern Australian states, which is approximately 92%.

  4. Our school’s attendance rate • Insert your school’s data here

  5. Patterns of attendance across the week Absences by reason by day (Semester 1, 2010)

  6. Patterns across the semester Absences by week by reason (Semester 1, 2010)

  7. Patterns across schooling years Average attendance rates by year level for all students and Indigenous students (2008 to 2010)

  8. The literature suggests that a low level of school attendance may be associated with: • poor academic achievements including lower levels of achievement on literacy (for example,. reading, writing) and numeracy (Simons, Bampton, Findlay & Dempster, 2007) • reduced opportunities for students to learn and access educational resources e.g. programs, teachers which impact on students’ academic attainment (Bridgeland, DiIulio & Morison, 2006) • further absenteeism in subsequent grades (Alexander, Entwisle& Horsey, 1997; Barrington & Hendricks, 1989; Kaplan, Peck & Kaplan, 1995; Rumberger, 1987; Rumberger, Ghatak, Poulos, Ritter& Dornbusch, 1990) Impact of low rates of attendance

  9. Reasons for non-attendance

  10. What do we know about attendance • attendance has a strong and persisting relationship with student outcomes as measured by NAPLAN scores • each day lost in the early years has a stronger relationship with reading in later years • each day lost in the later years has a stronger relationship with numeracy in the later years • the research literature suggests that several adverse outcomes are related to student attendance levels

  11. Categories for school attendance strategies

  12. Our school’s approach • Insert your school’s approach to increasing attendance here

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