ERIC Number: EJ1034950
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 53
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
The School Situation for Students with a High Level of Absenteeism in Compulsory School: Is There a Pattern in Documented Support?
Strand, Anne-Sofie M.; Granlund, Mats
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v58 n5 p551-569 2014
This paper is a retrospective descriptive content analysis of all identified school documents for 90 ninth-grade students with a history of truancy, collected from two Swedish compulsory schools. The study investigates individual, school, and psychosocial factors in the documents and three analyses are presented: (1) a general analysis of the documents, (2) a comparison of truant students with and without learning difficulties (LD), and (3) a comparison between students with LD who received no special educational support and those who did receive support. Predictors for truancy were credits in the fall of the eighth grade, difficulties in mathematics, and relationship problems. For 50% of the students, frequent truancy first became evident after the seventh grade. No connections were found between documented educational and social support, learning difficulties, and level of truancy.
Descriptors: Attendance, Compulsory Education, Truancy, Learning Problems, Academic Support Services, Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Predictor Variables, Institutional Characteristics, Individual Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Intervention, Special Education, Parent Background, Educational Background, Content Analysis, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 9; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Sweden

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