This paper operationalizes the definition of action research (AR) and the importance of conducting such studies to improve the lives of students and professionals. This paper provides an overview of literature regarding variables related to truancy and absenteeism. The paper discusses the importance of students being present and engaged, negative implications associated with poor attendance and...

Over decades of study, problematic school absenteeism in youths has been associated with diverse terms such as truancy, psychoneurotic truancy, school refusal, school phobia, and separation anxiety. Unfortunately, such disparity has led to lack of consensus regarding definition, assessment, and treatment for this population. This is especially problematic given that school absenteeism and dropo...

No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements for teenagers to obtain driving licenses. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Monitoring the Future (MTF), we exploit variation ...

absence of one of his fingers bore testimony to some severe injury in the past. Mentally, Andrew was retarded or "backward" in development. Although he was eleven years of age, it was necessary to place him in a class doing the work of the second school year.. His mental deficiency was due not only to pedagogical retardation, but also, at least in part, to a physiological arrest of development ...

were selected for retarded work and not only for truancy or other incorrigible habits. All classes from the first to the eighth grades were given the privilege of placing children in the class. Only the first, second or third grades had children, however, whom it was decided were retarded enough to need special instruction. These children were reported not only as being stupid, but "queer". It ...

A 16-year-old Japanese boy with a history of truancy had been treated at a psychiatric clinic. When the patient was referred to us for hypokalemia-associated paralysis, the diagnosis of thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis was made, common in Asian men. Subsequently, the patient was found to have persistently high plasma renin and aldos-terone levels. Thus, solute carrier family 12 member ...

This study extends the truancy literature by exploring correlates of both committing and numbers days truant among Spanish secondary school students. The incorporates cyberbullying, peer parenting style as key predictors. Several count data regression models are estimated using a nationally representative survey students (N = 37,476; Mage 15.73; 50.9 % females). results suggest that cyberbullyi...

This study focuses on a vulnerable group of pupils often missed by mainstream school surveys. It explores alcohol use and alcohol-related problems for a sample of truants of secondary school age, comparing behaviours with a school-based sample from the same geographical area. Analyses are based on a survey among truants (n = 107) and a school survey (n = 3702) undertaken in Bergen, Norway. When...