Literature Review
Literature Review
For the purpose of this study this literature review will analyze improving student attendance through building a family connection through parental involvement. If students are in school on time everyday then learning takes place. By building a family connection which highlights the importance of attendance, this will lead to improving student performance on standardized test, Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems/Scholastic Reading Inventory (MCAS/SRI). Decreasing the rate of student truancy and absenteeism has been and continues to be the goal of school districts across the nation for over a century. Amazingly, little research focuses on what schools can do to increase and maintain student’s daily attendance and even fewer studies explore how families-school-community can build a partnership to work together towards this goal. Corville and Smith, (1995) state that “Despite the long history of concern over student attendance, the issue has received relatively little attention from educational researchers”. Instead of focusing on student attendance, researchers have mainly focused on students who drop out of high school before receiving their high school diploma. Even though a great deal of research exits on students dropping out of school more so than on truancy, research on students who dropout points to early detection of truancy in their lives before they drop out of school. “Dropping out of school, although defined by a single event reflects a long process of disengagement and withdrawal from schooling and educational institutions”, (Finn, 1989, Newman, Wehlage, & Lamborn, 1992). In order to understand and reduce the problem of students dropping out of school researchers should first investigate the early warning signs in students behavior before it
For the purpose of this study this literature review will analyze improving student attendance through building a family connection through parental involvement. If students are in school on time everyday then learning takes place. By building a family connection which highlights the importance of attendance, this will lead to improving student performance on standardized test, Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems/Scholastic Reading Inventory (MCAS/SRI). Decreasing the rate of student truancy and absenteeism has been and continues to be the goal of school districts across the nation for over a century. Amazingly, little research focuses on what schools can do to increase and maintain student’s daily attendance and even fewer studies explore how families-school-community can build a partnership to work together towards this goal. Corville and Smith, (1995) state that “Despite the long history of concern over student attendance, the issue has received relatively little attention from educational researchers”. Instead of focusing on student attendance, researchers have mainly focused on students who drop out of high school before receiving their high school diploma. Even though a great deal of research exits on students dropping out of school more so than on truancy, research on students who dropout points to early detection of truancy in their lives before they drop out of school. “Dropping out of school, although defined by a single event reflects a long process of disengagement and withdrawal from schooling and educational institutions”, (Finn, 1989, Newman, Wehlage, & Lamborn, 1992). In order to understand and reduce the problem of students dropping out of school researchers should first investigate the early warning signs in students behavior before it