Elementary students with 90%+ attendance and GPA 3.0+ in grades 3-8 were more likely to graduate high school with a 3.0+ GPA than peers in other EOT categories¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? In a sample of 93,617 Chicago students in grades 3-8 (SY2010-11), On-Track students (GPA 3.0+, attendance 90%+) had higher four-year graduation rates and were more likely to graduate with a 3.0+ GPA than Intensive, Academic, or Attendance Support peers. → UChicago Consortium on School Research 2024

Evidence¶

UChicago Consortium on School Research 2024¶

UChicago Consortium on School Research. (2024). Family playbook: How can we understand students' progress in school? Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/events-and-resources

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Consortium Elementary On-Track analysis (Seeskin, Massion, & Usher, 2022) of 93,617 CPS students in grades 3-8 from SY2010-11; the printed figure shows, for example, 72% of On-Track students versus 34% of Intensive Support students graduated with a 3.0+ GPA.

"Students with 90+% attendance and a GPA of 3.0+ in grades 3–8 were more likely to graduate high school and have college-ready qualifications than their peers"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Low attendance is linked with lower academic skills, grades, and high school graduation, and high attendance with higher ones — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• Students in higher CPS EOT categories had progressively higher rates of high school graduation and college enrollment — a broader claim this one bears on
• Elementary students in the On-Track category graduated high school at more than twice the rate and enrolled in college at more than four times the rate of students in the Intensive Support category — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Attendance Support students maintained a 3.0 GPA despite low attendance but graduated high school at 71 percent, below the district average, and fewer than half attended college — related
• Academic Support students, who attended regularly but earned below a 3.0 GPA, made up nearly 40 percent of students and saw academic struggles persist beyond the middle grades — related
• More than one-half of Intensive Support students did not graduate high school in four years and more than 80 percent did not enroll directly in college — related