Chronic absenteeism is extremely common among preschool students and declines substantially when children enter kindergarten¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? In 2011-12, 45 percent of three-year-old and 36 percent of four-year-old CPS preschoolers were chronically absent (missing at least 10 percent of enrolled days). → Ehrlich 2014 q3 i? Chronic absenteeism declines as students get older, falling to 20 percent of five-year-olds in kindergarten and 10 percent of eight-year-olds in third grade. → Ehrlich 2014

Evidence¶

Ehrlich 2014¶

Ehrlich, S. B., Gwynne, J. A., Pareja, A. S., Allensworth, E. M., Moore, P., Jagesic, S., & Sorice, E. (2014). Preschool Attendance in Chicago Public Schools: Relationships with Learning Outcomes and Reasons for Absences. UChicago CCSR Research Report. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/preschool-attendance-chicago-public-schools-relationships-learning-outcomes-and-reasons

q3 · i? · associational · r3

Descriptive analysis of CPS administrative attendance records for roughly 26,000 preschool students per year, 2008-09 through 2011-12. The report states "45 percent of three-year-olds and 36 percent of four-year-olds in CPS were chronically absent," with chronic absence defined as missing 10 percent or more of enrolled days.

"In 2011-12, 45 percent of three-year-olds and 36 percent of four-year-olds in CPS were chronically absent (see Figure 3 ). Of these students, at least one-third missed 20 percent or more of school."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Age and Developmental Stage — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Chronic absenteeism is extremely common among CPS preschoolers, with 45 percent of three-year-olds and 36 percent of four-year-olds missing at least 10 percent of enrolled days — related
• Chronically absent preschoolers are much more likely to stay chronically absent, and each successive year of chronic absenteeism compounds risk of low second-grade reading — related
• Attendance in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten is important, and early-grade chronic absenteeism has identifiable risk factors — related
• Family circumstances pile up to worsen preschool attendance, and parent beliefs about attendance importance are related to absence rates — related