Chronic Absenteeism Quiz

Chronic Absenteeism is defined as...

• Poor school attendance + Declining academic performance

• Missing 10 or more days in a school year

• Missing at least 10 percent of days in a school year for any reason

By middle school, absenteeism is one of the three signs that a student may drop out of high school

• True

• False

Students who miss 2-4 days in the first month of school are ____ more likely to be chronically absent.

9th grade attendance is a better predictor of graduation rates than 8th grade test scores.

• True

• False

Suspensions do not count as absences.

• True

• False

Factors impacting attendance include:

• Barriers keeping students out of school.

• Avoidance of something at or/in transit to school.

• Disengagement/not seeing connection between attendance &important outcomes.

• Operating on incomplete information about extent of absences or its impact.

• All of the above

Excused absences are not calculated in chronic absenteeism

• True

• False