{"id":5413,"date":"2022-08-30T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2022-08-30T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:16:19","slug":"1eef-attendance-rea-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/1eef-attendance-rea-report\/","title":{"rendered":"1\tEEF attendance REA report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Attendance Focus: August -October 2022<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Summary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Research reference (with link)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EEF Attendance Interventions Rapid Evidence Assessment, March 2022\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Attendance interventions rapid evidence assessment | EEF (educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Research methodology \/ Data Collection methods<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This review used a rapid evidence assessment of existing research focusing on a selection of 72 studies, published since 2000. The studies include both randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi experimental designs (QEDs).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The report documents the following limitations as compromising the validity of evidence and findings:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • The majority of studies took place in the USA (only 3 from UK)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Over one third of the studies were shown to have some concern or high risk of bias in their methodologies<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • There is a lack of sufficient evidence to conclude the effectiveness of some approaches<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The report acknowledges that some studies may have been missed due to time constraints and narrowed inclusion criteria restrictions.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Key relevant findings<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The report places findings into 8 categories of interventions: mentoring, parental engagement, responsive and targeted approaches, teaching of social and emotional skills, behaviour interventions, meal provision, incentives and disincentives, extracurricular activities.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Overall, the report concludes that the overall quality of the evidence is weak. The report does highlight that there is some promising evidence, with studies showing small or very small impact on attendance, for several strategies including parental engagement approaches and responsive interventions that target the individual causes of low attendance. The report found mixed evidence for mentoring, behaviour interventions, meal provision, incentives and disincentives and extracurricular activities, with studies reporting both positive and negative impact of these interventions on attendance. There is not enough evidence to reach a conclusion for the efficacy of non-targeted interventions and whole-class interventions, such as the teaching of social and emotional skills, which had no impact overall.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Questions research raises<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Should schools focus on targeted and responsive approaches to attendance, instead of whole-class, non-targeted interventions where evidence of efficacy is weak?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Should we delve deeper into parental engagement approaches and find examples of good practice in this area? <\/span>
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How can we ensure consistency across our schools and authorities in how we monitor and measure attendance, to gather reliable evidence to help drive sustainable, collaborative improvement in this area? <\/span>
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Due to a lack of high-quality research, do we need to spend more time gathering and sharing examples of effective interventions within and between our authorities? How could we best do this?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Follow up reading suggestions\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
See report for summary of evidence from each study reviewed under each category of intervention.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

See references list to access all studies included in the review.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative\u00a0 Attendance Focus: August -October 2022\u00a0 Research Summary\u00a0 Research reference (with link)\u00a0 EEF Attendance Interventions Rapid Evidence Assessment, March 2022\u00a0\u00a0 Attendance interventions rapid evidence assessment | EEF (educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk)\u00a0 Research methodology \/ Data Collection methods\u00a0 This review used a rapid evidence assessment of existing research focusing on a selection …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvwlric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}