School Leaders' Obligations to Reduce Student Absence

• In Event: Ensuring School Is Welcoming and Equitable for All Students: School Leaders' Role in Diminishing Disparities in Discipline and Absenteeism

Abstract

Student absence raises an issue of social justice, as the absence was higher among minority students, students from low SES and in schools with higher percentages of students from low SES. Schools' leaders have a responsibility to adhere to educational obligations and federal policies concerning student absence and the provision of supports for absentee students, whether directly or indirectly through school climate. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how the contexts and variables of demographic variables, school climate aspects, and transformational leadership are interrelated and could predict students’ absence, using structural equation model in analyzing the data from PISA 2015 because of the capacity of SEM model in identifying complex relationships between variables, including moderation and mediation.

Author

• Majed Altamimi