The social, emotional and behavioural difficulties of primary school children with poor attendance records

(2013) - H.C.M (Tim) Carroll

Journal: Educational Studies
Link:: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03055698.2012.717508
DOI:: 10.1080/03055698.2012.717508
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Tags:: #paper #NCDS #Exclusion
Cite Key:: [@Carroll2013]

Abstract

Two complementary studies of poor and better attenders are presented. To measure emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) different teacher-completed rating scales were employed, and to determine social difficulties, the studies used sociometry and some items from the scales. One study had a longitudinal design. It revealed that, after controlling for social class, gender and EBD in Year 2, poor attendance between Years 2 and 6 had the effect of significantly increasing EBD in Year 6. Both studies also had a cross-sectional design element which gave an indication of some of the poor attenders’ social difficulties and confirmed the longitudinal findings. The rating scales also provided measurements of “neurotic” and “antisocial” disorders. These suggested that a “neurotic” disorder may have played a bigger part than an “antisocial” disorder in the poor attenders’ EBD. The article ends with a list of recent references dealing with intervention issues

Notes

“Year 2, poor attendance between Years 2 and 6 had the effect of significantly increasing EBD in Year” (Carroll, 2013, p. 223)