Bakgrund: Kunskap, kompetenser och utbildning är ett folkhälsopolitiskt målområde som lyfter vikten av utbildning för barn och unga. Skolan utgör en viktig roll i arbetet med att uppnå en jämlik hälsa på nationell nivå, vilket gör skolan till en arena av betydelse vid hälsofrämjande arbete. Att arbeta närvarofrämjande skapar goda förutsättningar för en individ att uppnå en god hälsa över hela livsförloppet. Det hälsopromotiva arbetet bör fokusera på att stärka friskfaktorer och rikta uppmärksamheten till barn och ungdomars styrkor och resurser.  Metod: Systematisk litteraturöversikt där främjande faktorer för skolnärvaro sammanställdes utifrån sju artiklar publicerade mellan 2015–2023, begränsade till barn och ungdomar i åldern 6–18 år. Fem kategorier utvecklades utifrån analysen: socialt stöd, delaktighet, ökad medvetenhet, belöning och hälsoförbättringar med skolsköterska  Resultat: Socialt stöd främjar närvaro genom tillgängliga lärare, partnerskap mellan lärare och vårdnadshavare, samtal mellan lärare och elever, lärare och vårdnadshavare samt hembesök. Delaktighet främjar närvaro genom att både lärare och elever involveras i kring hälsorelaterade policyer. Medvetenhet innebär att samtal om frånvaro genom att identifiera inställningen till skolgång ökar medvetenheten och förändrar beteenden positivt. Belöning lyfter fram vikten av positiva incitament för att främja närvaro. Hälsoförbättringar med skolsköterska belyser skolsköterskans förmåga att anpassa programmet till skolans behov, vilket förbättrar närvaron.  Slutsats: Alla elever behöver bli sedda och hörda av en vuxen för av att trivas och känna sig trygga i skolan. Barn som går i skolan ges möjlighet att utveckla grundläggande förmågor vilket i ett långsiktigt perspektiv skapar förutsättningar för god hälsa. Genom denna litteraturöversikt har ytterligare ljus riktats mot vad som är viktigt för skolnärvaro. Fokus bör läggas för att främja närvaro hos elever oavsett låg närvaro, problematisk frånvaro eller förväntad närvaro. / Background: Knowledge, skills and education is a public health policy target area that highlights the importance of education for children and young people. The school plays an important role in the work to achieve equal health at the national level, which makes the school an important arena for health promotion work. Working to promote attendance creates good conditions for an individual to achieve good health over the entire course of life. The health promotion work should focus on strengthening health factors and direct attention to the strengths and resources of children and young people.  Method: Promoting factors for school attendance were compiled with a systematic literature review based on seven articles published between 2015–2023, limited to children and adolecents aged 6–18 years. Five categories were developed based on the analysis: social support, participation, increased awareness, reward, and health improvements with the school nurse.  Results: Social support promotes attendance through available teachers, partnerships between teachers and guardians, conversations between teachers and students, teachers and guardians, and home visits. Participation promotes attendance through the involvement of both teacher and student in health-related activities. Awareness means that conversations about absence by identifying the attitude to schooling raise awareness and change behavior positively. Reward highlights the importance of positive incentives to promote attendance. Adaptations as needed highlight the school nurse's ability to adapt the program to the needs of the school, which improves attendance.   Conclusion: All students need to be seen and heard by an adult in order to thrive and feel safe at school. Children who go to school are given the opportunity to develop basic abilities, which in a long-term perspective creates the conditions for good health. Through this literature review, further light has been directed towards what is important for school attendance. Focus should be placed on promoting attendance among students regardless of low attendance, problematic absence or expected attendance.

<p>A curious demographic shift is underway in North American evangelical churches. While the percentage of teens and young adults who regularly attend worship services has remained basically the same for the past thirty years the number of casual attenders is plummeting. In 2008, forty-seven percent of teens reported never attending a worship service, up from twenty-eight percent in 1980. What is causing such a radical shift in worship attendance? This thesis will investigate an increasingly distinct cultural group, called Digital Natives, who were born since 1990 and have never known a world without the Internet and constant connection to digital media.</p> <p>Through the development of a biblical theology of technology, and the investigation of recent research into the psychological and social effects of social media and other computer mediated communication, this thesis will develop a clearer picture of the cultural gap that many Mainline and Evangelical churches are facing. Through theological reflection this thesis will identify new boundaries and new behaviours that will assist in the discipling and spiritual formation of Digital Natives in today's churches.</p> / Thesis / Master of Divinity (M.Div)

The purpose of the study was to identify which additional factors that have been related to truancy are perceived by chronic truant students; additionally, the researcher wanted to know how demographic differences among chronic truant students (i.e., gender, socio-economic status, parental education, and their own education aspirations) related to these attitudes. The research questions were: (1) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of student participation in school activities? (2) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of school curriculum? (3) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of relationships with counse1ors? ( 4 ) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of relationships with teachers? (5) What are chronic truant students' perceptions with administrators (6) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of family education expectations and goals? (7) What are chronic truant students' perceptions of parental involvement? / Ed. D.

Followers expect leaders to provide clarity and assurance in uncertain times. These expectations apply to church leaders as well. American churches are in crisis regarding growth in worship attendance. According to Eymann (2012) and Shattuck (2014), more than 85% of churches in the United States are either stagnant or in decline. In addition, Redfern (2015) posited that about 4,000 churches in America are closed down each year. However, the good news is that a few churches in the United States are experiencing consistent growth in weekly worship attendance. If the pastoral leadership in those growing churches has anything to do with the growth, the researcher wondered what leadership qualities those pastoral leaders possessed that could be lacking in the pastoral leaders of churches that are not growing. Keen interest in whether or not the Emotional Intelligence competencies of the lead clergy of growing churches have any relationship with the growth, served as the impetus for this research study. This quantitative study was intended to investigate what relationship, if any, existed between the Emotional Intelligence competences of the lead clergy and church growth in the selected congregations within the Wesleyan Church North America. The Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory Concise instrument was utilized to assess and to determine the scoring pattern in the Emotional Intelligence competencies of the selected lead clergy within the Wesleyan Church North America. The conclusion of the study was that, of the seven competencies of Emotional Intelligence, only Emotional Reasoning was significantly higher among the lead clergy of growing Wesleyan churches than those of the lead clergy in the Wesleyan churches that were not growing. Other Emotional Intelligent competencies showed no significant differences. / Ph.D. in Leadership / A quantitative study on the relationship between the emotional intelligence of the lead clergy and growth in church worship attendance.

This paper is another attempt to view one of the most topical issues of modern education – early elimination from the educational system and to try to discover effective and long-term ways to solve this problem. The paper comprises two - theoretical and empirical - parts which are separated into 8 sections and 7 subsections. In the beginning of the research the place of the comprehensive school is being discussed as well as its functions and importance in the educational system, besides, the problem of non-attending pupils is being revealed which has recently been getting more response in the society. The latter problem is highlighted through the presented and analysed scale of non-attending pupils. One of the largest sections of the theoretical part is devoted to the cause analysis of school non-attendance and early elimination from the educational system. The causes are analysed by grouping them into four essential groups – personal psychological pedagogical; family; school; societal, then, discussing each cause group in detail. The remaining sections of the theoretical part present possible school non-attendance consequences, preventive possibilities and problem solving models. The other – empirical part of the paper was performed in one Vilnius city grammer school, where the schoolteachers and pupils were questioned. The empirical research seeked to reveal the attitude of the respondents towards the questions discussed in the theoretical part –... [to full text]

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The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationship between student persistence and financial aid through a meta-analysis of existing empirical research. The significance of the study was that financial aid policy would be enhanced if the facts regarding the relationship were clearly known. The meta-analysis assessed forty-nine studies, representing seventy samples. Studies were organized into two categories: (1) studies that compared financial aid recipients to nonrecipients and (2) studies that examined persistence differences among financial aid recipients. Studies were integrated by converting each study result into the common metric of effect size. The meta-analysis results were reported in average unweighted and weighted effect sizes. In the latter case results were weighted by the number in the treatment group. Average effect sizes were interpreted by (1) absolute magnitude of effect sizes, (2) graphic representation, and (3) an elasticity measure. The meta-analysis examining the total sample found financial aid to have a small, but significant, positive effect on student persistence, thereby enabling lower income students to persist at a rate roughly equal to that of middle and upper income students. The average unweighted and weighted effect sizes of the total sample were +.13 and +.06, respectively. The length of persistence measured, the type of institution attended, and whether studies controlled for academic ability were found to be mediators influencing the magnitude and direction of the effect size. When results of studies that examined persistence differences among financial aid recipients were integrated, the following conclusions were reached: (1) there was little difference in the persistence of males and females, (2) minority students persisted significantly less than white students, and (3) the amount of financial aid had a significant positive effect on persistence. When forms of financial aid were analyzed, although the effect sizes were reasonably small and the differences in effect sizes among forms were minimal, combinations of aid were determined to be more effective than single forms. This finding probably reflects more the amount of financial aid than the form of financial aid.

The thesis covers two sides of the truancy problem in the period following compulsory school attendance - the truanting children and their parents, and the local authorities charged with enforcing the law. The introduction covers current concerns about truancy and school attendance, which have increased in prominence since the 1980s. Chapter 2 reviews the historiography, which has mainly debated working-class attitudes towards compulsory schooling in the nineteenth century. This study draws instead on the insights of development economists into household decision-making over children's schooling to investigate the effectiveness of enforcement in several contrasting localities - rural and urban, industrial and agricultural, and in a seaside resort. The thesis brings together evidence to show that local authorities could make an impact on attendance levels, even in unpropitious local circumstances. Chapter 3 considers the success of measures to improve attendance up to 1900. Chapter 4 offers a detailed case study of a sample of truants and their families from Coventry in the period 1874-99. Chapters 5 to 7 cover 1900-39 and demonstrate changes in the enforcement of attendance, within the context of growing local government services related to child welfare and the family. Attendance officers' local knowledge of working-class families supported the delivery of child welfare legislation in the period after 1906, including special education, assessment of families for free school meals, assistance with medical treatment and the policing of restrictions on children's street trading. Attendance officers also supervised children deemed at risk of offending, who were committed to institutions. These additions to the enforcement role led increasingly to a remedial, rather than punitive, approach to truancy during the 1920s and 30s. The conclusion returns to contemporary policy issues over truancy and sets in context the historical reasons why it has proved such a long-standing problem for government and schools.

The study determined the overall persistence rate of first-time full-time entrants into a mid-sized private university during the fall semesters 1989 to 1991 to the 2nd year (1990 to 1992). The study compared the retention rate of recipients and nonrecipients of a variety of financial aid programs. Included is a comparison of groups receiving various types of financial assistance and whether or not there are differences between the groups with respect to types of assistance, gender, ethnicity (African American, Hispanic, Anglo), high school grade point average, and national test scores (SAT, ACT). The types of assistance studied were categorized by academic scholarships, university-operated student employment, need-based grants, activity awards, entitlements, and loans. The question of whether renewal, elimination, or reduction in assistance relates to retention was also studied.

Student-athletes often miss class due to travel and competitions (Diersen, 2005; F. Wiseman, personal communication, September 30, 2010; Hosick, 2010; NCAA On-line, 2008; Rhatigan, 1984). Missing class is negatively associated with grades (Park & Kerr, 1990; Romer, 1993; Schmidt, 1983). Therefore, as classroom instruction time is replaced by athletic-related commitments, student-athletes may be negatively affected academically. As technological advancements continue to evolve, it is possible to mitigate the effects of missed class time. One such technology being employed in 2012 is lecture capture. This case study examined the academic effect of lecture capture on student-athletes at Big Time University using a mixed-method approach with an online questionnaire, individual interviews, and a focus group. Findings indicate that 52.7% (n=19) of student-athletes who participated in the questionnaire are accessing recorded lectures, 60% (n=18) reported lecture capture had made learning more enjoyable and 92.9% (n=39) reported that their grades had improved since having had access to recorded lectures. Additionally, participants reported preferring to have class recordings available, even if they choose not to watch them, as they provide a sense of security. Lastly, student-athletes reported to prefer physically being in the classroom and that recorded lectures should only be used as a supplement, not a replacement, for classroom lectures. Themes, implications, and areas for future research are discussed.