School attendance and retention of Indigenous Australian students Issues paper no. 1

From Closing the Gap Clearinghouse

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School attendance and retention of Indigenous Australian students (490KB PDF)

Publication table of contents

Preliminary material

• Summary (HTML)
• Contents

Body section

• Introduction
  • Methodology

• Reasons for non-attendance and causes of the gap
  • Causes of non-attendance
  • Consequences of non-attendance
• Measures of school attendance and retention
  • Attendance data
  • Retention data
• What has been tried?
  • The approach used
  • Scholarships, financial support and support structures
  • ‘Hooks’, incentives and rewards
  • Cultural relevance
  • System-based initiatives
  • School-based initiatives
  • Other
• What works?
  • The nature of evidence
  • Types of research on attendance and retention
  • What does the evidence show?
• Implications for policy and research
  • Policy implications
    Improving the evidence base

  End matter

  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Terminology
  • Acknowledgments