Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 1163-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly D. Robinson ◽  
Monica G. Lee ◽  
Eric Dearing ◽  
Todd Rogers
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Student Attendance ◽  
Early Grades ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Student Absenteeism ◽  
Parental Involvement In Education ◽  
The Impact

Attendance in kindergarten and elementary school robustly predicts student outcomes. Despite this well-documented association, there is little experimental research on how to reduce absenteeism in the early grades. This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment in 10 school districts evaluating the impact of a low-cost, parent-focused intervention on student attendance in grades K–5. The intervention targeted commonly held parental misbeliefs undervaluing the importance of regular K–5 attendance as well as the number of school days their child had missed. The intervention decreased chronic absenteeism by 15%. This study presents the first experimental evidence on how to improve student attendance in grades K–5 at scale and has implications for increasing parental involvement in education.

scholarly journals The Impact of Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukmini Banerji ◽  
James Berry ◽  
Marc Shotland
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Randomized Evaluation ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Math Scores ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Children's Learning

Using a randomized field experiment in India, we evaluate the effectiveness of adult literacy and parental involvement interventions in improving children's learning. Households were assigned to receive either adult literacy (language and math) classes for mothers, training for mothers on how to enhance their children's learning at home, or a combination of the two programs. All three interventions had significant but modest impacts on childrens math scores. The interventions also increased mothers' test scores in both language and math, as well as a range of other outcomes reflecting greater involvement of mothers in their children's education. (JEL I21, J13, J16, O15)

An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Retargeted Advertising: The Role of Frequency and Timing

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navdeep S. Sahni ◽  
Sridhar Narayanan ◽  
Kirthi Kalyanam
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Home Improvement ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Banner Ads ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

In collaboration with an online seller of home-improvement products, the authors conduct a large-scale randomized field experiment to study the effects of retargeted advertising, a form of internet advertising in which banner ads are displayed to users after they visit the advertiser’s website. They find that switching on experimental retargeting causes 14.6% more users to return to the website within four weeks. The impact of retargeting decreases as the time since the consumer first visited the website increases—indeed, 33% of the effect of the first week’s advertising occurs on the first day. Furthermore, the authors find evidence of the existence of complementarities in advertising over time: the effect of advertising in week 2 of the campaign is higher when the user was assigned to a nonzero level of advertising in week 1. The authors discuss mechanisms that can explain their findings and demonstrate a novel low-cost method that can be applied generally to conduct valid online advertising experiments.

Importance of parental involvement in education for children with ADHD

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Power ◽  
J. A. Mautone ◽  
S. L. Soffer ◽  
A. T. Clarke ◽  
S. A. Marshall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Parental Involvement In Education

Computer simulation study about the dependence of amorphous silicon photonic waveguides efficiency on the material quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 30502
Author(s):  
Alessandro Fantoni ◽  
João Costa ◽  
Paulo Lourenço ◽  
Manuela Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Sidewall Roughness ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Fabrication Defects ◽  
The Impact

Amorphous silicon PECVD photonic integrated devices are promising candidates for low cost sensing applications. This manuscript reports a simulation analysis about the impact on the overall efficiency caused by the lithography imperfections in the deposition process. The tolerance to the fabrication defects of a photonic sensor based on surface plasmonic resonance is analysed. The simulations are performed with FDTD and BPM algorithms. The device is a plasmonic interferometer composed by an a-Si:H waveguide covered by a thin gold layer. The sensing analysis is performed by equally splitting the input light into two arms, allowing the sensor to be calibrated by its reference arm. Two different 1 × 2 power splitter configurations are presented: a directional coupler and a multimode interference splitter. The waveguide sidewall roughness is considered as the major negative effect caused by deposition imperfections. The simulation results show that plasmonic effects can be excited in the interferometric waveguide structure, allowing a sensing device with enough sensitivity to support the functioning of a bio sensor for high throughput screening. In addition, the good tolerance to the waveguide wall roughness, points out the PECVD deposition technique as reliable method for the overall sensor system to be produced in a low-cost system. The large area deposition of photonics structures, allowed by the PECVD method, can be explored to design a multiplexed system for analysis of multiple biomarkers to further increase the tolerance to fabrication defects.

Advancing dairy farming profitability through research

2001 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
J.R. Caradus ◽  
D.A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pasture Management ◽  
Nitrogen Fertiliser ◽  
Grass Endophyte ◽  
Forage Species ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Dairy Cow Nutrition ◽  
The Impact

The New Zealand dairy industry recognises that to remain competitive it must continue to invest in research and development. Outcomes from research have ensured year-round provision of low-cost feed from pasture while improving productivity. Some of these advances, discussed in this paper, include the use of white clover in pasture, understanding the impacts of grass endophyte, improved dairy cow nutrition, the use of alternative forage species and nitrogen fertiliser to improve productivity, demonstration of the impact of days-in-milk on profitability, and the use of feed budgeting and appropriate pasture management. Keywords: dairy, profitability, research and development

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