scholarly journals Online Learning as a Panacea for Dealing with School Truancy

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Francisca N. Nnajiofor ◽  
Joseph C. Onyilagha
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Drivers License ◽  
Bus Services ◽  
School Truancy ◽  
Good Prevention ◽  
Offer Suggestion

<p>School truancy has been identified as one of the causes of students’ low school achievement, leading to school dropout. Although the problem of school truancy is not new, yet, many school authorities or Governments have no rules on how to deal with this problem. In some arears, there is apparently no database or information, and educators are at a loss as to whether school truancy exists, and at what level if it does. There is no coordinated action against school truancy in many school districts. Consequently, each school district takes decision on how it approaches the problem. This study is designed to have a conversation directly with the student clientele and to determine what they know about school truancy, and from their perspective offer suggestion(s) or strategies that would help to reduce or prevent school truancy. Results suggest for a distinction between “school truancy” and “class truancy” in order to help school managers to adequately focus on each group rather than treating “skipping school” and “skipping classes” with the same amount of resources. The study suggests giving incentives to good students, providing adequate school bus services, insisting on “no 12<sup>th</sup> grade, no drivers license”, and putting several classes online would be good prevention strategies. The above excerpt forms the basis of the research results presented in this paper.</p>

Understanding School Truancy: Risk–Need Latent Profiles of Adolescents

Assessment ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 978-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Iverson ◽  
Brian F. French ◽  
Paul S. Strand ◽  
Chad M. Gotch ◽  
Carl McCurley
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Maladaptive Behaviors ◽  
Court System ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Unexcused Absences ◽  
School Truancy

Washington state requires school districts to file court petitions on students with excessive unexcused absences resulting in thousands of youth becoming involved in the court system. Once in the system, decisions are made about the level of risk each youth has for maladaptive behaviors. The Washington Assessment of the Risks and Needs of Students was created to assist youth service providers, courts, and schools to identify an adolescent’s needs for social, emotional, or educational intervention. However, the profile-based decisions advocated for by test developers lack empirical justification. This study employed latent profile analysis to examine risk and needs profiles of adolescents based on the Washington Assessment of the Risks and Needs of Students assessment. Profiles were developed to aid understanding of behaviors associated with school truancy, and examined across outcome variables (e.g., suspensions, arrests) to evaluate evidence in support of predictive claims. Results suggest distinct profiles that differ on important outcomes.

School Bus Routing in Rural School Districts

2008 ◽  
pp. 209-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam R. Thangiah ◽  
Adel Fergany ◽  
Bryan Wilson ◽  
Anthony Pitluga ◽  
William Mennell
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Rural School Districts ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Bus Routing

Reducing Discipline and Safety Issues: A District-Wide Bus-PBIS Initiative

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie T. Goldin ◽  
Sara C. McDaniel
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Positive Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Carry Over

Positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) is a means to proactively address student behavior in all school settings. Misbehavior on the school bus can lead to issues with safety, carry over to school and home, and hinder at-risk students’ academic success. Students’ behavior can be supported on the bus through the implementation of a bus-PBIS framework. School districts can implement PBIS on the bus through establishing leadership, creating a bus-PBIS framework, training, implementation, and monitoring/regeneration.

scholarly journals Safety and security solution for school bus through RFID and GSM technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 804
Author(s):  
Hasmah Mansor ◽  
Tun Mohamad Aqil Mohamad Fadzir ◽  
Teddy Surya Gunawan ◽  
Zuriati Janin
Keyword(s):  
Text Message ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Security System ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Main Technique ◽  
Bus Driver ◽  
Bus Safety ◽  
Bus Services

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">All children throughout the world aged 4 to 17 are going to schools every weekdays. The most common transport used by children is school bus.  In many countries accross the globe, most children uses school bus services to go to school and return back home especially to working parents.  Although safety of their children is always the main concern of all parents especially the young ones, they have to rely on the bus services due to time constraints during working hours. Sometimes parents need to call the bus driver to ensure their children has reached home or school.  This will create inconvenience to bus driver and may lead to other unwanted consequences. Realizing the root of this problem, a school bus safety and security system has been proposed. The school bus safety and security system is a solution based on Short Messaging System that notifies parents if their children have safely arrived at home or school. RFID and GSM technologies are the main technique proposed in this project. RFID is used for several purposes; to identify the children and parents’ contact number, and attendance monitoring through head count system. GSM is used as a commucation platform to inform parents’ on their children’s movement via SMS. Several tests have been conducted to analyse the overall performance of the developed hardware prototype. From the results, it can be concluded that the developed project is successfully identify the children based on their unique ID, send a text message through SMS to parents with required information; and additional feature of attendance checker. The hardware prototype was successfully tested for children’s identification, attendance and SMS notifications to parents. As a consequence, this project could increase the safety and security solution for children travelling with school bus transportation and give parents peace of mind.</span>

Optimizing School Bus Stop Placement in Howard County, Maryland

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Galdi ◽  
Paporn Thebpanya
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Current System ◽  
School Bus ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Statistical Estimates ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Network Analyst ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
State And Local

In the current system, school bus stops in Howard County, Maryland are manually placed along the school bus routes based on safety, cost-efficiency, and many other variables. With such liberal placement, bus stops are sometimes placed unnecessarily. This issue is prevalent in many school districts and often results in needlessly close bus stop proximity. In this study, the authors implemented a GIS-based heuristic to assist school officials in optimizing their districts bus stop placement. They also estimated the proportion of county-wide bus stops that could be eliminated by this approach. Following the constraints determined by State and local guidelines, the ArcGIS Network Analyst Extension was used to identify unnecessary bus stops across the study area. The initial output was re-evaluated by school officials in order to determine if those bus stops would be eliminated. The results indicate that approximately 30% of the existing bus stops were marked as “candidates for elimination” by the GIS process. After a review of these candidates, it was determined that at least 15% of the total school bus stops could be eliminated. Statistical estimates lent credence to the benefit of a re-evaluation of these bus stops. The method developed in this study can easily be replicated. Hence, it may inspire other school systems to exercise the same approach. Additionally, the results provide a gateway for future studies in examining more efficient school bus routes with less travel time, as well as investigating how much the carbon footprint of school bus fleets can be reduced.

Linking Getting to School With Going to School

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Gottfried
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
School Absenteeism ◽  
School Bus ◽  
School Year ◽  
Large Scale Dataset ◽  
Bus Services ◽  
Excessive Absences ◽  
Kindergarten Class

Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners have recently aligned efforts to reduce school absenteeism, particularly during kindergarten when excessive absences are highest out of all elementary grades. Little is known, however, about whether the way in which students get to school might influence if they go to school. To address this gap, this study was the first to address the role of school bus-taking on reducing school absences. Using a national large-scale dataset of children (the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Class of 2010–2011), the findings suggest that children who took the school bus to kindergarten had fewer absent days over the school year and were less likely to be chronically absent compared with children who commuted to school in any other way. Given that many districts are considering cutting or restricting bus services, this study brings to question whether doing so might limit the resources upon which families rely to ensure their children attend school each day. Implications are discussed.

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