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Texas Tech'ECISD partnership finds early attendance patterns, highlights teacher effect
Summary
A phase—one research-practice partnership presented by Texas Tech researchers found chronic absenteeism rose after the pandemic and remains elevated in ECISD; early attendance in the first six weeks strongly predicts yearlong chronic absenteeism, and effective teachers were associated with large reductions in chronic absence risk.
Researchers from Texas Tech presented phase one of a research-practice partnership with Ector County Independent School District analyzing attendance trends, campus practices and early-warning indicators; they recommended continuing to phase the work, adding family and student voices in phase two, and studying teacher and principal practices that appear to reduce chronic absenteeism.
The work matters because ECISD reported a rise in chronic absenteeism after the COVID'19 pandemic and school leaders seek evidence-based steps to restore attendance levels linked to academic outcomes.
Dr. Boyer introduced the Texas Tech team and said the district asked for research to "do something different to move the metric for kids." Jessica Gottlieb, a Texas Tech researcher, described the partnership's three-phase structure and noted the definition of chronic absenteeism the team used: students who miss 10 percent or more of enrolled school days, including excused and unexcused…
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