出版社：Australian Institutes for Educational Research
摘要：Indigenous students, a subgroup of the Australian student population, produce poorereducational outcomes and continue to produce persistently lower attendance rates thannon-Indigenous peers. Currently, governments collect and monitor student attendance asan indicator of students’ educational achievement and a key performance measure ofschools for attributing school funding, and to inform future educational policy andpractice. Researching urban Indigenous students’ attendance, we sought comparativeattendance data from previous research and government collections. Reaching back 30years, the investigation identified a lack of complete, valid data with verified integrity atall levels of data aggregation, providing researchers with sources of often incomplete,unsuitable, or compromised attendance data. While Australian schools collect students’attendance every school day, the national attendance collection continues to collect andaggregate part-year attendance samples. Improvements in the national attendancecollection are urgently needed from which robust analyses and evaluations can accuratelyinform policy and practice.
