Teaching · Related Services

Find out why before you choose the fix.

Attendance numbers, practical barriers and eight plain observations. The organizer scores the four reasons students avoid school and points the team to the intervention that fits the leading one.

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The attendance hypothesis organizer

One record per student, under a student code. The observations are written for this page. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each student, the absence rate, barriers to fix first, a score for each function of school avoidance and a starting direction for the intervention plan.
Who it is for
School psychologists, social workers, counselors and attendance teams planning support for a student who misses school.
Format
Browser organizer filled in after talking with the student, family and staff. One saved record per student; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
the path from home to school, and what blocks it
Drawn for this page. Absences are a behavior with reasons, and the reasons point to different fixes.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student code.
  2. Enter days enrolled, absences and late arrivals.
  3. Check practical barriers first.
  4. Mark how often each observation is true, from more than one source.
  5. Use the leading function to choose the intervention.

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What the organizer is for

Four functions

Research on school refusal describes four reasons students keep missing school: to avoid situations at school that bring on distress, to escape social or evaluative situations, to get time with a caregiver, and to get more rewarding things outside school. The first two pull a student away from school; the last two pull them toward something else. Each points to a different intervention.

Barriers first

Many absences have practical causes: illness, transportation, housing, caring for family or feeling unsafe. Those need practical fixes, and they are checked before any function is assumed.

What this is not

A screening organizer with observations written for this page. It is not a published scale, has no norms and does not diagnose anxiety or any other condition.

Sources

  1. Kearney, C. A., and Silverman, W. K. (1990), A preliminary analysis of a functional model of assessment and treatment for school refusal behavior, Behavior Modification 14(3).
  2. Kearney, C. A. (2008), School absenteeism and school refusal behavior in youth: a contemporary review, Clinical Psychology Review 28(3).
  3. Attendance Works, chronic absence defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, and its barriers, aversion, disengagement and misconceptions framework.
  4. U.S. Department of Education, Every Student, Every Day: A Community Toolkit to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism (2015).

The example student is made up. The observations are original to this page; scores are for planning, not diagnosis. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.