Truancy Reduction Program in Seattle: Evaluating the Problem-Solving Partnership.

摘要

This report is divided into five sections. First, we provide information about the schoolbased partnership project in Seattle and describe the roles of the police department, school, and local evaluator. Second, we present our research questions and methods used in the process and impact evaluation. In section three, we describe the implementation of the truancy reduction project by using the problem-solving model (SARA) as our framework. In section four, we discuss the results of our impact evaluation, demonstrating the effects of the project on students, the school, and police. Finally, in section five, we present conclusions and recommendations regarding future efforts to reduce truancy in middle schools.