School attendance and retention of Indigenous Australian students

Full publication

• School attendance and retention of Indigenous Australian students (490KB PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material
  • Summary (HTML)
  • Contents
• Body section
  • Introduction
    • Methodology
  • Reasons for non-attendance and causes of the gap
    • Causes of non-attendance
    • Consequences of non-attendance
  • Measures of school attendance and retention
    • Attendance data
    • Retention data
  • What has been tried?
    • The approach used
    • Scholarships, financial support and support structures
    • ‘Hooks’, incentives and rewards
    • Cultural relevance
    • System-based initiatives
    • School-based initiatives
    • Other
  • What works?
    • The nature of evidence
    • Types of research on attendance and retention
    • What does the evidence show?
  • Implications for policy and research
    • Policy implications
    • Improving the evidence base
• End matter
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Terminology
  • Acknowledgments

Further information

Email: closingthegap@aihw.gov.au