Attendance Policies and Student Grades

Abstract

The details described in this case study examine the issues related to attendance policies and how such policies might be legally used to affect student grades. Concepts discussed should cause graduate students in educational administration to reflect on the issues presented from various points of view when the students complete an analysis of the topics discussed. The analytical approaches that can be used in thinking about the student behaviors and resulting administrative actions described in the article include the opportunity to apply the graduate students’ understanding of Bolman and Deal’s four frames as well as use the processes followed to solve problems that identified “expert problem solvers” would use.