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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nLinking Student Absenteeism on Different Weekdays to Student  \nAchievement  \nMichael A. Gottfried  \nS. Colby Woods  \nSam K. Peters  \nUniversity of Pennsylvania  \nExtensive research has found that when students miss more school days, they have lower test scores. However, little is known about the ways in which students miss these days—namely how missing different days of the week might link differently to test scores. Having this insight, however, holds important knowledge for building interventions and supporting instruction. In that vein, this research explored whether accruing absences on particular days of the week linked differently to student performance on standardized exams. Relying on school district data for students in elementary school, there were two key findings. First, missing any amount of school is negatively associated with lower achievement. That said, our second finding suggests that missing more Mondays stood out as particularly negative for test score performance. The results were only present with excused absences, highlighting that this issue is about missing school, not disengagement necessarily. The results differed for different student groups, and implications are thus discussed.  \nKeywords: achievement gap, educational policy, elementary schools, correlational analysis, absenteeism; elementary education; absence patterns  \nReseaRch has now shown unequivocally that school absenteeism is closely linked to negative educational outcomes. For instance, students who attend school less frequently are less likely to excel academically, graduate on time, and pursue higher education opportunities (Gershenson et al., 2017; Gottfried, 2009, 2011; Keppens, 2023; Klein et al., 2022; Santibañez & Guarino, 2021; Smerillo et al., 2018) . Frequent absenteeism can disrupt learning processes, hinder mastery of critical content, and lead to long-term negative consequences (Santibañez & Guarino, 2021) . School absenteeism has been established as a significant challenge in education, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic (Gee et al., 2023; Santibañez & Guarino, 2021) . While numerous studies have examined the link between the number of days missed and academic outcomes, this study concentrates on a critical, yet often underexplored, perspective of how absenteeism associates with achievement: the day of the week on which students are absent.  \nUnderstanding the dynamics of absenteeism as distributed across different weekdays can offer valuable insights for educators and policymakers striving to improve student engagement and achievement. More so, understanding if the days of week of absences matters for student achievement is a crucial step for developing targeted interventions that can  \nhelp mitigate the negative effects of missing school. Our study makes headway at this by asking the following research questions:  \n1. Does missing school on one day of the week differently link to student achievement compared to missing school on other days of the week?  \n2. Do these patterns differ by excused versus unexcused absences?  \n3. Do these patterns differ for different student groups?  \nEach research question reflects a new contribution in understanding the negative link between absenteeism and achievement. Regarding the first research question, prior work has examined the timing of absences when it comes to earlier in the school year versus later in the school year (e.g., Gottfried, 2017; Gottfried & Kirksey, 2017; Keppens, 2023), but there has been minimal understanding regarding early in the week versus later in the week. 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