Does lecture attendance affect academic performance? Panel data evidence for introductory macroeconomics

Lecture Attendance, Study Time, and Academic Performance: A Panel Data Study

“…Once time-invariant unobservable heterogeneity is controlled for by first differencing, lecture attendance does not have a significant impact on student performance. This finding (at odds with most of the findings in the attendance literature, 4 although similar to the results provided by Martins and Walker (2006) and Andrietti (2014)) is consistent with a view shared by most instructors: better students attend lectures more frequently on average, and because of their inherent ability/motivation, they also receive higher grades. By contrast, our finding that once endogeneity is accounted for, study time has a substantially higher positive impact on performance, is consistent with the findings of Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2008) and Bonesrønning and Opstad (2012), suggesting that study time may be considered an important causal determinant of academic performance whose impact may be seriously underestimated in OLS-proxy regressions.…”

“…By contrast, panel data studies that exploit within-student between-midterm/subject variation provide mixed results. Whereas Cohn and Johnson (2006) and Stanca (2006), among others, found a positive and significant effect of attendance, Arulampalam, Naylor, and Smith (2012) found such an effect only for high-performing students, and Martins and Walker (2006) and Andrietti (2014) found no effect.…”

Predictors of Performance in Introductory Finance: Variables within and beyond the Student’s Control

“…Recent analyses by Andrietti (2014) and Mearman, Pacheco, Webber, Ivlevs and Rahman (2014) provided thorough reviews of the existing literature exploring the relationship between college class www.ccsenet.org/hes…”

Uso de tarjeta universitaria y tecnología móvil para el control de acceso a instalaciones universitarias ysu posterior análisis en términos de rendimiento académico y control de asistencia en clase - [Use of university card and mobile technology to study and improve academic performance and class attendance control]

“…El uso de esta plataforma permitirá automatizar estas tareas y permitirá que ese tiempo pueda ser empleado de otras actividades. Finalmente, para ambos casos los datos podrán además ser analizados y obtener patrones de asistencia a clase dependiendo de distintos factores (fechas, horarios, cercanía a los periodos de exámenes,...) que podrán ser usados para mejorar los procesos educativos y estudiar la correlación existente entre la asistencia a clase y el rendimiento académico tal y como se ha hecho previamente (Andrietti, 2014;Andrietti & Velasco, 2015;Grabe & Christopherson, 2008).…”