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

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

“…would be negative. Although, despite caveats that will be discussed later, the internal validity of my study is supported by similar findings in panel data studies provided by Martin and Walker (2006) and Andrietti and Velasco (2013), my findings are still at odds with the results provided by much of the recent literature. Therefore, before drawing any firm conclusion, I should at least try to understand the possible reasons behind this conflicting evidence.…”

“…However, when they account for unobserved student characteristics potentially correlated with absences, the effects tend to be less pronounced and is significant only for high-performing students. Andrietti and Velasco (2013) also exploit variation over courses using matched administrative survey records. Similar to Martin and Walker (2006), their results indicate that the positive effect of attendance found in OLS regressions disappears when timeinvariant fixed effects are removed by means of panel data estimators.…”

Determinants of Student Success in Finance Courses

“…Although student human capital in the form of entrance exam scores, GPAs and analytical abilities has been known to have a positive effect on performance, other factors, such as student inputs in the form of lecture attendance and study time, influence students' academic results as well. The causal effect of study time on performance has been investigated by Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2008), Bonestrønning and Opstad (2012), and Andrietti and Velasco (2015), confirming that effort spent on studying is an important determinant of success. Similarly, Marburger (2001), Chen and Lin (2008), Cohn and Johnson (2006), Stanca (2006), and Dobkin, Gil, and Marion (2010) found that lecture attendance had a positive impact on exam scores.…”

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).…”