Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment

Dobkin, Carlos; Gil, Ricard; Marion, Justin

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.09.004

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“…Devadoss and Foltz (1996) used survey responses to obtain information on student effort and motivation. Dobkins, Gil, and Marion (2010) exploited data generated from a mandatory attendance policy for low-scoring college students. Stanca (2006) and Martins and Walker (2006) also examined college student attendance utilizing panel data to try to control for unobserved characteristics correlated with absence, finding that attendance does matter for academic achievement.…”

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Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

Aucejo

Romano

2016

Economics of Education Review

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While instructional time is viewed as crucial to learning, little is known about the effectiveness of reducing absences relative to increasing the number of school days. In this regard, this paper jointly estimates the effect of absences and length of the school calendar on test score performance. Using administrative data from North Carolina public schools, we exploit a state policy that provides variation in the number of days prior to standardized testing and find substantial differences between these effects. Extending the school calendar by ten days increases math and reading test scores by only 0.8% and 0.2% of a standard deviation, respectively; a similar reduction in absences would lead to gains of 5.8% and 3% in math and reading. We perform a number of robustness checks including utilizing u data to instrument for absences, family-year fixed effects, separating excused and unexcused absences, and controlling for a contemporaneous measure of student disengagement. Our results are robust to these alternative specifications. In addition, our findings indicate considerable heterogeneity across student ability, suggesting that targeting absenteeism among low performing students could aid in narrowing current gaps in performance.

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Section: Absencesmentioning

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Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

Aucejo

Romano

2016

Economics of Education Review

174

129

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“…This was also indicated in the research of Launius (1997), Moore et al (2008) and Woodfield et al (2006) who found lack of interest/motivation and a boring class as reasons given for not attending. Introducing compulsory attendance also raises the issue of motivation, and results have been positive but mixed in yielding direct relationships with performance (cf., Aaron, 2012;Dobkin et al, 2010). Students are no longer at school and attending or not attending university classes is seen as their choice.…”

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“…This has important implications for attendance policies in university courses, an area investigated in part also by earlier studies (Aaron, 2012;Cohall & Skeete, 2012;Dobkin, Gil, & Marion, 2010;Moore et al, 2008). Based on the literature presented, it was hypothesised that class attendance in first year psychology tutorials would be significantly associated with academic performance.…”

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“…These findings provide some indication that physically attending psychology classes may be directly associated with better academic performance. 2012; Arulampalam, Naylor, & Smith, 2012;Dobkin, Gil, & Marion, 2010;Paisley & Paisley, 2004); in engineering (Nyamapfene, 2010); in pharmacy (Landin & Perez, 2015) and in health (Cohall & Skete, 2012).…”

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Does Class Attendance Predict Academic Performance in First Year Psychology Tutorials?

Alexander¹,

Hicks²

2015

IJPS

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Student absenteeism is common across universities. Learning through attending lectures and tutorials is still expected in our technological age, though there are major changes in how information in lectures and tutorials can be transmitted via the use of iLearn and related packages, by video streaming of classes and by online technology generally. Consequently, availability of these supplementary resources and, in general terms, the issue of physical absence from classes, raises the question of whether missing class impacts on student learning. Does it matter if students attend classes or not? The aim of the current study was to assess whether student attendance in tutorials in first year subjects in psychology was associated with academic performance, that is, was attendance linked with improved performance? We took data from tutor held records on attendance and on results for article review assignments and laboratory reports for a total of 383 students who completed introductory psychology courses in classes over the years 2012-2015. The hypothesis that class attendance and performance would be significantly related was supported in 13 of the 14 class relationships examined separately, and, in the class that was the exception the correlation was in the expected direction. These results suggest that attending class continues to have a positive impact on student learning in this technological age. The limitations of the current study are discussed as are implications regarding instructor resource applications and/or compulsory class attendance policies.

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“…They are connected to emerging character behaviors such as initiative, respect, integrity and responsibility. Many established studies have shown that student attendance during lectures have positive correlations with their academic performances (Westerman et al, 2011;Dobkin et al, 2010;Chau and Kuo, 2012;Lin, 2011). Students determine commitment, initiative, respect and responsibility when they are in class and on time, at all times.…”

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Smart Attendance System Applying QR Code

2017

May 22-24, 2017 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) ICLTET-2017, ACBES-2017

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Abstract-The cardinal aim of this study to report an automated student attendance system modeled and developed for use at a Vocational school. This paper focuses on developing an application by using a QR code. This system enables us to speed up the process of taking attendance and would save us valuable teaching time. This is planned to help students avoid consequences that may result from poor attendances which will eventually penalized them from sitting their final examination as required by the administrators.

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Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment

Cited by 107 publications

References 11 publications

Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance

Does Class Attendance Predict Academic Performance in First Year Psychology Tutorials?

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