“…Using linear regression models, studies that have examined the effects of class attendance on students' academic performance have considered various time periods to investigate the phenomenon. Specifically, some articles analyse individual courses (Romer, 1993), multiple courses (Maloney & Lally, 1998;Gough et al, 2021), a complete academic year (Moore, 2006;Bijmans & Schakel, 2018), and the entirety of courses in a degree programme within a single academic year (Méndez & Crespo, 2021). However, to the best of our knowledge, we have not found any existing literature investigating the entirety of courses in a degree programme during a single semester.…”