The Influence of Class Participation and Course Project in Final Grade in The Context of Online Teaching

Abstract

The research aimed to study the relationship between class participation, course project, and final grade in the context of online instruction. A correlational research design was selected to be used in the study. The students in the first year in the master's program of a new university compounded the respondents selected to be surveyed in the research. A systematic list of students' participation in the lectures, as well as their academic progress to gather secondary data, was used in the study. At the same time, the random cluster sample of the respondents (N=146) of the bachelor's degree level was used in the research. The research study revealed a high positive correlation between class participation and final grade variables (r = .710), as well as between course project and final grade variables (r = .826. The study showed that the amount of variance of final grade levels explained by class participation is 50.1%, meanwhile, explained by course project points is 68.0%; the other variance may be described by other variables. This shows that class participation and course project points influence strongly the final grade of students' academic performance.