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Class Attendance in Undergraduate Courses

Pages 487-494 | Published online: 04 Nov 2012

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Phebe Lam, Sadie R. Pyne, Laura Cutler, Silvia von Kluge & Laszlo A. Erdodi. (2023) Is Showing Up Half the Work? The Relationship among Student Attendance, Engagement and Test Scores. College Teaching 0:0, pages 1-13.
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Nonofo S. Nchinyi, Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole & Gondo Reniko. (2022) Factors Influencing Students’ Academic Performance in Junior Secondary Schools in Maun, Botswana. Africa Education Review 19:2, pages 116-140.
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Perry J. Samson. (2020) Student behaviors in a blended synchronous course. Journal of Geoscience Education 68:4, pages 324-333.
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Lei Tang, Shanshan Li, Emma Auden & Elizabeth Dhuey. (2020) Who benefits from regular class participation?. The Journal of Economic Education 51:3-4, pages 243-256.
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Elisabeth Moores, Gurkiran K. Birdi & Helen E. Higson. (2019) Determinants of university students’ attendance. Educational Research 61:4, pages 371-387.
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Belinda Luke. (2015) What Is Missing? Rethinking Student Absences. Accounting Education 24:6, pages 569-572.
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Caroline Yoon, Greg Oates & Jamie Sneddon. (2014) Undergraduate mathematics students’ reasons for attending live lectures when recordings are available. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 45:2, pages 227-240.
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Jason Snyder, Robert Forbus & Mark Cistulli. (2012) Attendance Policies, Student Attendance, and Instructor Verbal Aggressiveness. Journal of Education for Business 87:3, pages 145-151.
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Abel Nyamapfene. (2010) Does class attendance still matter?. Engineering Education 5:1, pages 64-74.
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Barbara A. Caska & Garry R. Prentice. (2009) Assessments, Appraisals, Attributes and Attendance. The Irish Journal of Psychology 30:3-4, pages 133-145.
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Loretta Newman‐Ford, Karen Fitzgibbon, Stephen Lloyd & Stephen Thomas. (2008) A large‐scale investigation into the relationship between attendance and attainment: a study using an innovative, electronic attendance monitoring system. Studies in Higher Education 33:6, pages 699-717.
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M. Christina Hove & KevinJ. Corcoran. (2008) If You Post It, Will They Come? Lecture Availability in Introductory Psychology. Teaching of Psychology 35:2, pages 91-95.
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Scott Schneberger, Donald L. Amoroso & Antonina Durfee. (2008) Factors That Influence the Performance of Computer-Based Assessments: An Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model. Journal of Computer Information Systems 48:2, pages 74-90.
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Tsui-Fang Lin & Jennjou Chen. (2006) Cumulative class attendance and exam performance. Applied Economics Letters 13:14, pages 937-942.
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StevenE. Gump. (2006) Guess who’s (not) coming to class: student attitudes as indicators of attendance. Educational Studies 32:1, pages 39-46.
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Tracy Zinn, Jason Sikorski, William Buskist, Richard A. Griggs, Alexandra Bujak-Johnson, Derrick L. Proctor, Maureen A. Conard, Joseph R. Ferrari, Vanessa B. Hemovich, W. Brad Johnson, Judy Eaton, Ayse K. Uskul, Robin M. Kowalski, Chad E. Lakey, Samuel Knapp & Leon VandeCreek. (2004) Faculty Forum. Teaching of Psychology 31:4, pages 263-284.
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Thomas M. Brinthaupt, Robert R. Mowrer, Sandy S. Love, Deborah B. Orem, Carolyn R. Ahlers-Schmidt, Charles Burdsal, Haig Kouyoumdjian, Nicholas F. Skinner, Richard A. Griggs, Derrick L. Proctor, Sheila M. Cook, D. W. Rajecki, Shawna L. Anderson, Cynthia L. Battle, Carol A. Marchel, J. Ray Hays, John P. Vincent, Dana S. Dunn, Pam Marek, Andrew N. Christopher, Bonnie J. Walker, Marion A. Eppler, Marsha Ironsmith, W. Burt Thompson, Paul J. Vermette, Shirley A. Wisniewski, Robert V. Levine, Nathanael Fast, Philip Zimbardo, Joseph J. Ryan & Heather A. Tree. (2004) Faculty Forum. Teaching of Psychology 31:2, pages 104-140.
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Kelly A. Rocca . (2004) College student attendance: impact of instructor immediacy and verbal aggression. Communication Education 53:2, pages 185-195.
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Angela Neal-Barnett, Michelle Mitchell, Christina Boeltar, Gary D. Levy, Walt W. Peters, Gregory J. Marchant, Baron Perlman, Lee I. McCann, Merry J. Sleigh, Darren R. Ritzer, Michael B. Casey, David M. Carkenord, Amy S. Badura, C. James Goodwin, Michelle Dingus, Stephanie Petterson, Patrick H. Munley, C. D. Fernald, James R. Cook & Lee M. Stadtlander. (2002) Faculty Forum. Teaching of Psychology 29:1, pages 44-69.
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Eliot Shimoff & A. Charles Catania. (2001) Effects of Recording Attendance on Grades in Introductory Psychology. Teaching of Psychology 28:3, pages 192-195.
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Paula Sachs Wise & Frank E. Fulkerson. (1993) Annotated bibliography on the teaching of psychology: 1992. Teaching of Psychology 20:4, pages 250-259.
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Eva Blondeel, Patricia Everaert & Evelien Opdecam. A little push in the back: nudging students to improve procrastination, class attendance and preparation. Studies in Higher Education 0:0, pages 1-20.
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