The Cost of Cutting Class: Attendance As A Predictor of Success

By Steven E. Gump. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Education

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1. Steven E. Gump
2. Andrew D. Ho
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Citations in the corpus

• Guess who’s (not) coming to class: student attitudes as indicators of attendance (2006, background): “…been shown to be correlated with grades (Van Blerkom, 1992; Wyatt, 1992; Gunn, 1993; Launius, 1997; Friedman et al., 2001; Clump et al., 2003; Gump, 2005), students should be encouraged early in their academic careers to develop positive attitudes towards the importance of class attendance,…”
• Which factors best account for academic success: Those which college students can control or those they cannot? (2008, unknown): “For nearly 80 years, researchers have found that class attendance predicts collegiate performance (Clump, Bauer, & Whiteleather, 2003; Gump, 2005; Jones, 1931; Rose, Hall, Bolen, & Webster, 1996; Shimoff & Catania, 2001).”
• Changing “Course” (2014, background): “…by attendance, a more passive measure of participation, or by metrics such as handraising or commenting, which are arguably more active (Astin, 1999; Gump, 2005; Crombie, Pyke, Silverthorn, Jones, & Piccinin, 2003; Hertenstein, Dallimore, & Platt, 2010; Fassinger, 1995; Randolph, 2007).”