The Effect of Attendance on Grade for First Year Economics Students in University College Cork

By A. Kirby, B. McElroy. 2003

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The Effects of Attendance on Academic Performance: Panel Data Evidence for Introductory Microeconomics (2006, unknown): “Park and Kerr (1990) found an inverse relationship between students’ attendance and their course grades in a money and banking course over a 4-year period, even after controlling for the effect of unobservable motivation by means of students’ self-reported hours of study and their perceived value of”
The first semester of university life; ‘will I be able to manage it at all?’ (2011, background): “In Ireland, the scholarship of teaching and learning and more policy oriented institutional research have been underdeveloped and as a result there is a paucity of research in this area (but see Kirby and McElroy 2003; Byrne and Flood 2005 and Blaney and Mulkeen 2008).”
Factors influencing success in first-year accounting at a South African university: A comparison between lecturers’ assumptions and students’ perceptions (2009, background): “Some of the factors considered in previous studies include the following: • part time work by students (Kirby & McElroy, 2003; De Lange, Waldmann & Wyatt, 1997); • gender (De Lange et al., 1997); • whether students are repeating the module, compared to first-time enrolments (De Lange et al., 1997;…”
Evaluating the Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement in Urban Elementary and Middle Schools (2010, background): “Of the empirical studies that have directly focused on the relationship between attendance and achievement, most have been conducted at the university level (Devadoss & Foltz, 1996; Durden & Ellis, 1995; Kirby & McElroy, 2003; Marburger, 2001).”
Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment (2010, background): “…student performance 2 See for instance Bratti and Staffolani (2002), Cohn and Johnson (2006), Devadoss and Foltz (1996), Dolton et al. (2003), Durden and Ellis (1995), Kirby and McElroy (2003), Marburger (2001), Park and Kerr (1990), Rodgers (2002), Romer (1993), Schmidt (1983), and Stanca (2006).”
Relationship between Class Attendance and Student Performance (2016, background): “Several previous studies have shown that class attendance is an important predictor of academic outcomes: students who attend more classes earn higher final grades (e.g. Kirby & McElroy, 2003; Moore et al., 2003; Purcell, 2007; Silvestri, 2003).”