Lab Attendance and Academic Performance

International Scholarly Research Network
ISRN Education
Volume 2012, Article ID 364176, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/364176

Research Article
Lab Attendance and Academic Performance
Kirk Adair and Omari H. Swinton
part of economics, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
Correspondence should be addressed to Kirk Adair, kadair@howard.edu
Received 26 bump into 2012; Accepted 2 May 2012
Academic Editors: M. Brynin, K. Capps, M. F. Cerda, and H.-C. Lin
Copyright © 2012 K. Adair and O. H. Swinton. This is an loose access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits free use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
The bene?ts from attention of lectures have been established in the literature. This paper focuses on attending not of the lecture,
but of smaller labs. These labs are 50 proceeding one-day-a-week sessions to emphasis material covered during lecture. Using a 200student Principles of Economics class that covers microeconomics with six di?erent labs, we investigate the e?ect of lab attention
on exam performance by taking into theme individual characteristics. We ?nd that lab attention bene?ts the student in overall
exam performance.

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Introduction
Many studies have been done on absenteeism and how it
a?ects student performance. The convention in the academia
is that poor class attention negatively a?ects ?nal grades.
The traditional approach to university instruction is largely
base on physical attendance and exam performance. Studies
have shown that attendance does matter for academic
performance (see e.g., Durden and Ellis [1], Devadoss and
Foltz [2], Romer [3], Stanca [4], Marburger [5], Dobkin, R.
Gil, and J. Marion [6], and Marburger [7]). This evidence has
led to mandatory attendance in some undergraduate courses.
However, obtaining an accurate measure of attendance is
very di?cult in large classes. As a result, many large...If you want to get a full essay, assure it on our website: Orderessay



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