Attendance Matters! Supporting First Year Students' Success with a Structured Attendance Policy. A Practice Report

Autor/in	Comeford, Lorrie
Titel	Attendance Matters! Supporting First Year Students' Success with a Structured Attendance Policy. A Practice Report
Quelle	In: Student Success, 14 (2023) 1, S.71-75 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Comeford, Lorrie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	College Students; College Freshmen; Attendance; Educational Policy; Student Responsibility; Educational Change; Attendance Patterns; Student Behavior; Grades (Scholastic); Scores; Success + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Studienanfänger; Anwesenheit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Notenspiegel; Erfolg
Abstract	This work reports the effect of a revised attendance policy on attendance and course outcomes for two populations of students: introductory general chemistry students and upper-level chemistry majors. Initially, the attendance policy highlighted students' responsibility for the material covered in class. This was changed to a policy with a specified reduction in the course average for excessive absences. Attendance and final exam scores were tabulated for each group. Implementation of the new policy increased attendance and final exam scores for introductory students, but it had no effect on attendance and final exam scores for upper-level majors. This result suggests that introductory students would benefit from course policies with specific expectations for attendance. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01