EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLASS ATTENDANCE AND STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

摘要

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of class attendance on the academic performance in twoprogramming courses. Student involvement plays an important role in the success of a learning process. Andattendance in a class has been used for a long time to measure students' involvement in most high schools anduniversities. Research suggests a strong relevance between students' class attendance and academic performance.Good attendance usually leads to good performance and vice versa. In this study, student’s involvement was directlymeasured with our LMS system. In this two programming courses, students used our online IDE, which is integratedwith the LMS system, so we were able use the number of logins and coding time to measure how much effort astudent put in a course. Based on the findings, we not only confirmed previous study that Class attendance onacademic performance has strong positive impact on academic performance, but also found that students whomissed classes would check the website for scheduled class work less often than those who attended classes. Theresults obtained from this study can be very useful to colleges and universities for drafting attendance policies.