Factors Influencing Student Non-Attendance at Formal Teaching Sessions

Autor/inn/en	Sloan, D.; Manns, H.; Mellor, A.; Jeffries, M.
Titel	Factors Influencing Student Non-Attendance at Formal Teaching Sessions
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 45 (2020) 11, S.2203-2216 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2019.1599849
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Attendance Patterns; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Grades (Scholastic); Student Motivation; Student Interests; Diseases; Fatigue (Biology); Social Influences; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Notenspiegel; Schulische Motivation; Studieninteresse; Disease; Krankheit; Fatigue; Ermüdung; Sozialer Einfluss; Großbritannien
Abstract	Motivated by falling levels of attendance at classes, this paper explores student reasons for non-attendance within Undergraduate Programmes at a post 1992 UK university. Questionnaires collected demographic profiling information and factors students thought influenced attendance. Closed questions established how important attendance was in influencing grades and how motivated students considered themselves to be. Findings reveal variables including age, gender, level of study and work commitments had no significant impact on reported attendance, levels of interest and motivation were important. Students identified lectures as the session they were least likely to attend and unseen exams the assessment type most likely to encourage attendance. Unprompted reasons for non-attendance included illness, tiredness, socialising; with institutional factors such as the impact of other university work, timetabling and topic. Key interventions include attendance monitoring, marks for attendance, alignment of lecturer style to content delivery, and establishing an explicit link between lecture content and assessment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01