Attendance policies on university language degrees: exploring attitudes, and measuring relationships with performance and progression

Since the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, universities have been obliged to implement continuous assessment systems that require a high degree of attendance by students. Using recorded data, from year 1 to year 5, of 694 students of a European university, where attendance is mandatory, the main objective of this research is to analyse to what extent absenteeism affects performance across the years of degree study. The investigation found a decreasing effect. In addition, a cluster analysis was done to find out if the compulsory attendance policy impacts all students equally. Three different behavioural styles were found: those who attend regularly, students who manage their number of absences to comply with attendance rules, who are the real targets the policy, and a third group with a high number of absences not affected by the policy. These findings identify the groups of students who benefit most from adequate attendance.

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INTENSIFYING GLOBAL CONCERN: LEGALITY OF GRADED CLASS ATTENDANCE POLICIES

ICERI2016 Proceedings ◽

10.21125/iceri.2016.0650 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Ruth Taylor

Keyword(s):

Class Attendance ◽

Global Concern ◽

Attendance Policies

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Attendance Policies and Student Grades

Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership ◽

10.1177/1555458906297707 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D. Michael Risen

Keyword(s):

Student Grades ◽

Attendance Policies

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The Ethics Of Setting Course Expectations To Manipulate Student Evaluations Of Teaching Effectiveness In Higher Education: An Examination Of The Ethical Dilemmas Created By The Use Of SETEs And A Proposal For Further Study And Analysis

Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) ◽

10.19030/cier.v2i3.1080 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Catherine S. Neal ◽

Teressa Elliott

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Teaching Effectiveness ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Student Evaluations ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Student Evaluations Of Teaching ◽

Ethical Problems ◽

Course Rigor ◽

Overall Evaluation ◽

Attendance Policies

Because student evaluations of teaching effectiveness (SETEs) are an important and widely used tool used in the evaluation and reward systems for faculty members in higher education, a discussion and analysis of the ethical problems that may arise as a result of the conflict created by expectations of performance is provided. This discussion specifically focuses on ethical issues related to setting course expectations and attendance policies to manipulate students’ perceptions of course rigor and the overall evaluation of the course and the instructor.

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