Attendance.Evidence.that.Relates.to.Student.Grades

All of us struggle with making time for an appointment, making time for family, scheduling every day life, work and unforeseen demands upon our time.

Time is something that we cannot save, we can only spend our time.

This semester I am teaching a "Hybrid" course in Retailing. According to a study by Guiterrez & Russo "Who Makes the 'A' Grade", a Greater proportion of Hybrid course students made 'A's' versus a full-time traditional face to face course and even more so than 100% online course. It appears that Hybrid course formats (a mix of face to face and internet instruction) is producing more "A's" out of a group of students. The format with the least amount of "A's" is a 100% internet course. This study was published in the International College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal-2004 Vol-1, #3.

Also, when you consider the Guiterrez & Russo study along with the study produced by Cheung & Kan (2002), where Chuen & Kan found that a consistend predictor of student (grades) performance is attendance in class, this would seem to indicate that attendance, at some level, is critical to making the "A" grades.

There are a few other factors involved with making the "A" grades. Clearly attendance is one important factor.

Hope this provides you some help when it comes to scheduling your priorities. I know myself that producing income is important, my hope is that this bit of research may help some students with their choices for attending class.