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Conference Paper

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

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Presented at the 17th International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE), Belfast, August 2011

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine if a link exists between lecture attendance and examination performance of Level 7, Year 1, Electrical Engineering students at Dublin Institute of Technology in the Electrical Systems subject. Lecture attendance was monitored and analysed over four academic years (2007-8, 2008-9, 2009-10 and 2010-11). The average lecture attendance for students in the three academic years from 2007-10 was 55%, increasing noticeably in the 2009-10 academic year. A statistically significant weakly positive correlation between lecture attendance and examination performance was established. Each 10% increase in student attendance at lectures improved both Module 1 examination and terminal examination performance by approximately 3% on average, a finding similar to that reported in other studies.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D71R6C

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