Class attendance and academic achievement of pharmacy students in a European University

Landín, Mariana; Pérez, Jorge

doi:10.1016/j.cptl.2014.09.013

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“…The hypothesis was supported as it was found there was a significant, positive correlation between attendance and both assessment pieces for all but one of the introduction to psychology cohorts. The finding of an association between attendance and academic performance is in line with previous research (e.g., Arulampalam, Naylor, & Smith, 2012;Cohall & Skete, 2012;Landin & Perez, 2015;Launius, 1997;Thatcher et al, 2007) that reported similar findings, despite current availability of online resources. This might be indicative that fundamental concepts are learned through class attendance (in this case in tutorials) where students are provided the opportunity to ask questions regarding the material and to work on the material.…”

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“…These findings provide some indication that physically attending psychology classes may be directly associated with better academic performance. 2012; Arulampalam, Naylor, & Smith, 2012;Dobkin, Gil, & Marion, 2010;Paisley & Paisley, 2004); in engineering (Nyamapfene, 2010); in pharmacy (Landin & Perez, 2015) and in health (Cohall & Skete, 2012).…”

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Does Class Attendance Predict Academic Performance in First Year Psychology Tutorials?

Alexander¹,

Hicks²

2015

IJPS

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Student absenteeism is common across universities. Learning through attending lectures and tutorials is still expected in our technological age, though there are major changes in how information in lectures and tutorials can be transmitted via the use of iLearn and related packages, by video streaming of classes and by online technology generally. Consequently, availability of these supplementary resources and, in general terms, the issue of physical absence from classes, raises the question of whether missing class impacts on student learning. Does it matter if students attend classes or not? The aim of the current study was to assess whether student attendance in tutorials in first year subjects in psychology was associated with academic performance, that is, was attendance linked with improved performance? We took data from tutor held records on attendance and on results for article review assignments and laboratory reports for a total of 383 students who completed introductory psychology courses in classes over the years 2012-2015. The hypothesis that class attendance and performance would be significantly related was supported in 13 of the 14 class relationships examined separately, and, in the class that was the exception the correlation was in the expected direction. These results suggest that attending class continues to have a positive impact on student learning in this technological age. The limitations of the current study are discussed as are implications regarding instructor resource applications and/or compulsory class attendance policies.

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confidence: 81%

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confidence: 99%

Does Class Attendance Predict Academic Performance in First Year Psychology Tutorials?

Alexander¹,

Hicks²

2015

IJPS

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“…Only 0.01% of the variability of final exam grades can be explained by the performance of those students that used i-SIDRA in seminars (r 2 = 0.0001). This may be owing to the fact that final exam performance can be influenced by many factors: class attendance [47], length and number of examinations [48], students' workload [49], difficulty with assessments earlier in the course [50] and understanding the scoring criteria and the composition of the exam [51], among others.…”

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An Empirical Study of Neural Network-Based Audience Response Technology in a Human Anatomy Course for Pharmacy Students

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Objective: This paper presents an empirical study of a formative neural network-based assessment approach by using mobile technology to provide pharmacy students with intelligent diagnostic feedback.Method: An unsupervised learning algorithm was integrated with an audience response system called SIDRA in order to generate states that collect some commonality in responses to questions and add diagnostic feedback for guided learning. A total of 89 pharmacy students enrolled on a Human Anatomy course were taught using two different teaching methods. Forty-four students employed intelligent SIDRA (i-SIDRA), whereas 45 students received the same training but without using i-SIDRA.Results: A statistically significant difference was found between the experimental group (i-SIDRA) and the control group (traditional learning methodology), with T (87) = 6.598, p < 0.001. In four MCQs tests, the difference between the number of correct answers in the first attempt and in the last attempt was also studied. A global effect size of 0.644 was achieved in the meta-analysis carried out. The students expressed satisfaction with the content provided by i-SIDRA and the methodology used during the process of learning anatomy (M=4.59).

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“…Luo chunbin and Yi Bin analyzed the applications and advantages of RFID in traffic and anti-counterfeiting [6]. In addition, the RFID technology has been used in medical [7,8], manufacturing [9], warehouse material management, waste treatment and other fields [10][11][12], and also largely used in campus management, such as book management in the library [13], laboratory equipment management, attendance management [14], digital campus etc. The process of RFID technology identify the target do not need to mechanical or optical contact, artificial interference and intervention between the system and unrecognized target.…”

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Campus Intelligent Safety Supervision System Based on RFID

Chen¹,

Yue²

2017

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-In this paper, for the problem of the security of students in primary and secondary schools, we propose a campus intelligent safety supervision system based on RFID technology. Through the use of RFID technology for non-contact automatic recognition features, the system achieves the goal of supervising the school gate, classroom, danger zone entrance and other places in the primary and secondary schools. Then the information of the acquisition is classified, compared, displayed, alarm, etc. The information is automatically acquired and transmitted in real time, which makes the supervision and management of the school more intelligent. Compared with the existing campus management system, the system can be more accurate access to information in real-time, improve the convenience and effectiveness of safety management, and realize the intelligent supervision and management of the students in primary and secondary schools.Keywords!RFID, smart. Safety, supervision system IntroductionAt present, the application of contact smart card in the campus management is quite mature. In general, people offer for operation with card, but if there are more people to waiting in line, the process will waste a lot of time, and information identification is relatively slow [1]. Students usually need to get the attendance information by name. If there are more students in the class, the attendance takes up a lot of class times between teachers and students. In addition, the teaching attendance of teacher is basically carried out by inspection of school administrators, which result in the waste of manpower. Contact smart card can not timely obtain the distribution of students on campus, and also not avoid some incidents, such as fighting, skipping class. etc. Therefore, a smart campus safety supervision system based on RFID technology is proposed to supervise the all situation [2,3].With the rapid development of hardware and software technology and the strong support of national policies, Harry K. H. Chow etc. studied the application of RFID in logistics management and transportation [4,5], which not only facilitates the management of goods, but also saves a lot of manpower. Luo chunbin and Yi Bin analyzed the applications and advantages of RFID in traffic and anti-counterfeiting [6]. In 152

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Class attendance and academic achievement of pharmacy students in a European University

Cited by 44 publications

References 16 publications

Does Class Attendance Predict Academic Performance in First Year Psychology Tutorials?

Does Class Attendance Predict Academic Performance in First Year Psychology Tutorials?

An Empirical Study of Neural Network-Based Audience Response Technology in a Human Anatomy Course for Pharmacy Students

Campus Intelligent Safety Supervision System Based on RFID

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