The present study examined the associations of sleep patterns with multiple measures of academic achievement of undergraduate university students and tested whether sleep variables emerged as significant predictors of subsequent academic performance when other potential predictors, such as class attendance, time devoted to study, and substance use are considered. A sample of 1654 (55% female) f...

Due to the pandemic, open and flexible learning has become norm for schools universities, where students get lessons through online classes or study modules. Acknowledging difficulties of remote learning, many institutions allowed more flexibility by providing learners with increased choice accessibility suit their conditions. One is making class attendance less mandatory compared pre-pandemic ...

The daily attendance management is a big task in any organization. The image processing based attendance marking system takes the daily attendance of people in industries and educational institutions automatically. The work presented in this paper proposes a method to automatically take the attendance of students in a university. The system makes use of face recognition technology for identifyi...

INTRODUCTION To compare class attendees versus absentees in their ability to retain knowledge during a diagnostic radiology course. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study recruited 146 fourth-year medical students who attended a diagnostic radiology course from February 2004 to June 2004. Eight unit tests were conducted. Questions for each test covered content taught in the prior class. Another exa...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the barrier efficacy and cognitive evaluation theory with regard to predicting exercise attendance. Participants consisted of 189 undergraduates attending not-for-credit fitness classes at a regional comprehensive university in the Midwest. A revised 17-item version of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory was used to assess exercise enjoyment and the thre...

We examine school performance among 83 adolescents at risk for major depression. Negative mood interfered with subjective measures of school performance, including ability to do well in school, homework completion, concentrate in class, interact with peers, and going to class. No significant relationships were found for mood and objective measures of school performance (school attendance, Engli...

Biometric identification technology is being applied to physical and information access control in some workplace with the improvements in the accuracy of biometric devices and declining price. This paper describes a multimodal biometric identification system for time and attendance application called AVAS (Audio-Visual Attendance System). This system takes users’ voice and face characteristics...