Identifying the factors that determine academic performance is an essential part of educational research. Existing research indicates that class attendance is a useful predictor of subsequent course achievements. The majority of the literature is, however, based on surveys and self-reports, methods which have well-known systematic biases that lead to limitations on conclusions and generalizabil...

PURPOSE To examine the influence of individual participant, instructor, and group factors on participants' attendance and adherence to community exercise classes for older adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Longitudinal data from 16 instructors, 26 classes, and 193 older participants within those classes (aged 60-100 years) were examined. Data were collected using questionnaires on individual partici...

BACKGROUND Although class attendance is linked to academic performance, questions remain about what determines students' decisions to attend or miss class. AIMS In addition to the constructs of a common decision-making model, the theory of planned behaviour, the present study examined the influence of student role identity and university student (in-group) identification for predicting both t...

Students experiencing difficulty with their studies don’t often identify themselves as students in need of support. The Science Student Success Centre at Carleton University actively seeks out these science students to give them the help they require. One indicator of need is a student’s grades. Another indicator is attendance in class. In this paper, we describe how we use beacon technology to...

Taking Attendance manually is a very tedious job and wastes a lot of time too. The existing biometric attendance also wastes a lot of time as it is not automatic and also requires the involvement of the students too. The work described aims at automating the whole process. The camera installed will take a picture of the whole classroom, followed by detecting individual faces in the image, recog...