In Kazakhstan, checking students' attendance is one of the important issues for universities, because many universities evaluate students’ attendance and while giving the final grade, professors consider their total number of appearances on classes during the whole semester. This brings to the idea of having some tool to control students’ attendance. Some universities prefer to use paper sheet ...

Objectives: To study the effect of class attendance of medical students on performance in tests. Study design: Descriptive cross-sectional study. Place of Study: Lahore Medical & Dental College (LMDC), Lahore. Duration of study: two weeks in January, 2012 Material and method: Secondary Data was obtained from the end of session yearly record on attendance and test scores in the subject of Commun...

BACKGROUND The attendance mandate for the medical course in Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal, India was increased from 75% to 90% based on the assumption that the mandatory increase will improve the students' performance. AIMS To find out whether there is any correlation between class attendance and academic performance. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was an institution based retrospectiv...

Automated attendance management system using face recognition is a smart way of marking attendance which is more secure and time efficient as compared to already existing attendance systems. In our work we propose an automated attendance management system. This system automatically detects the student when he enters the class room and marks the attendance by recognizing his face. A threshold va...

While the term “school absenteeism” refers to a student’s withdrawal from reach of classroom instruction, we explicitly opt for “class avoidance.” Existing studies on this phenomenon have primarily dealt with unauthorized physical absence class. However, in our contribution, extend scope cognitive absence. The behavior students who are physically present but cognitively disengaged has largely b...