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Impact of Attendance on Student Performance in Environmental Engineering Courses after the End of COVID-19 Intervention: A Case Study
2025 ASEE Southeast Conference
2025 ASEE Southeast Conference (Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA, 03/09/2025–03/11/2025)
03/09/2025
Abstract
During COVID-19 intervention, all the university courses were offered online either asynchronous or synchronous delivery mode. After COVID-19 intervention, most of the universities are trying to go back on face-to-face delivery mode for all levels of courses with the perception that on campus attendance is important for students’ learning performance and campus experience. In this study only the impact of university students’ class attendance on learning performance was investigated. Data from multiple environmental engineering courses taught by the author in a university were used where attendance in classes was not mandatory. All of the courses were junior and senior level courses in engineering programs. Only the data for students who enrolled in the courses, physically attended or not attended classes as well as took all three-midterm exams were used. Cluster analysis and trend analysis methods were used to analyze the data and conclude the findings. Analysis of the data demonstrated no remarkable positive correlation of the students’ learning performance with attendance. In junior level courses more clustered were shown above the 45-degree line compared to senior level courses. Also, in some cases in junior level courses it showed slight positive correlation whereas in senior level courses it showed zero to negative correlation. In terms of weighted average GPA analysis, no statistically significant differences were observed among online, hybrid and F2F delivery modes for all junior and senior level courses. It is obvious that attendance does not have any impact on senior level courses. So, senior level courses can be offered online or hybrid with confidence without losing any student learning.
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- Title
- Impact of Attendance on Student Performance in Environmental Engineering Courses after the End of COVID-19 Intervention
- Publication Details
- 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference (Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA, 03/09/2025–03/11/2025)
- Publisher
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
- Copyright
- © 2025 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015
- Identifiers
- 99381463720506600
- Academic Unit
- Civil Engineering and Construction Management; Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English