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Student absenteeism: understanding and responding to it

Talking about Teaching session, 6th June 2008,

1.00 – 3.0 p.m., Mithras 228

Literature

FT = full text available; PT = text partly available; ABS = abstract available

General

1 (FT) York College Student Attendance Policy (2006) Head, Tutorial Programmes

2 (FT) ‘Why aren’t they here? Student absenteeism in a further education college’ (1999) Longhurst R J, Journal of Further and Higher Education,23:1,61-80.

3 (FT) ‘It was nothing to do with the university, it was just the people’: the role of social support in the first-year experience of higher education, (2005) Wilcox P, Winn S and Fyvie-Gauld M in Studies in Higher Education, vol.30,no.6,707-722.

4 (PT) ‘Evaluation of factors influencing student class attendance and performance,’ (2008) Devados S and Foltz J, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol.78, no.3, August 1996. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1243268.

5 (ABS) ‘The relationship between attendance at university lectures and examination performance’ (1998) Lally, The Irish journal of education, vol.29,52.

6 (FT) Guess who’s (not) coming to class: student attitudes as indicators of attendance, (2006) Gump, Educational studies, vol.32. issue1,39.

7 (FT) Non Attendance at Lectures: an empirical study (2001) Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University.

8 (FT) ‘Improving the quality and quantity and quality of attendance data to enhance student retention’ (2005) Bowen et.al. Journal of Further and Higher Education.

9 (ABS) Should lectures be compulsory? (2006) Lockwood P, Guppy C and Smyth R in Symposium Proceedings: assessment in science teaching and learning, University of Sydney,178-181.

10 (ABS) ‘A case against compulsory class attendance policies in higher education’ (1999) in Innovative higher education, vol.23,no.3, Springer, Netherlands.

11 (ABS) ‘Medical student attendance at non-compulsory lectures’ (2007) Mattick in Advances in...