Attendance Should Not Be Obligatory

Stephanie Coello

Some professionals agree with attendance rules because they believe that students will score higher grades even though actual research does not support this idea. Attendance is the responsibility of the student not of teachers. Teachers want the students to attend classes, but some students need motivation in order to attend classes. Even though attendance among students increases when it is obligatory, this doesn’t mean that students give their hundred percent in their class. Having obligatory attendance does not assure that there will be an improvement in students grade.

Fist of all, one reason there should be no obligatory attendance is to have a desire to study or a motivation. Having a desire to study has a big influence in an academic goal. If a student is with a positive attitude and have a desire to study or he is motivated, he could succeed academically. Teachers have the power to motivate or discourage the student, making the class attractive and affective or boring and less effective. If a student decides to pay and attend college it could be surer that he could to attend class. If a student is motivated, he could be more insentivated to attend class. Taking off a mandatory attendance could make less stressful the idea of assisting college. Another study in non-attendance college shows that since attendance was voluntary, an educational psychologist concluded that high levels of achievement are directly related to high levels of motivation. The teaching of a professor also motivates student to assist classes. Several studies in an non-attendance class shows that when a teacher makes the student confortable and important with out forgetting their role as teachers, students felt motivated and attendance was almost perfects.

Equally important, a resent analysis between obligatory and non-obligator attendance demonstrate that the college with an obligatory attendance had increase a thirteen percent of students showing up. This could...