tailieunhanh - Academic performance, class attendance and seating location of university students in practical lectures
The question of where students sit in a classroom has been widely studied under different approaches since the beginning of the 20th century. In this study, the data related to the seating location of the students in the computer-aided design practice lecture at the university were recorded and arranged, to analyse their seating preferences, their consistency throughout the course and their relationship with several factors related to academic performance, class attendance, and punctuality. | Journal of Technology and Science Education JOTSE, 2018 – 8(4): 337-345 – Online ISSN: 2013-6374 – Print ISSN: 2014-5349 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, CLASS ATTENDANCE AND SEATING LOCATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN PRACTICAL LECTURE José Manuel Navarro Jover , José Antonio Martínez Ramírez Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) jnavar@, tmartin@ Received December 2017 Accepted April 2018 Abstract The question of where students sit in a classroom has been widely studied under different approaches since the beginning of the 20th century. In this study, the data related to the seating location of the students in the computer-aided design practice lecture at the university were recorded and arranged, to analyse their seating preferences, their consistency throughout the course and their relationship with several factors related to academic performance, class attendance, and punctuality. In general, it was observed that students are reluctant to seat on the first row, and that the most punctual students chose to occupy the places in the first rows, closer to the lecturer (r = , p = ), although this had no impact on academic performance. While the following was indeed correlated with the attendance rate: those students who attended the most class achieved a better academic performance which was reflected in the final mark (r = , p = ). No difference was observed in any aspect between male and female students. Keywords – Student, Seating, Location, Classroom, Performance. ---------1. Introduction Traditionally it has been said that, in general, students who chose to sit at the end of the class are the least gifted, as opposed to those who occupy the first row. Most lectures would agree that it is difficult to connect with all students in an average class (Shernoff, Sannella, Schorr, Sanchez-Wall, Ruzek, Sinha et al., 2017), especially if it is a master class or presentation, but also in the case
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