Volume 4
Volume 4, Number 99 |
October 18, 2006 |
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Kira L. Barrington
Dena Johnson
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Abstract: There is considerable debate among students as to the usefulness of attending the lab portion of information systems courses. The purpose of this paper is to present evidence of the relationship between lab attendance and the academic performance of students in one computer information systems course over a three-semester period. This relationship was tested using data collected from 118 undergraduate students in the required lab portion of a lower-level computer information systems course. The study analyzed attendance records and course grades from three consecutive semesters of the same course using Spearman’s correlation coefficient. After conducting statistical analyses, results indicate that higher attendance rates in the lab do lead to higher academic performance by students.
Keywords: lab attendance, academic performance, grades, computer information systems
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Recommended Citation: Barrington and Johnson (2006). The Relationship between Lab Attendance and Academic Performance in a Computer Information Systems Course. Information Systems Education Journal, 4 (99). http://isedj.org/4/99/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2005: §3573. ISSN: 1542-7382.)