Empirical Research on the Relationship between Students’ Lecture Attendance and Exam Results: Digital Learning in MS Teams

Christian Tanushev
University of National and World Economy

https://doi.org/10.53656/str2021-6-4-emp

Abstract. This research aims to investigate the relationship between lecture attendance and the achieved grades on the final exams for a sample of 485 students from the professional field of Economics at a Bulgarian university. The observed average lecture attendance is 30%, the correlation coefficient between the variables is 0.62. When using a regression model up to 38.79% of the variation in the grades obtained by students is explained by the factor attendance. The increase in attendance by 1% leads to an elevation in the exam result by 0.0306 units. All results are statistically significant at a significance level even below 1%. This study examines the problem for the first time in the context of online learning, where contact can only be achieved through electronic channels (students and the teacher have never been in live contact) and attendance data is observed by calculating the time in hours and minutes of participation in the MS Teams sessions.
Keywords: lectures attendance; exam results; economics training; online training
JEL classification: A22, I21

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