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Marshall, Kneale T.; Oliver, Robert M. – 1969
The authors develop a model of undergraduate student attendance that relies on five parameters, one of these being a parameter of total work, w, required to complete the degree. An enrollment forecasting method consistent with these attendance patterns is developed and compared with data for the period, 1961-1966, and a cohort of 2126 and 3298…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Enrollment Trends
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St. Clair, Karen L. – Innovative Higher Education, 1999
Compulsory attendance policies have been instituted in higher education with the expectation that academic achievement will improve, but empirical research on this relationship is equivocal. One theory of motivation posits that students' motivational beliefs, classroom context, and student behaviors are important variables in academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Attendance Patterns, Behavior Patterns
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Caleekal-John, Anuppa; Goodstadt, Michael S. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1983
Available data on Canadian and U.S. student drinking patterns are compared. Among the factors and implications discussed are prevalency and volume of drinking, its relation to other drug use, negative behavioral consequences, student characteristics, attitudes, motivation, and the influence of home, high school, and college environment in…
Descriptors: Age, Alcoholic Beverages, Attendance Patterns, Behavior Patterns
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Boice, Bob – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A five-year study of college classroom incivilities (CI) in large survey courses at a large research university found the most problematic to be teachers displaying aloof, distancing mannerisms; teachers discouraging student involvement with fast-paced lectures; student noisiness and indifference; students coming late, leaving early; and students'…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Body Language