The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is performing a series of experiments related to university students' attendance habits, and their relation with their academic achievement. This website has been created with a triple purpose:

• Presenting the experiments
• Summarizing the results obtained and keeping them up to date
• Making all the data collected and produced public and accesible

Summary of the experiment

We present a statistical analysis of a large experiment carried out in two engineering schools at Universitat Politècnica de València. The main goal of the study is to quantify how the distance of students to the professor affects their marks. In the experiment, we collected and processed data about the exact students’ position in the lecture hall and in the computer lab for two academic years, their changes of position along the course, and their marks in various degrees, courses, and terms, for both lectures and practicals. Our experiments and statistical results provide quantitative data that is analyzed using advanced statistical methods such as ANOVA, the TukeyHSD post-hoc test, the Pearson’s Chi-square test, the binomial regression, and the Mantel test based on Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. We also present several other analyses that study the influence of attendance habits on academic achievement. The results of these analyses answer questions such as: When do students stop attending lectures? Is it better to work alone in the lab or to share the computer with a classmate?

Made in the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)

This experiment and the analysis has been designed and implemented in the computer science labs of the UPV.