Longrigg, Emma K. (2024) To attend or not to attend, that is the question: Hours worked and student engagement as predictors of student attendance at synchronous classes. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
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Non-attendance at synchronous higher education classes is prevalent. Lower synchronous class attendance is associated with greater time spent in paid employment. Higher levels of synchronous class attendance are correlated with greater student engagement. However, differences between on-campus and online students are not clearly defined in the literature. Additionally, there is a dearth of literature that explores asynchronous (viewing recorded classes) class attendance. Therefore, this study reviewed the primary factors that influence non-attendance at synchronous classes for on-campus and online students. Participants (N = 327) were university students who completed an online survey that collected demographic, educational information, reasons for non-attendance, and evaluated student engagement. A Mann-Whitney U revealed that both on-campus and online students reported “I can access the recordings on StudyDesk” as the most influential reason for non-attendance. Pearson’s correlations showed attendance was significantly and positively correlated with engagement for both on-campus and online students, significantly negatively correlated with hours worked and not correlated with viewing recorded classes for both groups. Multiple regression demonstrated that student engagement was an influential significant predictor of synchronous attendance for on-campus and online students, however, engagement was a significant predictor of viewing recorded classes for on-campus students only. Hours worked was a significant predictor of lower student attendance for on-campus and online students. However, hours worked was not a significant predictor for viewing recorded classes for oncampus or online students. Overall, students reported that accessing recordings on online as the most influential reason for non-attendance, whilst engagement and hours worked were significant predictors for synchronous class attendance for on-campus and online students.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current – Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Wellbeing (1 Jan 2022 -) |
| Supervisors: | Dr Jeffries , Carla |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Psychology) |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2026 03:43 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2026 03:43 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Attendance, non-attendance, online, on-campus, synchronous, asynchronous engagement, hours worked. |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1701 Psychology > 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5203 Clinical and health psychology > 520304 Health psychology |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/53096 |
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