Lecture and Tutorial Attendance and Student Performance in the First Year Economics Course: A Quantile Regression Approach
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Using Ordinary Least Square and Quantile regression, this study found a significant positive relationship between lecture and tutorial attendance and marks in a first year quantitative unit-Introduction to Economic Methods (IEM). The results reveal that students who had studied higher level HSC mathematics (with calculus) were better equipped to undertake IEM. In contrast, students who only studied general mathematics (without calculus) in the HSC were found to be heavily disadvantaged.
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