<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wei Ha</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liping Ma</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yulian Cao</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Qinxue Feng</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shangcong Bu</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The effects of class attendance on academic performance: Evidence from synchronous courses during Covid-19 at a Chinese research university</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Educational Development</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Academic performance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Class attendance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Online education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Synchronous courses</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059323002286</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">104</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">102952</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Using 13,584 observations of 4772 undergraduate students enrolled in 523 online classes offered synchronously at a research university in China, and using online-learning platform data and administrative data, this paper examines the impacts of class attendance on academic performance. Based on student-level and course-level fixed effects models with a unique set of student-course level control variables, this paper finds class attendance to have a significantly positive impact on academic performance. This effect is larger for low-performing students and smaller for students in courses with larger class sizes. The above findings survive a number of robustness checks, including a bounding technique, restricting sample to compulsory courses and limiting variation in attendance caused by whole day absence.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>