Registration Delay and Student Performance

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Jason Siefken
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8463-6193

Abstract

Tracking the difference between the time a first-year student is allowed to register for a course and the time he or she does register for a course (a student’s registration delay), we notice a negative correlation between registration delay and final grade in a course. The difference between a student who registers within the first two minutes they are allowed to and one who waits three weeks to register is approximately a full GPA point (on a 9 point scale). Registration delay may be a useful factor in helping to identify at-risk students, and should be taken into account as a confounding variable when doing educational studies on multi-section courses.

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Siefken, J. (2017). Registration Delay and Student Performance. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 17(2), 45–52. https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v17i2.20754
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