Failing students are predominantly inactive in the first two weeks of the exam period¶
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q2 i? Failing students predominantly did not attempt any exam in week one and about half did nothing in week two; all attempted at least one exam eventually. → Jakub Kuzilek 2023
Evidence¶
Jakub Kuzilek 2023¶
Jakub Kuzilek, Zdenek Zdrahal, Jonas Vaclavek, Viktor Fuglik, Jan Skocilas, Annika Wolff. (2023). First-Year Engineering Students' Strategies for Taking Exams. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-022-00303-4
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Analysis of the failing group's simplified Markov chain (Fig. 4); the article also notes "All students of the failing performance group attempted at least one exam", so no passive-withdrawal group appears.
"students in this performance group predominantly did not attempt any exam in the first week, and approximately half of the students did nothing in the second week"
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Failing students are predominantly inactive in the first two weeks of the exam period |
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Failing students are predominantly inactive in the first two weeks of the exam period |
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