Encourage students to attend more SI-PASS sessions rather than altering the scheme itself

Design · All designs
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

Because performance benefits emerged only above an attendance cut point, the authors recommend that support efforts target participation levels. As they state, "any endeavors aimed at improving the support to students should not involve altering the SI-PASS scheme itself but directed towards encouraging students to elevate their level of participation in the weekly sessions." The principle rests on the threshold finding that at least five meetings were needed for significant improvement.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• SI-PASS sessions must be attached to a high-risk course with weekly meetings students can attend repeatedly

Constraints

• The exact threshold likely varies across contexts; the optimal attendance level remains an open question, and the five-meeting cut point was found in one RCT on a statistics course

Target Learners

• first-year university students in high-risk courses

Learning Goals

• academic performance in a high-risk discipline course

Claims

• Si Pass Attendance Threshold Five Meetings [+M]
• Si Pass Attendance Exam Correlation [+M]

Related Designs

Examples

-

Key Sources

• Puttaert, N., Dachet, D., Baye, A., Quertemont, E., Leduc, L., Nyssen, A.-S., & Verpoorten, D. (2025). Effects of SI-PASS on a high-risk course – A randomized controlled trial. Learning and Instruction, 95, 102042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102042

Page metadata

Field	Value
type	design
id	encourage-si-pass-attendance-threshold
title	Encourage students to attend more SI-PASS sessions rather than altering the scheme itself
description	Because performance benefits emerged only above an attendance cut point, the authors recommend that support efforts target participation levels.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-22
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — puttaert-2025

Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.