Modeling Students’ Attendance with Respect to Lecturers’ Qualities/Attributes

Abstract

Aim: This research work was conceived and executed to investigate the impact of University lecturers’ attitude inside and outside the lecture rooms on the students’ decision on whether or not to attend their lectures. Study Design: Questionnaires were randomly distributed to students. Place and Duration of study: Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. The study was carried out between November 2016 to April 2017. Methodology: 300 University undergraduate students were sampled. Some basic factors (punctuality, charisma, motivation and so on) were considered as explanatory variables. Students’ attendance was scaled in percentage and the predictors being categorical variables were measured using a Likert scale. The ordinal logistic regression was employed. Results: The result shows that some of the factors significantly affect the students’ attendance. Out of all the 8 (eight) factors only 6(six) are actually statistically significant which are: punctuality, inspiration, eloquence, joviality, intelligence and motivation. Conclusion: The fitted model can be used to predict the different probabilities of all the possible outcomes of any attendance to a certain degree given the conditions of the students involved.