Student Performance Factors in Economics and Economic Education‪.‬

INTRODUCTION As professional college educators we are constantly concerned about the factors that influence student performance in the classroom. In 1991 three professors at two Arkansas Universities, Dr. Larry R. Dale and Dr. Jerry Crawford from Arkansas State University and Mrs. Betty Jones from Henderson State University conducted some research into a variety of factors that we though might influence student behavior. We used two different techniques, a standard regression analysis and a loglinear model to learn the significance of five factors. The characteristics examined included; sex, days absent during the semester, hours accumulated, age, additional courses taken in economics.