Abstract
It has been suggested that lower grades are obtained by students who attend classes which meet on Saturday morning and that these low grades might be related to the tendency to “cut” Saturday classes. The validity of these arguments was tested by analyzing data from 937 students. There was a significant relationship (p < .05) between cuts and grades in both MWF and TThS classes. Students who cut more classes tended to make lower grades. The mean number of cuts for the MWF classes was 2.32; that for the TThS classes was 2.22. Students in the Saturday classes obtained higher grades (χa = 8.27, p < .05) than the MWF group. Some compensatory mechanisms seemed to be operating to balance out the postulated tendency co “cut” Saturday classes.
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