<p>Do students tend to do better in classes around noon compared to the same exact class but at like 8AM in the morning?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Such a correlation would be hard to measure considering that students from different years may be different, the professors may teach a class differently, etc.</p>
<p>There’s just not enough information to statistically determine such conclusions.</p>
<p>I agree with excelblue. Sometimes Bio Classes are in the morning, others in the afternoon. You really can not measure this.</p>
<p>There is a correlation for me. </p>
<p>But it’s rather my personal problem than something that can be generalized. I am always sleepy in the early morning and the farther it is from the morning, the more productive I am becoming. Yes, at 11pm, when normal people tend to sleep - I want to read, write and do my homework. </p>
<p>I have tried to change my day schedule many times - nothing works for me. I guess it’s just the way I am. Can’t change my genes, unfortunately.</p>
<p>well if it means anything, I never go to 9 am classes. if not going to class means a lower grade, then maybe…</p>
<p>^Same. I literally cannot make myself go to 9AM classes. Luckily, the class I’m in that’s at 9 is essentially optional. Otherwise I’d be screwed. I’ll probably never sign up for an early class again.</p>
<p>@UDubhopeful</p>
<p>You go to the University of Washington, right? On the “course evaluation catalog” I have noticed a couple of things</p>
<p>1) Less people evaluate a professor/TA if the class is early in the morning compared to the same professor/TA teaching the class at a later time. So, probably less people show up for early classes throughout the quarter.</p>
<p>2) The rating for professors/TAs are either no different or.5/5 lower, at the most, compared to the same professor/TA but at a later time. The ratings for early classes are never better than the later versions.</p>
<p>The sample size might be small, but this what I have noticed.</p>
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Less in number or less in percentage? Beware of absolute numbers - they may reflect a lower enrollment rather than a lower attendance rate. (Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the attendance rates were lower as well.)</p>
<p>My economic instructor has an early morning, early afternoon, and a 5:45pm (the one I’m in) class. He has repeated said that our class as a group grasps the material better and generally score higher on the exams. We also end up well ahead of the other classes due to his ability to cover more material in the same amount of time. This is my 2nd 5:45p class with him, and both semesters have seen the same results according to him. It could also be due to the night classes consisting of primarily older students too though.</p>
<p>Take the earlier classes b/c nobody will show up, they’ll all get bad grades. You will show up, get normal grades, and then the curve just puts you at the top of the class. Seems like a solid plan to me.</p>
<p>I tend to better in the morning classes. The earlier it is, the more focused I am. The later the class, the more my mind wanders.</p>
<p>"Such a correlation would be hard to measure considering that students from different years may be different, the professors may teach a class differently, etc.</p>
<p>There’s just not enough information to statistically determine such conclusions."</p>
<p>Those of you that think there is not enough information to statistically determine such conclusions are completely wrong. This type of correlation would actually be fairly easy to determine, as long as the sample size was large enough and the data points (variables) were accessible.</p>
<p>It’s a fairly simple design. Students in each class are your observation(s). Just record each variable for each observation: class time, grade, class (categorical), and other variables you want to record (gender, student’s GPA, etc). This data could then be fitted into a model (multivariate regression) to determine correlation.</p>
<p>Gotta be honest…probably would have done slightly better in calculus II if it wasn’t at 8:30 in the morning. I actually went to every class, but there were a few when I literally was falling asleep in the middle of class. Of course, being in a later section would have also meant that I got another professor, who is reputed to be better than the one I had, so it’s debatable why it would have ended up that way.</p>