Influence of Participation and Tardiness to Synchronous Learning Sessions as a Motivation Factor for E-Learning

Abstract

A study was made on the attitudes of 76 students of the Food Technology subjects of the Universidad Nacional de Frontera [1], during the 32 virtual sessions that covered the 2020-I academic semester, Covid 19 world pandemic period; in which it was determined that their own inner motivation, which has no weight in the subject, affects the final grade obtained at the end of the semester. The hypothesis asks whether there is a significant relationship between the independent variable called “Intrinsic attitudes” (Number of participations minus number of tardiness), obtaining three levels of variable: positive, neutral or negative, in comparison with the dependent variable called “Final grade”, with two levels of variable: passed or failed. It was determined that the asymptotic sig. value of the pearson chi square of 0.002 less than 0.05 (5% significance level), means that there is dependence between the two variables.