Gordon, C., & Vahid, F., & Lysecky, R. (2022, August), Understanding and Promoting Earnest Completion in Online Textbooks  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41622

\bibitem{asee_peer_41622}
  Gordon, C., \& Vahid, F., \& Lysecky, R. (2022, August), \emph{Understanding and Promoting Earnest Completion in Online Textbooks}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41622

Chelsea Gordon, Frank Vahid, and Roman Lysecky.  "Understanding and Promoting Earnest Completion in Online Textbooks".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41622 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_41622}
  Chelsea Gordon, Frank Vahid, and Roman Lysecky.
  "Understanding and Promoting Earnest Completion in Online Textbooks".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41622 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Digital textbooks are becoming more common in college-level computer, engineering, and science courses. For various reasons, some students quickly click on reading activities to earn completion points, without earnestly attempting the activities. We analyzed student earnestness in digital computer science and engineering textbooks across a semester. We found that student earnestness declines significantly as the semester progresses. We also found that earnestness levels at a semester's start have a tremendous impact on earnestness throughout the semester, namely that lower average earnestness at a semester's onset leads to a significantly more rapid decline. For example, one course with an initial 90% earnestness score fell to 76% by week 6, whereas another course with an initial 72% score dropped dramatically to just 32% by week 6. This finding emphasizes the importance of instructors ensuring students recognize the utility of the textbook activities from a course's start, and ensure that the activity workload is reasonable too, to start students with high earnestness. We close with recommendations for encouraging earnest completion early in the semester, which is crucial for maintaining earnest completion throughout the course.

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