Conference Session

MASS: Mastery, Assessment and Success of Students

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Liza Boyle, Humboldt State University; Jason Patrick Marcus Reid, Humboldt State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

interestin continued education and jobs in the field of study [1] [2]. The majority of these interactionstypically take place in the classroom, but also happen during office hours and extracurricular ac-tivities.Office hours provide a valuable opportunity for students to ask questions, obtain help for theirspecific situation, get mentoring, and engage with course content with an expert. This activeinteraction with a faculty member can provide valuable learning for students, and previous studieshave found that office hours can improve student course performance. A study by Guerrero andRod found that for each office hour attended students saw a 0.77% increase in their grade evencorrecting for overall GPA, gender, race, and family income [3]. A study