Student success is an important topic at every level in any university setting, relating to attracting students, retaining students and students graduating timely. Understanding student performance is a complicated topic that has been the focus of many research studies with little distinct conclusion. Past literature demonstrates conflicting results leaving the expectations of this research study open to either direction. This study endeavors to aid in the understanding of factors that affect student success. In this study, a few key factors such as color of exam paper, gender, degree major, employment status, homework grade and position in the classroom are examined for association with the final grade earned by the student. The main focus of this study investigates is the effect of paper color on student exam scores and final grade results in an intermediate accounting class. The additional variables were used as controlling variables to isolate the effect of exam color on final grade. Future research is planned post COVID which has created too many variables to consider effectively and make comparison to the previously gathered data. We do find an effect between the color of exam paper with final grade. In addition, we also find an effect between gender and final grade.
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Exam, Color, Accounting, Gender, Final Grade
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Esther Bunn, Marie Kelly, Kelly Noe. (2022). The Effect Color of Exams has on the Final Grade. American Journal of Education and Information Technology, 6(1), 14-18. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajeit.20220601.13
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