Age, Gender, and Race as Predictors of Opting for a Midterm Retest: A Statistical Analysis of Online Economics Students

Abstract

The number of students enrolled in online courses continues to grow despite declining overall higher education enrollments. This trend charges educators to focus efforts on improving student outcomes and academic success within distance learning courses. This paper investigates if a midterm exam retest were available to online college students taking introductory principles of economics courses, which students would increase their human capital stock in these distant learning courses and take a retest? We examine, age, race, and gender to examine if these sociodemographic factors affect one’s option to retest.