Thank God it's Friday: Student Attendance in Classes Just before Weekend

It is generally assumed that attendance level in Friday classes at an undergraduate level is low compared to other days of the week. The purpose of this study is to validate this assumption. A Chi-square analysis was performed on the attendance of all students enrolled in a Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing course in Spring 2017, offered at a state university in Texas. The results indicated that the number of absences in Friday classes was significantly higher than in other classes of the week; the Chi-square value was found to be 83.376 at the level of significance (p-value) of less than 0.0001. Some probable reasons for this student behavior has been reported in the study. A few remedial measures have also been suggested.