Offering makeup exams: do teachers care ‘what happened’?

Joshua J. Lewer, Colin Corbett, Tanya M. Marcum and Jannett Highfill

Applied Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 30, issue 5, 645-648

Abstract: This paper develops a model of student effort that examines how student effort adjusts when the probability of a missed exam or being allowed to take a makeup exam changes. A survey of 251 college instructors provides several key insights including that instructors’ attitudes towards giving a makeup exam depend on the reason a makeup is needed. Also, in an ‘oversleeping’ scenario, factors that significantly affect instructor willingness to offer a makeup depend on experience, method of course delivery, part-time instructor status, weight of exam in course grade, and attitude towards grade flexibility.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.2009110

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